Search for dissertations about: "russian as foreign language"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 swedish dissertations containing the words russian as foreign language.

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

    Author : Anders Agebjörn; Åsa Wengelin; Micheal Sharwood Smith; University of Gothenburg; []
    Keywords : 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;

    Abstract : 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. READ MORE

  2. 2. Learning of Definiteness by Belarusian Students of Swedish as a Foreign Language : Inlärning av bestämdhet hos svenskstuderande i Belarus

    Author : Anders Agebjörn; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : 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;

    Abstract : 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. READ MORE

  3. 3. Constructing a Post-Soviet International Political Reality : Russian Foreign Policy Towards the Newly Independent States 1990-95

    Author : Johan Matz; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Political science; Russia; Russian foreign policy; foreign policy analysis; bureaucratic politics; social constructivism; newly independent states; political language; securitisation; Statsvetenskap; Political science; Statsvetenskap; Statskunskap; Political Science;

    Abstract : The liberal ideas of New Political Thinking, introduced as the governing paradigm of Soviet foreign policy by Mikhail Gorbachev in the late 1980's, were to a substantial extent "adopted" and applied by the new leadership of post-Soviet Russia, not only in its dealings with the Western world, but also when formulating a foreign policy towards the 14 Newly Independent States. However, by mid-1992, a mere six months after the Soviet collapse, there were clear indications that a dramatic change in Russian foreign policy towards its next-door neighbours had come about. READ MORE

  4. 4. Two experimental studies in foreign language learning/teaching

    Author : Peter af Trampe; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Främmandespråk studier och undervisning; Främmandespråksinlärning; Språkinlärning;

    Abstract : The case for experimental research on the efficiency of methods of foreign language teaching is pleaded. In the first study, the effects of different practice materials on beginners' word-decoding ability in Russian was examined. The Russian words were divided into three categories: 1. The KTO-type. READ MORE

  5. 5. Basic Tendencies of Adjectival Accentological Development in Contemporary Russian

    Author : Julia Larsson; Öst- och centraleuropakunskap; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; foreign languages teaching; Applied linguistics; Baltic and Slavonic languages and literatures; Baltiska och slaviska språk språk och litteratur ; sociolinguistics; Tillämpad lingvistik; undervisning i främmande språk; sociolingvistik;

    Abstract : The present doctoral thesis is a study of the problem of "variation" in relation to word-stress in Russian adjectives, in both their short and long forms. The stress variation in adjectival forms is investigated from various viewpoints, the main of which is the revelation of the basic processes of stress reorganisation in these groups of words and the establishment of main tendencies of adjectival stress development in contemporary Russian. READ MORE