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The Ashamed Selves : Autobiographical Study of Finnish University Students’ Shame of Speaking English
(2020-01-22)
Contrary to foreign language anxiety, shame has received limited attention in the field of Second Language Acquisition. According to previous research, shame is a variable that hinders learning of a second language in a ...
“I’m not a fucking hoax” – Problemizing Identity, Gender and Corporeality via J.T. LeRoy’s Transgressive Fiction
(Turun yliopisto, 2012)
Tarkastelen pro gradu –tutkielmassani kieltä, diskursiivista valtaa ja voimaannuttamista sekä identiteetin käsitettä yhdysvaltalaisen kirjailijan J.T. LeRoyn lyhytproosan kautta, jonka määritän lajiltaan transgressiiviseksi. ...
Samppanjan valmistus -termistö
(2021-04-29)
Tutkielman aiheena on samppanjaan ja erityisesti samppanjan valmistukseen liittyvä termistö suomen, ranskan ja englannin kielillä. Laadittu sanasto sisältää kaikkiaan 214 termitietuetta, jotka on jaettu aihepiireittäin 17 ...
Utopian Reconfiguration of the Nature/Culture Dualism in Ursula Le Guin’s Always Coming Home
(2020-02-12)
This thesis examines the intersection of utopia and ecology in Ursula Le Guin’s science fiction novel Always Coming Home (1985). As such, the thesis approaches the text from the theoretical frameworks of ecocriticism and ...
English Music in Spare Time and English Pronunciation – A Quantitative Study on 9th Graders in Finland
(2019-09-27)
Today, music is a familiar component of people’s daily sound environment, and a significant amount of popular music contains English vocals. It has been established by various studies that music can aid language learning, ...
Place in John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath and The Red Pony
(2020-03-03)
This thesis examines the literary places in John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath (1939) and The
Red Pony (1933). In the thesis I analyze how literary places, such as the ones in these two
aforementioned novels, are ...
"Think of us as symbols": Embodied Gods and Material Worship in Neil Gaiman's American Gods
(2020-03-16)
This thesis analyzes the connection between beliefs and their material representation in Neil Gaiman’s novel American Gods (2001). The aim is to show how ideas and matter converge in the creation of gods and the material ...
The Relationship between Motivation and Written Performance in English as a Second Language : A Quantitative Study of Finnish Upper Secondary School Students
(2020-03-26)
Learning a second language is a sum of different variables. One of the variables affecting language learning is motivation. The present study was concerned with the relationship between motivation to learn English and the ...
Common Ground in the English Premier League Post-match Interviews
(2020-02-26)
This thesis studies common ground and presupposition in English Premier League post-match interviews, in order to examine how the phenomena function in the data. The research questions that address common ground aim at ...
The Relationship between L1 Fluency and L2 Fluency in Writing : a Mixed Methods Study of the Writing Fluency of the Finnish Learners of English by Using Keystroke Logging Data
(2020-01-22)
Second language (L2) fluency has been a widely researched topic in the field of SLA for many years. However, it is only recently that researchers have become interested in the possible effects of the first language (L1) ...