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Umana, Beauty Friday Happy. "Nigerian Pidgin English in Cape Town: exploring speakers’ attitudes and use in diaspora." Master's thesis, Faculty of Humanities, 2018. https://hdl.handle.net/11427/32098.
Full textHeusing, Gerald. "Aspects of the morphology-syntax interface in four Nigerian languages : a cross-linguistic study of Fulfulde, Igbo, Lamang and Mupun /." Münster : LIT, 1999. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb40151147v.
Full textOsinubi, Olumide. "Linguistic creativity in Nigerian newspaper advertising." Thesis, Lancaster University, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.314678.
Full textCarter-Enyi, Aaron. "Contour Levels: An Abstraction of Pitch Space based on African Tone Systems." The Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1461029477.
Full textRunsewe, O. I. "Communication in general Nigerian English : An intonational study." Thesis, University of Essex, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.375724.
Full textBotsis, Rachel. "Spatial languages in IsiXhosa." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/22965.
Full textAhmed, Yunana. "Language, Rhetoric, And Politics in a Global Context| A Decolonial Critical Discourse Perspective on Nigeria's 2015 Presidential Campaign." Thesis, Michigan Technological University, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10267894.
Full textIn this dissertation, I conceptualize a rhetorical and linguistic analysis of politics from a decolonial framework (Mignolo, 2011; Smith, 2012). My analysis draws on classical rhetoric (Aristotle, 2007), cultural rhetoric (Mao, 2014; Powell, et al., 2014; Yankah, 1995), and linguistics (Chilton, 2004) to reveal the different ways ideological and hegemonic struggles are discursively constructed in Nigerian political campaign discourse. The data for this study come from two speeches delivered by former President of Nigeria Goodluck Jonathan during the 2015 electoral campaign. This includes his declaration-of-intent speech and his speech marking the commencement of his formal campaign activities. My research demonstrates the richness of conceptualizing political discourse within its immediate and larger contexts and the effectiveness of an interdisciplinary approach—which I call an integrationist approach—in unmasking the different forms of hegemonic struggle in discourse. Analysis of linguistic elements such as tenses, indexicals, and cultural metaphors and the rhetorical elements of apologia, apologies, enthymemes, call-and-response, and fictive kinship terms such as “my brother and sister” reveals that hegemonic discourse in a Nigerian context is neither autonomous, nor flowing from a single dominant power, but constituted by multiple, heteroglossic and complex processes that connect the local and the global. To this end, my analysis focuses on a dual critique of local and colonial forms of hegemonic powers that are now codified in the overall discourse of globalization. This dual orientation is necessary because the social struggles below and above the nation-state are strategic spaces of political intervention that might be ignored when the focus of the analysis privileges just the nation-state. The findings present the merits of combining decolonial epistemologies with the perspectives of linguistics and rhetoric in the analysis of politics. Particularly, such approaches have the potentials to open up ways of knowing that would otherwise be taken for granted or completely marginalized based on our positionality as academics. The awareness of the diversity of cultural ways of knowing and theorizing encourages us to learn not only from dominant Western systems of knowledge, but more inclusively from culturally different, historically marginalized ways of thinking and knowing.
Fernando, Tim. "Temporal propositions as regular languages." Universität Potsdam, 2008. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2008/2719/.
Full textTrim, Richard Peter. "Drug metaphors in European languages." Thesis, University of London, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.338705.
Full textBrise, Lilian [Verfasser]. "«Eating Regret and Seeing Contempt» – A Cognitive Linguistic Approach to the Language of Emotions in Igala (Nigeria) / Lilian Brise." Frankfurt a.M. : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2017. http://d-nb.info/1138919705/34.
Full textMaciá, Fábrega Josep. "Natural language and formal languages." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/10348.
Full textOgunnowo, Susan Modupe. "Parent-Adolescent Sexual Health Communication in Immigrant Nigerian American Families." ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/2748.
Full textLomashvili, Leila. "Morphosyntax of complex predicates in South Caucasian languages." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/193878.
Full textKnooihuizen, Remco Mathijs. "Minority languages between reformation and revolution." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/3289.
