Sökning: "low-frequency vocabulary"

Hittade 3 avhandlingar innehållade orden low-frequency vocabulary.

  1. 1. Room for Improvement? : A comparative study of Swedish learners’ free written production in English in the foreign language classroom and in immersion education

    Författare :Marika Kjellén Simes; Solveig Granath; Philip Shaw; Karlstads universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Immersion education; CLIL; International Baccalaureate; advanced L2 learners; upper secondary school; L2 learning; L2 acquisition; free written production; low-frequency vocabulary; tense shift; motivation; mastery orientation; intrinsic motivation; sociocultural attitudes; English language; Engelska språket; English; Engelska;

    Sammanfattning : The present study examines the effects of immersion education on the English of two groups of advanced Swedish learners at upper secondary school. In immersion education, or CLIL, subject content is taught through a second language as a means of enhancing target language competence. LÄS MER

  3. 2. De naturvetenskapliga ämnesspråken : De naturvetenskapliga uppgifterna i och elevers resultat från TIMSS 2011 år 8

    Författare :Tomas Persson; Caroline Liberg; Åsa af Geijerstam; Jonas Almqvist; Maria Andrée; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; science education; scientific language; assessment; readability formulas; student achievement; vocabulary; systemic functional linguistics; corpus linguistics; student achievement; Curriculum Studies; Didaktik;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis examines the scientific language in different subjects by analysing all grade 8 science items from TIMSS 2011, using four characteristic meaning dimensions of scientific language – Packing, Precision and Presentation of information, and the level of Personification in a text. The results, as well as results from established readability measures, are correlated with test performances of different student groups. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Att synliggöra vokabulär. En kvantitativ studie av gymnasieelevers skrivuppgifter på svenska inom CLISS-projektets ram

    Författare :Elisabeth Ohlsson; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Swedish academic language proficiency; students’ texts; word categories; nominalizations; verbs in passive tense; quantitative measures; CLIL and non-CLIL;

    Sammanfattning : This licentiate thesis describes the investigation of students’ texts written in L1, by CLIL and non-CLIL students participating in the CLISS-project during their three-year Upper Secondary School period, 2011-2014. The thesis focuses on the academic language proficiency in Swedish, where the practices of certain linguistic features characterizing academic texts are investigated. LÄS MER