Essays about: "thesis for english learning"
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1. ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY FOR PRIMARY STUDENTS IN ENGLISH LEARNING AT HOME
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för pedagogik, kommunikation och lärandeAbstract : Purpose: The aim of this study is to explore the possibilities and challenges of the assistive technology for primary school students in English learning and examine what becomes significant at home English literacy practices mediated by digital tools. The study also looks into the possibilities and challenges of technologies for EFL learning by investigating the problem of EFL learning for primary children in China. READ MORE
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2. Reviewing the Effects of Explicit and Implicit Grammar Instruction in Second Language Acquisition : A Literature Review
University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för kultur och samhälleAbstract : The syllabus for English 5 in Swedish upper secondary school has a strong communicative focus, and grammar is only explicitly mentioned once throughout the syllabus. This raised my interest about the role and importance of explicit grammar teaching in Swedish upper secondary schools. READ MORE
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3. Head-to-head Transfer Learning Comparisons made Possible : A Comparative Study of Transfer Learning Methods for Neural Machine Translation of the Baltic Languages
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologiAbstract : The struggle of training adequate MT models using data-hungry NMT frameworks for low-resource language pairs has created a need to alleviate the scarcity of sufficiently large parallel corpora. Different transfer learning methods have been introduced as possible solutions to this problem, where a new model for a target task is initialized using parameters learned from some other high-resource task. READ MORE
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4. Punctuation Restoration as Post-processing Step for Swedish Language Automatic Speech Recognition
University essay from Luleå tekniska universitet/Institutionen för system- och rymdteknikAbstract : This thesis focuses on the Swedish language, where punctuation restoration, especially as a postprocessing step for the output of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) applications, needs furtherresearch. I have collaborated with NewsMachine AB, a company that provides large-scale mediamonitoring services for its clients, for which it employs ASR technology to convert spoken contentinto text. READ MORE
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5. A thematic analysis of Swedish upper secondary EFL teachers’ cognitions about and reflections on written feedback
University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och lärandeAbstract : To gain a deeper understanding of English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) teachers’ knowledge, thoughts, and beliefs about written feedback (WF), this thesis explored four Swedish upper secondary school EFL teachers’ cognitions about WF, the sources of their cognitions about WF, and ways in which their cognitions about WF are reflected in their actual feedback practices. To carry out this exploratory investigation, the study made use of semi-structured interviews, sample student texts with teacher WF, and stimulated recall interviews. READ MORE
