Sökning: "Informal English learning"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 6 avhandlingar innehållade orden Informal English learning.

1. 1. Creative Writers in a Digital Age : Swedish Teenagers’ Insights into their Extramural English Writing and the School Subject of English

   Författare :Paul Morris; Olcay Sert; Thorsten Schröter; Pia Sundqvist; Christina Olin-Scheller; Mälardalens högskola; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Extramural English; Free time English; Out-of-school learning; Informal English learning; L2 English learning; Creative writers; Creative writing; Creativity; Fanfiction; Fan fiction; Motivation; Engagement; Bridging the gap; Writing for pleasure.; Didactics; didaktik;

   Sammanfattning : The digital age has re-shaped the landscape of creative writing. One example of the changes that have taken place is the way in which millions of young people, globally, now write and share stories as online fanfiction. This is an out-of-school leisure pastime that can also help improve language skills (Aragon & Davis, 2019; Black, 2008). LÄS MER

3. 2. ”Completely Headless”. Modification of adjectives in Swedish advanced learners' English

   Författare :Viktoria Börjesson; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Swedish advanced learners; written English; spoken English; degree modification; adjectives; modifiers; reinforcers; attenuators; collocation; learner corpora; learner English; formal register; informal speech; genre awareness; academic writing; comparative study; contrastive interlanguage analysis;

   Sammanfattning : This is a corpus-based, empirical study, which investigates Swedish advanced learners’ written and spoken English with regard to modification of adjectives, both reinforcing (e.g. totally different, very nice) and attenuating (e.g. LÄS MER

4. 3. Language and interaction in online asynchronous communication in university level English courses

   Författare :Julie Skogs; Solveig Granath; Mats Deutschmann; Karlstads universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Discussion forums; asynchronous CMC; net-based learning; interaction; discourse; English; Engelska; Intercultural Studies;

   Sammanfattning : Interaction involves people communicating and reacting to each other. This process is key to the study of discourse, but it is not easy to study systematically how interaction takes place in a specific communicative event, or how it is typically performed over a series of repeated communicative events. LÄS MER

5. 4. Learning Idiomaticity : A Corpus-Based Study of Idiomatic Expressions in Learners' Written Production

   Författare :Maria Wiktorsson; Engelska; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; corpus linguistics; idiom principle; open choice principle; construction grammar; compositionality; conventionalisation; idiom; formulae; collocation; prefab; Swedish learners of English; L2; Idiomaticity; L1; English language and literature; Engelska språk och litteratur ; Linguistics; Lingvistik;

   Sammanfattning : The aim of this study is to investigate how Swedish learners of English (at different levels of proficiency) master idiomaticity in their target language. I argue that idiomaticity can be related to the storage and use of multi-word expressions that are preferred by native speakers. LÄS MER

7. 5. ICT-based Distance Education : A Study of University Students’ Views and Experiences in Early Post-Apartheid South Africa

   Författare :Jared O. Odero; Petros Gougoulakis; Ulf Fredriksson; Stewart Kowalski; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Higher and distance education; South Africa; ICT-based distance education; students; universities; technikons; facilitators lecturers; learning; internationell och jämförande pedagogik; International and Comparative Education;

   Sammanfattning : The overall aim of this study was to investigate how the introduction of ICT into distance education at public institutions of higher learning in South Africa during the early post-apartheid period from 1994 to 2002, provided learning opportunities for students and facilitated the delivery of learning content. More explicitly, it examined and analyzed the views and experiences of students and course facilitators at selected higher education institutions, which provided ICT-based distance education. LÄS MER