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  1. 1. Bilingualism and Event Conceptualisation Patterns: Conceptual Transfer in Swedish-English Bilinguals

    Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Författare :Emma Knudsen; [2024]
    Nyckelord :Linguistic relativity; Conceptual transfer; Grammatical aspect; Endpoint encoding; Event conceptualisation; Languages and Literatures;

    Sammanfattning : In this paper, the event conceptualisation patterns of Swedish-English bilinguals are examined. Swedish and English differ from each other with regard to the existence of grammatical aspect, which previous work has shown to affect how speakers conceptualise motion events. LÄS MER

  3. 2. A quantitative study of Swedish high school L2 learners' receptive knowledge of English lexical collocations

    Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Författare :Louise Frifelt; [2024]
    Nyckelord :Collocations; Multi-word units; Formulaic language; Second language acquisition; Languages and Literatures;

    Sammanfattning : This paper investigates receptive knowledge of English lexical collocations among Swedish high school students. The study tests the claim that L2 (second language) learners of English have a low level of collocational competence and tend to recognise high-frequent collocations more than low-frequent since the former have been encountered more. LÄS MER

  4. 3. EN STUDIE I MUNTLIG INTERAKTION - Spanska steg 5 och engelska 5 på lika villkor?

    Master-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för didaktik och pedagogisk profession

    Författare :Ana Álvarez Björk; [2023-09-28]
    Nyckelord :second language learning; explicit and implicit language learning; pair speaking test; GERS; Extramural English; Spanish as L2 in Sweden; English as L2 in Sweden;

    Sammanfattning : Aim: The aims in this essay are to provide a description of interactional competence in a pair speaking test in Spanish and English, level B1.2 in a Swedish context. The investigated interactions are made by 14 pairs of students in upper secondary school studying the subjects English 5 and Spanish 5. LÄS MER

  5. 4. WHO’S AFRAID OF COMPLEXITY? An Exploration of the Influence of Native Language Complexity on L2 Complexity

    Master-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet / Institutionen för filosofi, lingvistik och vetenskapsteori

    Författare :Nadina Mariana Suditu; [2023-06-19]
    Nyckelord :complexity; SLA; TTR; entropy; kolmogorov; linear regression;

    Sammanfattning : The matter of linguistic complexity has been widely scrutinised in the last few decades, within theoretical linguistics, as well as in second language acquisition studies. A concept introduced in the last half of the previous century, it continues to be a matter of debate in the linguistic field, as it eludes a clear-cut definition and interpretation. LÄS MER

  7. 5. PRAGMATIC COMPETENCE: REFUSAL SPEECH ACT BY IRANIAN STUDENTS IN SWEDEN

    Magister-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Författare :Kazhal Shatery; [2023-04-19]
    Nyckelord :English; culture; speech act of refusal; pragmatic; pragmalinguistics and sociopragmatics; politeness theory; refusal strategies;

    Sammanfattning : Understanding cross-cultural differences plays a crucial role in communication and successful cross-cultural communications depends on various factors such as pragmalinguistics and sociopragmatics. Many researchers focus more on the aspect of pragmatics such as speech acts. The present study is a contrastive study of refusal speech act. LÄS MER