Search for dissertations about: "english course"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 43 swedish dissertations containing the words english course.

  2. 1. The Relationship among Vocabulary Knowledge, Academic Achievement and the Lexical Richness in Writing in Swedish University Students of English

    Author : Zakaria Lemmouh; Philip Shaw; Britt Erman; Tess Fitzpatrick; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; vocabulary knowledge; depth; receptive size; productive size; Swedish university students; lexical richness; take-home essays; course grades; learners; Linguistics; Lingvistik; English language; Engelska språket; English; engelska;

    Abstract : The main aims of the thesis are: to explore the development of Swedish university students’ vocabulary knowledge, size and depth and vocabulary use (i.e. lexical richness) in their written output, to examine the relationship between these, their relationship to examination grades, and to investigate how these relationships develop over time. READ MORE

  4. 2. Clefts in English and Swedish: A contrastive study of IT-clefts and WH-clefts in original texts and translations

    Author : Mats Johansson; Engelska; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Engelska språk och litteratur ; English language and literature; information structure; ground; focus; discourse topic; topic; theme; discourse; fronting; wh-clefts; it-clefts; pseudo-cleft constructions; cleft constructions; bidirectional translation corpus; translation; corpus linguistics; contrastive linguistics; Swedish; English; Scandinavian languages and literature; Nordiska språk språk och litteratur ; Linguistics; Lingvistik;

    Abstract : This study investigates the use of cleft constructions in English and Swedish on the basis of a bidirectional translation corpus consisting of original English and Swedish texts and their translations into the other language. This design minimizes the problems inherent in corpora of original texts alone, viz. READ MORE

  5. 3. SPEED and TIME in the event modifier lexemes slow, fast and quick : A cognitive perspective

    Author : Roy Liddle; Carita Paradis; Eva Klingvall; Linnéuniversitetet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English language; Engelska språket; Engelsk språkvetenskap; English;

    Abstract : In this thesis I examine the event modifier lexemes slow, fast and quick and the events they modify. A number of observations made of the use of these modifiers cannot be explained by existing event typologies. READ MORE

  6. 4. English immersion in Sweden : a case study of Röllingby High School, 1987-1989

    Author : Lisa Washburn; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Andraspråk; Språkinlärning; Språkundervisning; Tvåspråkighet; undervisning; Gymnasieskolan;

    Abstract : This study reports on a two-year late immersion program with English as the target language which took place from 1987-1989 at Röllinge high school. The project was modelled on similiar late immersion programs in Canada with French as the language of instruction. READ MORE

  7. 5. Peer Review Practices of L2 Doctoral Students in the Natural Sciences

    Author : Karyn Sandström; Eva Lindgren; Isa Janke; Christiane Donahue; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; peer review; second language writing; genre; research articles; discourse communities; natural sciences; doctoral students; mediation; language teaching and learning; språkdidaktik; engelska; English;

    Abstract : Writing research articles in English is a common requirement in doctoral studies in the natural sciences; however, learning to write the research article genre is challenging, particularly in a foreign language (L2). A potential resource for learning the RA genre is giving and receiving peer review. READ MORE