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Visar resultat 11 - 15 av 35 avhandlingar innehållade orden communicative language ability.

  1. 11. Language Subject Ideology: The Politics of Representation in Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse, Djuna Barnes's Nightwood and Gertrude Stein's Lucy Church Amiably

    Författare :Petra Ragnerstam; Genusvetenskapliga institutionen; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; literature criticism; General and comparative literature; politics; aesthetics; feminism; language philosophy; literary theory; critical theory; realism; postmodernism; modernism; 20th century novels; Gertrude Stein; Lucy Church Amiably; Djuna Barnes; Nightwood; Virginia Woolf; To the Lighthouse; Allmän och jämförande litteratur; litteraturkritik; litteraturteori; English language and literature; Engelska språk och litteratur ;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation investigates the relation between aesthetics and politics by interpreting three experimental novels by Virginia Woolf, Djuna Barnes and Gertrude Stein. By theorizing the relation between language, subject, voice and ideology it questions the autonomous subject as a ground for political action and criticality. LÄS MER

  3. 12. Interkulturell förståelse i engelskundervisning - en möjlighet

    Författare :Ulla Lundgren; Gunilla Svingby; Aud Marit Simensen; Utbildningsvetenskap; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; critical cultural awareness; citizenship education; curriculum theory; national guidelines; language teachers; intercultural communicative competence; Intercultural understanding; culture in foreign language teaching and learning; Pedagogy and didactics; Pedagogik; didaktik; critical cultural awareness.; citizenship education; curriculum theory; national guidelines; language teachers; intercultural communicative competence; Intercultural understanding; culture in foreign language teaching and learning; Pedagogy and didactics; Pedagogik; didaktik;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of this study is to examine the prospects of developing intercultural understanding through English as a foreign language (EFL) education in the Swedish comprehensive school. This overall aim is split into two subordinate aims: (1) to analyse and problematize the intercultural dimension of EFL as three discourses, research discourse, authority discourse and teacher discourse; (2) to relate the above discourses to each other in order to reveal a space for the interpretation of culture teaching and learning culture in EFL. LÄS MER

  4. 13. Swedish School-leaving Students' Oral Proficiency in English : Grading of Production and Analysis of Performance

    Författare :Stellan Sundh; Merja Kytö; Torsten Lindblad; Sauli Takala; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Linguistics; second language learning; oral testing; rating criteria; oral proficiency; grading spoken English; student production; validity; reliability; 19-year-old Swedish learners; Lingvistik; Linguistics; Lingvistik; English; Engelska;

    Sammanfattning : This study deals with the testing and grading of Swedish school leaving students’ oral proficiency in English, and with certain aspects of these students’ linguistic competence. The analyses and results are based on material drawn from an assessment project carried out at Gothenburg University in 1993. LÄS MER

  5. 14. Facilitators of communication and the development of autism : From responsiveness to basic communicative cues, to emerging pragmatic language use

    Författare :Maja Rudling; Terje Falck-Ytter; Pär Nyström; Courtenay Norbury; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Autism Spectrum Disorder; Communication; Auditory responsiveness; Direct gaze; Pragmatics; Pupillometry; Live eye tracking; Infant siblings; Developmental Psychology; Psychology; Psykologi;

    Sammanfattning : When we communicate with others, we use a variety of abilities to facilitate and enable that communication. These abilities range from being responsive to others’ communicative cues to making one’s own communication more functional. Such facilitators of communication has been suggested as atypical in the development of autism. LÄS MER

  7. 15. Competencia pragmática en aprendices universitarios de EL2 : Los efectos de la instrucción pragmática y la proficiencia general en el desempeño escrito de peticiones y reclamos en el correo electrónico

    Författare :Jenny Morales Ruiz; Maria Bernal; Fanny Forsberg Lundell; Júlia Barón; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; L2 pragmatic competence; complaints; requests; pragmatic instruction; language proficiency; email discourse; TSLT; external modifiers; pragmatic-complexity; Spanish L2 learners; Competencia pragmática L2; reclamos; peticiones; instrucción pragmática; proficiencia general; correo electrónico; ELAT; complejidad pragmática; aprendices EL2; romanska språk med inriktning mot spanska; Romance Languages; Specialisation in Spanish;

    Sammanfattning : The present thesis lies at the intersection of L2 pragmatics, Task-supported language teaching (TSLT), and the study of L2 email discourse. It explores L2 pragmatic development in the written production of Spanish university students in Sweden. LÄS MER