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Language Flexibility: The Effects of Finnish-Swedish Bilingualism on EFL Acquisition
(Turun yliopisto, 2008-02-11)
Tutkielmassa käsitellään vieraan kielen, ts. englannin, oppimista peruskoulussa. Hypoteesina oletetaan, että oppilaat, jotka jo hallitsevat kaksi kieltä, menestyvät paremmin vieraan kielen oppimisessa kuin yksikieliset ...
Target language use in teaching from the perspective of English teachers and student teachers in Finland
(2021-08-31)
This thesis examines English teachers and student teachers’ views on TL use in Finland. Target language (TL) is widely studied in the field of second language acquisition as teachers’ TL use is considered essential for ...
More than Words? An Analysis on the Language and Structure of General Election Manifestos of the British Labour Party 1983-2005
(Turun yliopisto, 2008-01-25)
The topic of this study is the language of the educational policies of the British Labour party in the General Election manifestos between the years 1983-2005. The twenty-year period studied has been a period of significant ...
"I feel like in English I am more myself": Experiences of Bringing forward Language Identity in Interviews of Second Language Speakers of English
(2021-02-05)
Identity and language identity are widely studied in the field of second language acquisition. Identity in relation to language has been studied from many perspectives, for example race, gender, ethnicity, and religion to ...
Finnish Ice Hockey Organisations as Multilingual Work Environments
(2020-12-01)
This thesis studies the phenomenon of workplace multilingualism in the Finnish professional ice hockey community. The primary research material of the thesis consists of four interviews with members of the professional ...
Idioms and L2 Learners. The Effect of L1, Transparency and Frequency on Idiom Comprehension by Finnish and Italian Learners of English
(Turun yliopisto, 2014-08-29)
Tämän sivuaineen tutkielman tarkoituksena on selvittää, miten suomalaiset ja italialaiset englannin kielen opiskelijat tunnistavat englanninkielisten idiomien merkityksiä. Erityisesti opiskelijoiden oman äidinkielen ...
“The virus will not have a chance against us” Transitivity Analysis on Donald Trump’s 2020 Coronavirus Speech
(2021-01-10)
A Transitivity Analysis on Donald Trump’s 2020 Coronavirus Speech. The aim of this
thesis was to examine the ideological implications and the representations of the America.
Furthermore, this thesis examined the relations ...
Evaluative language in pro-vivisection letters to the editor in The Times between 1875 and 1884 : The influence of Cruelty to animals Act 1876 on what is evaluated and how
(2020-11-24)
The objective of this thesis is to examine the use of evaluative language in texts that in one way or another defend vivisection. The primary material consists of 33 letters to the editor published in The Times between ...
Language Use, Attitudes, and Women's Rights in Abortion Discourse : A Qualitative and Comparative Study on Left and Right Winged British Newspaper Articles on Abortion
(2023-02-28)
This thesis is a critical discourse study on abortion discourse in British left and right leaning newspaper articles. This study examines the language use, attitudes, and women’s rights in the articles, and compares the ...
The Presence of English as a Lingua Franca in Finnish Lower Secondary School Teaching Materials : Content Analysis of English Textbooks and Author Interviews
(2023-02-28)
This joint thesis studies the role of English as a lingua franca in the Finnish National Core Curriculum for basic education and its presence in English language teaching materials. We conducted a qualitative analysis of ...