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1. 6. Language as a Leading Light to Business Cultural Insight : A Study on Expatriates' Intercultural Communication in Central and Eastern Europe

   Författare :Kjell Ljungbo; Björn Bjerke; Susanne Tietze; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Language; multilingualism; culture; intercultural communication; business; expatriate; Central and Eastern Europe; cultural significance structure; business flower; hermeneutics; ideal type; export; foreign language skills; language competence; Sweden; Business studies; Företagsekonomi; företagsekonomi; Business Administration;

   Sammanfattning : Language competence is decisively important in international business and could increase efficacy, efficiency, sales and profits. Language is an underresearched area in business studies though language constitutes management and the managers building structures, processes, cultures and personalities being the most vital working tool to get things done and make them understandable. LÄS MER

3. 7. Unpacking dominant discourses in higher education language policy : A critical study of language policy in Swedish higher education

   Författare :Susanne Strömberg Jämsvi; Högskolan i Borås; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; higher education; language policy; internationalisation; critical discourse analysis; systemic functional grammar; Swedish; English; language; Lärarutbildning och pedagogisk yrkesverksamhet; Teacher Education and Education Work; higher education; language policy; internationalisation; critical discourse analysis; systemic functional grammar; Swedish; English; language;

   Sammanfattning : The overall purpose of the thesis is to investigate dominant discourses operating in the changing of HE concerning questions of language policy. It has been studied at a national level, analysing reports and government bills, and at an institutional level, analysing university language policy, taking Sweden as an example. LÄS MER

4. 8. L'alternance codique dans l'enseignement du FLE : Étude quantitative et qualitative de la production orale d'interlocuteurs suédophones en classe de lycée

   Författare :Joakim Stoltz; Eva Larsson Ringqvist; Jean-Georges Plathner; Stefan Sellbjer; Marianne Molander Beyer; Linnéuniversitetet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Code-switching; language teaching and learning; French; modern languages; French as a foreign language; classroom research; Alternance codique; classe de langue étrangère; francais langue étrangère; acquisition; apprentissage; expression orale; Kodväxling; språkundervisning; franska; främmande språk; moderna språk; språkdidaktik; French language; Franska språket; Teaching and learning in French as a second language; Franska med didaktisk inriktning; Teaching and learning in French as a second language; Franska med didaktisk inriktning;

   Sammanfattning : The aim of the present study is, firstly, to investigate the amount of Swedish and French that is produced by teachers and students in the foreign language classroom and, secondly, to examine in which situations the interlocutors code-switch and for what purposes the two languages are used. The study is based on empirical data consisting of audio recordings of interactions taking place in two different classrooms in Sweden. LÄS MER

5. 9. Learning of definiteness in Belarusian students of Swedish as a foreign language

   Författare :Anders Agebjörn; Åsa Wengelin; Micheal Sharwood Smith; University of Gothenburg; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; second-language acquisition; third-language acquisition; Russian; English; Swedish; definiteness; noun phrase; implicit and explicit knowledge; cross-linguistic influence; language-learning aptitude; complexity; input frequency;

   Sammanfattning : Through a series of studies, this thesis investigates the learning of definiteness in Russian-speaking students of Swedish. A communicative oral-production task elicited modified and non-modified noun phrases in indefinite and definite contexts. LÄS MER

7. 10. Language and Literacy : Some fundamental issues in research on reading and writing

   Författare :Per Henning Uppstad; Allmän språkvetenskap; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Specialdidaktik; Research methodology in science; Forskningsmetodik; phoneme; Special didactics; Tillämpad och experimentell psykologi; Applied and experimental psychology; språktypologi; typology; Jämförande lingvistik; Comparative linguistics; sociolingvistik; Tillämpad lingvistik; undervisning i främmande språk; literacy; phonology; dyslexia; writing; written language; foreign languages teaching; Applied linguistics; fonologi; Fonetik; Phonetics; Språk- och litteraturvetenskap; Philology and literature; Filosofi; Philosophy; Språkinlärning; Language learning; reading; sociolinguistics;

   Sammanfattning : Mainstream research on reading and writing is based on the assumption, common in modern linguistics, that spoken language is primary to written language in most important respects. Unfortunately, the conceptual framework for the study of language and 'literacy' (encompassing both reading and writing skills) is built around this assumption. LÄS MER