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1. 1. 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

3. 2. Is the Echo English series relevant for advanced learners? : -A study on lexical character and recycling in two Swedish EFL textbooks for upper secondary school

   Uppsats för yrkesexamina på grundnivå, Örebro universitet/Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap

   Författare :Magnus Ejnarsson; [2023]
   Nyckelord :Incidental learning; textbook analysis; recycling; pedagogy;

   Sammanfattning : This study aims to provide additional research into how Swedish EFL textbooks support incidental vocabulary learning through reading texts, specifically for textbooks aimed at upper secondary school, expecting a greater emphasis on recycling mid- and low-frequency words. The study has investigated the lexical character of two textbooks, Echo English 5 and Echo English 7, as well as how they recycle lemmas and how well they recycle lemmas from the mid- and low-frequency bands. LÄS MER

4. 3. Teaching English in Sweden : A Look at the Rhetoric in the Federalist Papers

   Magister-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

   Författare :Gustav Wetterlind; [2022]
   Nyckelord :Federalist Papers; Rhetoric; Swedish Curriculum; Ethos; Pathos;

   Sammanfattning : This essay examines the possibility to use the Federalist Papers as authentic classroom material for English 7 within Sweden’s upper secondary school. To do this, three close readings have been done of the first, tenth and fifty-first essay amongst the Federalist Papers. LÄS MER

5. 4. PRAGMATIC TRANSFER: A STUDY OF REFUSAL STRATEGIES AMONG CHINESE LEARNERS OF ENGLISH

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

   Författare :Yang Song; [2021-10-04]
   Nyckelord :English; Cross-cultural refusals; Refusal strategies; Chinese learners of English; Pragmatic transfer; Language proficiency;

   Sammanfattning : The present study aims at exploring how negative pragmatic transfer has affected Chinese learners of English in terms of the completion of cross-cultural refusals and the correlation between their linguistic proficiency and pragmatic competence. The empirical data were collected through an elicitation instrument, i.e. LÄS MER

7. 5. “I love using the gerund!”: An Empirical Study on the Complementation of Emotive Verbs in English

   Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Engelska

   Författare :Ann Hermansson; [2020]
   Nyckelord :linguistics; gerund; infinitive; verb complementation; emotive verb; English; Swedish; translation; Languages and Literatures;

   Sammanfattning : This essay concerns the complementation of the English emotive verbs like, love, hate and prefer. In English, gerund-participial and infinitival complements often receive semi-synonymous semantic interpretations when complementing emotive verbs. LÄS MER