Sökning: "monolinguals"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 14 uppsatser innehållade ordet monolinguals.
1. The Relation between Switching Languages and Perceived Personality Change: A Comparative Study of Bilinguals and Monolinguals
Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Institutionen för psykologiSammanfattning : With increasing bilingualism, it becomes vital to understand the relation of language to personality. Language is essential for expressing our thoughts, and personality impacts our thoughts and behavior. LÄS MER
2. Multilingual Categorisation of Landscape terms
Kandidat-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologiSammanfattning : This study investigates how multilinguals compared with monolinguals categorise landscape. The aim is to contribute to research already done with fresh data in a new setting. The thesis suggests that speakers with lower proficiency in a language will tend to choose vocabulary based on frequency and not semantic knowledge. LÄS MER
3. Effects of Multilingualism on Working Memory and Subjective Memory in Older Adults
Kandidat-uppsats, Luleå tekniska universitet/Institutionen för ekonomi, teknik och samhälleSammanfattning : To investigate whether multilingualism can be used to predict working memory in older adults this study has used a categorical variable as well as a continuous variable to measure multilingualism. This was done while also accounting for possible confounding variables such as intelligence. LÄS MER
4. Swedish adolescents' understanding of concrete and abstract English proverbs
Kandidat-uppsats, Umeå universitet/Institutionen för språkstudierSammanfattning : The aim of this essay is to find out how well Swedish adolescents understand concrete and abstract English proverbs, if concrete proverbs are easier to understand than abstracts ones, if there are differences between boys’ and girls’ and between monolinguals’ and bilinguals’ understanding of these. In a multiple-choice questionnaire, Swedish 7th to 9th graders read 15 short stories followed by three choices. LÄS MER
5. Narrativ förmåga på svenska : En- och flerspråkiga fyra- och sexåringar berättar till bilder
Magister-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/LogopediSammanfattning : The purpose of this study was to investigate the narrative competence of monolingual Swedish speaking children and bilingual Turkish and Swedish speaking children of ages 4 and 6. The focus of the study was narrative production on a macrostructural level which was investigated with the picture-based task ENNI. LÄS MER