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Language learner identity and aptitude : a comparative study between Finnish and Chilean students and teachers of English
(2019-04-30)
Language identity and language aptitude are individual traits closely related to the foreign language learner be it a student or a teacher. The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between these two concepts ...
Conversational Principles, Structure and Prosody in Silent Hill 2: A Case Study of Video Game Dialogue
(2020-05-07)
This research was conducted in order to investigate the dialogue in the video game Silent Hill 2 from a discourse analytical perspective. More specifically, the research questions posed for the purpose of this study pertain ...
Frame Change Due to Policy Change: A Corpus Study of the Changing Frame of Israel in the US Media After Jerusalem Was Recognized as Capital
(2020-04-09)
This thesis examines the change in frame caused by political decision making. The USA decided to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital in December 2017, changing their policy and tradition that has been in use for nearly ...
Assessing the Role of Vocabulary Breadth and Depth in Reading Comprehension : A Quantitative Study of Finnish EFL Learners
(Turun yliopisto, 2018-10-25)
In this MA thesis, Finnish learners of English were studied in order to examine the relationship between second language vocabulary size, vocabulary depth, and reading comprehension. In addition, given the well-established ...
Murteiden kääntäminen Mark Twainin romaanin Adventures of Huckleberry Finn kolmessa uudelleensuomennoksessa
(2020-04-28)
Tässä tutkielmassa käsitellään Mark Twainin teoksen Adventures of Huckleberry Finn murrepiirteiden kääntämistä eriaikaisissa uudelleensuomennoksissa. Tutkimusaineistona on Kivimiehen suomennos vuodelta 1927, Laineen suomennos ...
If it Weighs as Much as a Duck, it’s Made of Wood, and Therefore a Witch : Direct and Indirect Accusations of Witchcraft in Depositions of the Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692
(2019-05-21)
The material for this thesis comes from the original depositions that have survived from the Salem witchcraft crisis of 1692. The aim of the thesis is to show that the depositions contain both direct and indirect accusations ...
Finnish Advanced EFL Learners’ Comprehension of Connotations in English
(2019-05-10)
Connotation is a word’s additional meaning or mental association and it can be perceived as positive, neutral, or negative. In the present study, connotations were looked at in terms of emotional charge, associations or ...
Evaluative language in the early 19th century theatre reviews in The Times newspaper
(2020-12-17)
Theatre reviews in newspapers play a vital role in the evaluation of performances and in preserving the collective opinion of the audience. Critics write about the acting, music, costumes, plot, etc. in a performance for ...
'Me as a Learner of English': Self-Concept and Learner Beliefs in Finnish Advanced L2 Learners' Autobiographical Narratives
(2020-10-07)
Self-concept has interested researchers for decades, although within the field of Second Language Acquisition, mostly quantitative methods have been used in self-concept research. Nevertheless, qualitative methods offer a ...
“I am a bilingual because I feel like one” : language identity of Finnish IB-students
(2020-10-20)
This thesis examines the language identities of Finnish International Baccalaureate-students. In this study, the focus is on subjective experiences of bilingualism and the students’ definitions of bilingualism. Very few ...