Full textNwokocha, Sandra Chinyeaka. "Feminism in twenty-first-century Nigerian novels by women." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2017. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/7310/.
Full textDu, Plessis Menán. "A unity hypothesis for the southern African Khoesan languages." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11852.
Full textIncludes bibliographical references (leaves 357-373).
The study demonstrates for the first time the probable genetic unity of the KHOE, JU and UJ -T AA groups of southern African Khoesan, by means of the first full-scale application of a conventional comparative approach. It is shown in the first stage that there are repeated cross-SAK resemblances in the morphology of those verbs most frequently enlisted for grammatical purposes in the context of multi-verb constructions; and that these languages furthermore display multiple similarities 'horizontally' across their specifier systems. where the resemblances are often also visible 'vertically', i.e. down the lists of possible exponents. These structural affinities are sufficiently thoroughgoing to warrant a working surmise that the SAK languages might be genetically related. In the second stage, cross-SAK comparative material from various sources is presented in the form of arrays. The tabulations reveal a range of repeating alternations involving the basic positional click types, with some associated patternings of the possible click 'accompaniments'. The fact that the alternations are iterated and do not necessarily involve identities makes it more likely, when combined with the weight of the structural evidence, that the items in the comparative series are inherited than borrowed.
Sundberg, Cerrato Loredana. "Investigating Communicative Feedback Phenomena across Languages and Modalities." Doctoral thesis, KTH, Tal, musik och hörsel, TMH, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-4362.
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Mathur, Gaurav 1972. "The morphology-phonology interface in signed languages." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/8843.
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This thesis provides a novel way of looking at verb agreement in signed languages by using an interaction of several processes within the Distributed Morphology framework. At the center of the model is a phonological re-adjustment rule, ALIGN-Sphere, which handles various forms of agreement, including orientation change, path movement, hand order, and/ or a combination of these. Further evidence is taken from cross-linguistic data from American Sign Language, German Sign Language, Australian Sign Language, and Japanese Sign Language, as well as from interaction with several other morphemes. An Optimality-Theoretic analysis is sketched in which the output of the ALIGN-Sphere process is filtered by various phonetic constraints and may be replaced by an alternative form that does not otherwise violate phonetic constraints. The model outlined above leads to a new typology of signs: first there are spatial verbs, followed by plain verbs which do not have two animate arguments, followed by aligning verbs which by definition have two animate arguments. These aligning verbs contain a subset of verbs that are in theory capable of undergoing ALIGN-Sphere without violating phonetic constraints. This subset in turn contains another subset of verbs that are listed as actually undergoing ALIGN-Sphere in a particular language. The model rests on the assumption that the referential use of space lies outside of the grammar. By removing the referential space from the grammar removes the modality difference between spoken and signed languages with respect to 'agreement.' The remaining differences will lie in how agreement is implemented, but that is no longer a modality difference. Both spoken and signed languages make use of different processes within the morphology component to generate the agreement system (e.g. impoverishment, vocabulary insertion, and phonological re-adjustment rules), but otherwise they draw on the same set of processes made available by the grammar.
by Gaurav Mathur.
Ph.D.
Richards, Norvin W. (Norvin Waldemar) 1971. "What moves where when in which languages?" Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/10236.
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by Norvin W. Richards, III.
Ph.D.
Aldholmi, Yahya. "Segmental Contributions to Speech Intelligibility in Nonconcatenative vs. Concatenative Languages." Thesis, The University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, 2019. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=13421960.
Full textThis study investigated the contributions of segments (consonants vs. vowels) to speech intelligibility in Arabic and English. In these two languages, consonants and vowels play crucially different grammatical roles. Arabic is a nonconcatenative language that primarily assigns lexical information to consonants and morphosyntactic information to vowels, while English is a concatenative language that does not assign distinct roles to either class of segments. On this basis, we hypothesized that consonants and vowels would play very different roles in the intelligibility of the two languages. Five laboratory experiments were conducted, three on Arabic and two on English. Participants listened to words and sentences in which either all consonants or all vowels were replaced with silence and were asked to indicate what they heard. Unlike previous studies, all stimuli were carefully controlled for ratio of consonants to vowels. Results showed that in Arabic, consonants made a greater contribution than vowels to speech intelligibility, both in isolated words and in complete sentences. Furthermore, in consonant-only conditions, stimuli containing more consonants were more intelligible than those containing more vowels, displaying a clear effect of segmental ratio. In English, by contrast, the consonants and vowels made roughly equivalent contributions to speech intelligibility, and segmental ratio played a negligible role. These two disparate findings suggest that segmental contributions are crucially modulated by language-specific factors. That is, the different contributions of consonants and vowels to speech intelligibility are not solely determined by their distinct acoustic cues, but also by the grammatical role they play.
