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Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 529 avhandlingar innehållade orden English language.

  1. 1. Extramural English Matters Out-of-School English and Its Impact on Swedish Ninth Graders' Oral Proficiency and Vocabulary

    Detta är en avhandling från Karlstad : Karlstad University

    Författare :Pia Sundqvist; Solveig Granath; Hugo Wikström; June Miliander; Magnus Ljung; [2009]
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Extramural English; out-of-school learning; implicit learning; learner language; oral proficiency; oral fluency; second language acquisition; second language learning; ESL; EFL; vocabulary acquisition; assessment; speaking tests; language diary; motivation; self-efficacy; anxiety; speech; oral communication; core vocabulary; peripheral vocabulary; HUMANITIES and RELIGION Languages and linguistics Other Germanic languages English language; HUMANIORA och RELIGIONSVETENSKAP Språkvetenskap Övriga germanska språk Engelska språket; English; Engelska;

    Sammanfattning : The present study examines possible effects of extramural English (EE) on oral proficiency (OP) and vocabulary (VOC). The study is based on data collected from Swedish learners of ESL in grade 9 (aged 15-16; N=80; 36 boys, 44 girls) over a period of one year. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Doing Language Policy A Micro-Interactional Study of Policy Practices in English as a Foreign Language Classes

    Detta är en avhandling från Linköping : Linköping University Electronic Press

    Författare :Alia Amir; Jan Anward; Mathias Broth; Nigel Musk; Arja Piirainen-Marsh; [2013]
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Conversation analysis; ethnomethodology; language policy; practiced language policy; language policing; classroom discourse; EFL; TEFL; codeswitching; Samtalsanalys; etnometodologi; språkpolitik; language policing; klassrumsinteraktion; engelskundervisning; kodväxling;

    Sammanfattning : This study investigates foreign language classroom talk and micro-level language policy-in-process from an ethnomethodological conversation analytic perspective. The study is based on 20 hours of video recordings from 20 lessons in an English as a Foreign Language classroom (EFL) in grades 8 and 9 of an international compulsory school in Sweden between the years 2007 and 2010. LÄS MER

  4. 3. English Hemspråk Language in Interaction in English Mother Tongue Instruction in Sweden

    Detta är en avhandling från Linköping : Linköping University Electronic Press

    Författare :Kirsten Stoewer; Jakob Cromdal; Nigel John Musk; Wei Li; [2018]
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Mother tongue instruction; English as a heritage language; conversation analysis; classroom interaction; bilingual interaction; vocabulary teaching; language alternation; Modersmålsundervisning; engelska som modersmål; samtalsanalys; klassrumsinteraktion; tvåspråkig interaktion; ordförråd i undervisning; kodväxling;

    Sammanfattning : The thesis investigates teacher-student interaction in English mother tongue instruction (MTI), offered within mainstream education to English heritage language students in Sweden. In particular, it examines the type of language work that was in focus during the lessons and the ways teacher and students engaged in the language work in situ. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Technology, Language and Thought Extensions of Meaning in the English Lexicon

    Detta är en avhandling från Luleå : Luleå tekniska universitet

    Författare :Marlene Johansson Falck; Ulf Magnusson; Dirk Geeraerts; [2005]
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; cognitive linguistics; cognitive tools; language; English; sense development; meaning extension; thought; metaphors; metonymies; scaffoldings; entrenchment; technology; electricity; steam engines; motor vehicles; roads; ways; HUMANITIES and RELIGION Languages and linguistics; HUMANIORA och RELIGIONSVETENSKAP Språkvetenskap; English; engelska;

    Sammanfattning : In this thesis, the relationship between technological innovation and the development of language and thought is analysed. For this purpose, three different fields of technology are investigated: 1) the steam engine, 2) electricity, and 3) motor vehicles, roads and ways. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Apologising in British English

    Detta är en avhandling från Umeå : Moderna språk

    Författare :Mats Deutschmann; Patricia Poussa; Terttu Nevalainen; [2003]
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English language; apology; speech act; politeness; Brown Levinson; power; solidarity; sociolinguistic variation; pragmatics; BNC; corpus linguistics; British English; Engelska; HUMANITIES and RELIGION Languages and linguistics Other Germanic languages English language; HUMANIORA och RELIGIONSVETENSKAP Språkvetenskap Övriga germanska språk Engelska språket; engelska; English;

    Sammanfattning : The thesis explores the form, function and sociolinguistic distribution of explicit apologies in the spoken part of the British National Corpus. The sub-corpus used for the study comprises a spoken text mass of about five million words and represents dialogue produced by more than 1700 speakers, acting in a number of different conversational settings. LÄS MER