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“Are you looking for an ambitious job in a fun and international environment?”: Aspects of Employer Branding in Recruitments Advertisements in the Netherlands and in India
(2019-05-13)
Recruitment advertisements have been studied and discussed by HR practitioners and academics alike, mostly by scholars coming from fields such as management and business studies, but they have received little attention ...
Magic Realism and Hallucinatory Realism in Life and Death Are Wearing Me out : A Comparative Study on Life and Death Are Wearing Me out and Midnight’s Children
(2020-10-14)
Tässä artikkelissa on tehty alustava tutkimus maagisen realismin ja hallusinaarisen realismin piirteistä Mo Yanin Seitsemän Elämääni vertaamalla sitä keskiyön lapsiin, taika-realistisen kirjailijan Salman Rushdien ...
“I have never seen a thin person drink diet coke.” – analysis of insults in Donald Trump’s tweets @realdonaldtrump
(2019-05-08)
The subject of this Master’s thesis deals with Donald Trump and the way he uses insults in his messages on the social media platform Twitter. His style of communication has attracted a lot of media attention and his tweets ...
Comparing L2 Speech Fluency in Monologue and Dialogue: A Quantitative Study of Finnish Upper Secondary School Learners of English
(2021-03-15)
This thesis examines second language (L2) speech fluency in monologic and dialogic task
mode. The aim of the thesis is to investigate how the mode of performance affects
language learners’ speech fluency with a ...
Presentation of Irish English in a 19th Century Usage Guide : Analysis of Language Attitudes in The Vulgarities of Speech Corrected: with Elegant Expressions for Provincial and Vulgar English, Scots and Irish; for the Use of Those Who Are Unacquainted with Grammar.
(2021-02-15)
This paper examines how Irish English is presented in the 19th-century English language usage guide The Vulgarities of Speech Corrected: with Elegant Expressions for Provincial and Vulgar English, Scots and Irish; for the ...
A comparative study on differences in Finnish university students’ motivation between three languages : English, Swedish and an optional language
(2021-05-06)
Motivation and language learning has been widely studied before (for example, see Boo, Dörnyei and Ryan, 2015 for an overview of previous L2 motivation research), but comparing motivation between English, Swedish and third ...
EFL oral skills development : A thematic analysis of teaching methods used in EFL teaching in Finland
(2021-05-21)
Oral skills are an essential part of language learning but due to their complexity, it is challenging to teach them. Teaching oral skills includes teaching interaction skills, text production skills and text interpretation ...
“Are we one member in a family of nations, or a country that prefers to keep itself to itself and bolt the door?” : Constructed oppositions creating representations in UK Online Newspaper Editorials’ Brexit discourse
(2021-05-11)
This thesis examines the construction of opposites using syntactic frames (such as X, not Y) and how these oppositions are used to convey different representations. The material of this study comes from (online) newspaper ...
Syntactic Complexity and Lexical Accuracy in the Written Production of Finnish EFL Learners : a Quantitative Study of 9th-graders’ and Upper Secondary School Students’ Texts
(2019-03-14)
This thesis analyzes syntactic complexity and lexical accuracy in the written English production of Finnish EFL learners. The main purpose is to examine the development of these two dimensions of learner language and the ...
Comparing Multi-Word Verb Use among Finnish-Speaking and Swedish-Speaking Adult EFL Learners
(2019-03-12)
The present study explores how adult English language learners with different L1s use English multi-word-verbs. The term multi-word-verbs refers to constructs that consist of a verb with either an adverbial particle, a ...