Elhindi, Yousif, and Theresa McGarry. "Gender-Linked Variation Across Languages." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2013. http://amzn.com/1612292224.
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Printer, William. "The grammar of conditional sentences in the Romance languages." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.254222.
Full textSchertz, Jessamyn Leigh. "The Structure and Plasticity of Phonetic Categories Across Languages and Modalities." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/322968.
Full textSchwarz, Anne, and Ines Fiedler. "Linguistic Fieldnotes III: Information Structure in Gur and Kwa Languages." Universität Potsdam, 2011. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2011/5109/.
Full textLevin, Lorraine S. "Operations on lexical forms : unaccusative rules in Germanic languages." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/15202.
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by Lorraine S. Levin.
Ph.D.
Manga, Louise Schieberl. "An explanation for ergative versus accusative languages: An examination of Inuktitut." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/9475.
Full textIsiaka, Adeiza Lasisi. "Ebira English in Nigerian Supersystems: Inventory and Variation." Doctoral thesis, Universitätsbibliothek Chemnitz, 2017. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:ch1-qucosa-225496.
Full textEverdell, Michael Sklar. "Reconsidering the Puebloan Languages in a Southwestern Areal Context." Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1368021379.
Full textLiljegren, Heléna. "Språkprojekt en väg för utveckling av barns språkliga kompetens." Thesis, Linköping University, Department of Educational Science (IUV), 2002. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-1657.
Full textEn människas språkutveckling är fantastiskt. Trots avsaknad av formell utbildning blir de flesta barn på några få år goda språkbrukare. Språket, som är ett abstrakt och komplicerat symbolsystem, utvecklas och förfinas hos de flesta av oss utan att vi egentligen vet eller reflekterar över hur det går till. Ändå har på senare år personal i skolor och förskolor signalerat att man känner oro över barns språk. En del barn har börjat första klass utan att ha de språkkunskaper som behövs för att klara undervisningen. Hur man valt att arbeta för att hjälpa dessa barn är olika.
I den här studien har jag valt att följa arbetet på en skola där man arbetar med ett ettårigt språkprojekt. Syftet med mitt arbete har varit att få kunskap om hur och varför man driver ett språkprojekt, för barn i förskola och skola. Hur lär sig barn språk? Hur kan skolan arbeta med elevernas språkutveckling? Hur beskriver pedagoger språkarbetet i skolan och hur upplever de deltagande pedagogerna språkprojektet? Detta var mina frågor vid starten av arbetet. Studien har genomförts med en kvalitativ ansats, där intervjuer och samtal varit den största och viktigaste informationskällan, men även observationer och studiebesök har legat till grund för resultatet. Mina tolkningar visar att det strukturerade arbetssätt som det pågående språkprojektet initierat, uppfattas som positivt av flera pedagoger, även om det finns kritik mot vissa delar.
Sallergård, Marie. "Språk för alla?" Thesis, Linköping University, Department of Educational Science (IUV), 2001. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-878.
Full textSyftet med det här arbetet har varit att ta reda på om alla människor har samma möjligheter att tillägna sig språk. Jag har velat ta upp olika teorier om hur man lär sig ett språk samt att redogöra för individuella skillnader vid språkinlärning. Jag vill även undersöka elevers och lärares attityder till ämnet grundspråk och se om eleverna påverkades av att de inte får betyg i ämnet grundspråk. En stor del grundar sig på litteraturstudier men jag har även en undersökande del där jag via enkäter undersökt elevers och lärares tankar om grundspråk.
Genom mitt arbete har jag dragit slutsatsen att alla inte har lika lätt för att lära sig språk. Det är många komponenter som ska stämma för att man ska kunna tillägna sig ett nytt språk. Vi måste inse att alla inte kan vara lika bra på allting och utgå därifrån.
