Essays about: "written proficiency"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 36 essays containing the words written proficiency.
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1. Writer/Reader Visibility in EFL Writing : A Corpus-based Analysis of Young Swedish Students' Writing Development
University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och lärandeAbstract : This corpus-based study explores writer-reader visibility (WRV) features in the writing by young Swedish learners of English. Specifically, using Petch-Tyson’s (1998) framework, this study examines the use of WRV features in essays written by young Swedish learners in lower and upper secondary school, and compares their use to that of Swedish university-level learners. READ MORE
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2. Exploring the Efficacy of ChatGPT in Generating Requirements: An Experimental Study
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för data- och informationsteknikAbstract : This thesis explores the efficacy of ChatGPT in generating software requirements and compares its performance to human participants through an experimental study. The study addresses three main research questions (RQs), examining how ChatGPT-generated requirements align with human-written requirements, the variation in quality between different versions of ChatGPT using two additional sub-questions that look at improvement in quality from feedback and consistency of quality when the same prompt is queried multiple times, and the capacity of the Content at Scale AI detector in identifying AI-generated requirements. READ MORE
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3. Use of phrasal verbs among Swedish secondary school students : Do patterns and amount of phrasal verb usage correlate with the level of engagement in Extramural English activities?
University essay from Karlstads universitetAbstract : Extramural English (EE) activities are activities in English that students spend time on outside of school. Previous studies have often concluded that EE activities have a positive effect on students’ English proficiency. The phrasal verb is a language feature which often causes problems for learners of English as a second language. READ MORE
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4. Use of Deontic Consequent Clauses with Conditional to and ba in Written Japanese: Effects on Comprehension and Perceived Proficiency
University essay from Lunds universitet/JapanskaAbstract : This study investigates the effects of violating deontic constraints on the Japanese conditional markers to and ba. Via an online survey, native speakers reviewed sentences containing violations of these constraints, evaluating their own ability to understand the sentence and the proficiency of the sentences’ authors. READ MORE
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5. Extramural English and its Impact on Swedish Learners’ Written Proficiency : An Analysis of Complexity, Accuracy and Fluency in Lower Secondary School Writing
University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och lärandeAbstract : English holds a significant status as a lingua franca in Sweden, offering regular contact opportunities for learners through media consumption and entertainment, starting at a young age. Exposure to English outside the walls of the formal language classroom has been extensively studied especially in conjunction with students’ motivation, vocabulary acquisition, and oral proficiency (cf. READ MORE
