Search for dissertations about: "multilingual learning"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 25 swedish dissertations containing the words multilingual learning.

  2. 1. Nurturing a heritage language : Language-centered practices in mother-child interactions in multilingual families

    Author : Olga Abreu Fernandes; Ann-Carita Evaldsson; Helen Melander Bowden; Mathew Burdelski; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; language-centered practices; language learning environments; multilingual children; family interaction; family language policy; heritage language maintenance; language socialization; bilingual literacy; multimodal interactional analysis; Russian; Pedagogik; Education; Linguistics; Lingvistik;

    Abstract : Situated within research on language socialization and family language policy, this thesis explores how young children (2–4 years old) learn their heritage language in multilingual, transnational families, and how multilingualism becomes an integral part of family life. It draws on video-ethnographic fieldwork in three bi/multilingual families in Sweden with preschool-aged children where the mothers speak Russian and the parents aspire to raise children multilingually. READ MORE

  4. 2. Learning aspect in Italian as a third language : Transfer patterns among multilingual learners in the Swedish context

    Author : Francesco Vallerossa; Camilla Bardel; Anna Bergström; Anna Gudmundson; Llorenç Comajoan-Colomé; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; conceptual linguistic transfer; L3 Italian; non- prototypical associations; Romance; tense-aspect; third language acquisition; språkdidaktik; Language Education;

    Abstract : This thesis explores the impact of previously acquired or learned background languages (BL) on the learning of Italian as a third language (L3) among undergraduate students in the Swedish context. Focusing on the learning of past tense-aspect (TA) inflectional categories in Italian, the thesis investigates the influence of Swedish, English and Romance languages, French or Spanish, in light of four factors. READ MORE

  5. 3. Information and Communication Technology in Teacher Education : Thinking and learning in computer‐supported social practice

    Author : Evode Mukama; Sven Andersson; Gunilla Jedeskog; Ingrid Andersson; Roger Säljö; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Collaborative learning; critical reflection; ICT; learning conditions; mediating tool; multilingual setting; Rwanda; teacher education; Education; Pedagogik;

    Abstract : The aim of this thesis is to investigate how new knowledge can be developed in computer-supported social practice. Participants were selected from newly qualified secondary school teachers and student teachers at a higher education institution in Rwanda. READ MORE

  6. 4. Snakes and Ladders : Developmental Aspects of Lexical-Conceptual Relationships in the Multilingual Mental Lexicon

    Author : Lari-Valtteri Suhonen; Språkinlärning; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; third language acquisition; cross-linguistic influence; mental lexicon; multilingualism; psychotypology; L3; attrition; second language acquisition; SLA; TLA; transfer; concept; cognitive control; working memory; CLI; multidirectional; multilingual mental lexicon; MML; acquisition; learning; translation ambiguity; introspection; longitudinal;

    Abstract : One phenomenon causing issues for language learners in the form of cross-linguistic influence (CLI) is translation ambiguity (Eddington & Tokowicz, 2013). Translation ambiguity refers to a situation where word meanings are different in a speaker’s languages. READ MORE

  7. 5. Predicting Linguistic Structure with Incomplete and Cross-Lingual Supervision

    Author : Oscar Täckström; Joakim Nivre; Jussi Karlgren; Ryan McDonald; Hal Daumé III; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; linguistic structure prediction; structured prediction; latent-variable model; semi-supervised learning; multilingual learning; cross-lingual learning; indirect supervision; partial supervision; ambiguous supervision; part-of-speech tagging; dependency parsing; named-entity recognition; sentiment analysis; Computational Linguistics; Datorlingvistik;

    Abstract : Contemporary approaches to natural language processing are predominantly based on statistical machine learning from large amounts of text, which has been manually annotated with the linguistic structure of interest. However, such complete supervision is currently only available for the world's major languages, in a limited number of domains and for a limited range of tasks. READ MORE