Palmer, Blair D. "Production grammars for the kinship terminologies of Burmese and several Indonesian languages." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ37156.pdf.
Full textNdlovu, Sambulo. "A comparative analysis of metaphorical expressions used by rural and urban Ndebele speakers: the contribution of S'ncamtho." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/29515.
Full textMesthrie, Rajend. "A history of the Bhojpuri (or "Hindi") language in South Africa." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19511.
Full textAlthough Indian languages have existed in South Africa for the last 125 years, there are no academic studies of any of them - of their use in South Africa, their evolution and current decline. Many misconceptions persist concerning their names, their structure, and status as 'proper' languages. This thesis deals with the history of one such language, Bhojpuri (more usually, but incorrectly, referred to as "Hindi"). I attempt to trace the origins of the South African variety of this language by examining the places of origin of the original indentured migrants who brought it to South Africa. A complex sociolinguistic picture emerges, since these immigrants came from a very wide area in North India spanning several languages. I also attempt to describe the early history of Bhojpuri in South Africa as a 'plantation' language. Subsequent changing patterns of usage are then detailed, including phonetic, syntactic, lexical and semantic change. The influence of other South African languages - chiefly English, but also Zulu, Fanagalo, and other Indian languages - is described in detail, as well as changes not directly attributable to language contact. A final section focusses on the decline of the language and the process of language death. From another (more international) perspective this study lays the foundation for comparisons between Bhojpuri in South Africa and other 'overseas' varieties of it, spawned under very similar conditions, in ex-colonies like Surinam, Fiji, Mauritius, Guyana, Trinidad and others. Such a comparative study could well make as great a contribution to general and socio-linguistics as the study of creoles has in the recent past. Information concerning this unwritten language was gathered by field-work throughout Natal. This involved informal interviews with over two hundred fluent speakers, including four who had been born in India during the time of immigrations. The study also draws upon the author's observations on language practices as an 'inside' member of the community under study.
Murasugi, Kumiko G. 1960. "Crossing and nested paths--NP movement in accusative and ergative languages." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/12894.
Full textAda, Anil. "Non-deterministic communication complexity of regular languages." Thesis, McGill University, 2007. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=112367.
Full textWe show that a regular language has either O(1) or O(log n) non-deterministic complexity. We obtain several linear lower bound results which cover a wide range of regular languages having linear non-deterministic complexity. These lower bound results also imply a result in semigroup theory: we obtain sufficient conditions for not being in the positive variety Pol(Com).
To obtain our results, we use algebraic techniques. In the study of regular languages, the algebraic point of view pioneered by Eilenberg ([Eil74]) has led to many interesting results. Viewing a semigroup as a computational device that recognizes languages has proven to be prolific from both semigroup theory and formal languages perspectives. In this thesis, we provide further instances of such mutualism.
Ali, Fatimah Binta. "Body Weight Self-Perceptions and Experiences of Nigerian Women Immigrants." ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/6962.
Full textWoode, Andrew Charles Anthony. "Medieval Occitan grammatical writings : the adaptation of Latin linguistic analysis to vernacular languages." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1995. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/275256.
Full textShimizu, Katsumasa. "A cross-language study of voicing contrasts of stop consonants in Asian languages." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/20185.
Full textAndersson, Therése. "Mellanstadieelevers attityd till svensk grammatik. En jämförelse mellan mellanstadieelevers grammatikuppfattning 1985 och 2002." Thesis, Linköping University, Department of Educational Science (IUV), 2002. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-1661.
Full textDet är många elever i vår skola som förknippar svenskundervisningen med tråkiga grammatiklektioner. Mitt syfte är att i detta arbete söka svar på bland annat Har det alltid funnits grammatikundervisning i den svenska skolan?, Har Lpo förändrat inställningen till grammatik? och Uppfattas grammatik som tråkigt och något nödvändigt ont? Min undersökning bygger på en enkätundersökning gjord av Göran Strömqvist 1985. Jag har utfört en liknande undersökning för att se om det har skett någon förändring sedan Lpo 94:s tillkomst om mellanstadieelevers inställning till grammatik.
Eriksson, Karin. "En jämförande studie av grammatikundervisningen i Sverige och England." Thesis, Linköping University, Department of Educational Science (IUV), 2001. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-842.
Full textIntresset för språk gav mig idén att undersöka hur grammatikundervisningen fungerar i dagens skola. Jag ville inte bara göra en undersökning om den svenska uppfattningen, utan även ta del av ett annat lands åsikter. Valet föll på England. Min tanke är att en sådan undersökning skulle kunna ge mig en klarare utgångspunkt för det kommande arbetet med språkundervisningen och ge en vägledning när det gäller att förbättra elevernas kunskap och förståelse för språkets betydelse.
I arbetet vill jag försöka komma fram till om och hur eleverna finner samband mellan grammtikstudier, läsning, skrivning och annan färdighetsträning.
Mina resultat har jag kommit fram till genom litteraturstudier och en empirisk undersökning bestående av en elevenkät och en lärarenkät.
Duanmu, San. "A formal study of syllable, tone, stress and domain in Chinese languages." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/13646.
Full textSteensland, Henrik, and Dina Dervisevic. "Controlled Languages in Software User Documentation." Thesis, Linköping University, Department of Computer and Information Science, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-4637.
Full textIn order to facilitate comprehensibility and translation, the language used in software user documentation must be standardized. If the terminology and language rules are standardized and consistent, the time and cost of translation will be reduced. For this reason, controlled languages have been developed. Controlled languages are subsets of other languages, purposely limited by restricting the terminology and grammar that is allowed.
The purpose and goal of this thesis is to investigate how using a controlled language can improve comprehensibility and translatability of software user documentation written in English. In order to reach our goal, we have performed a case study at IFS AB. We specify a number of research questions that help satisfy some of the goals of IFS and, when generalized, fulfill the goal of this thesis.
A major result of our case study is a list of sixteen controlled language rules. Some examples of these rules are control of the maximum allowed number of words in a sentence, and control of when the author is allowed to use past participles. We have based our controlled language rules on existing controlled languages, style guides, research reports, and the opinions of technical writers at IFS.
When we applied these rules to different user documentation texts at IFS, we managed to increase the readability score for each of the texts. Also, during an assessment test of readability and translatability, the rewritten versions were chosen in 85 % of the cases by experienced technical writers at IFS.
Another result of our case study is a prototype application that shows that it is possible to develop and use a software checker for helping the authors when writing documentation according to our suggested controlled language rules.
Nay, Garrett K. "Areal Patterns of Possessive Morphology in the Languages of Eurasia." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2013. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/3780.
Full textLoza, Christian E. Mihalcea Rada F. "Cross language information retrieval for languages with scarce resources." [Denton, Tex.] : University of North Texas, 2009. http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc12157.
Full textHarvey, Sean Patrick. "American languages: Indians, ethnology, and the empire for liberty." W&M ScholarWorks, 2009. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539623548.
Full textCerrón-Palomino, Rodolfo, and Peter Kaulicke. "Research in Andean Linguistics." Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2012. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/113289.
Full textTuttle, Siri G. "Metrical and tonal structures in Tanana Athabaskan /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/8397.
Full textLjungberg, Maria. "Tvåspråkiga barns situation i svenska skolan." Thesis, Linköping University, Department of Educational Science (IUV), 2004. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-2259.
Full textSyftet med detta arbete är att undersöka hur man kan förbättra tvåspråkiga elevers situation i skolan. En litteraturstudie och intervjuer med fem lärare har legat till grund för undersökningen av hur viktig modersmålsundervisningen och undervisningen i svenska som andraspråk är för tvåspråkiga elever samt huruvida det skulle vara bättre att undervisa dessa elever på deras modersmål i till exempel samhällsorienterande ämnen. Resultatet visar att det är mycket viktigt att behålla modersmålet och utveckla det. Därför borde modersmåls- undervisningen ligga inom eller strax efter ordinarie skoltid. Man borde även sträva efter att förbättra modersmålslärarnas status. Arbetet visar att undervisningen i svenska som andraspråk har för lite resurser; en lösning kan dock vara att placera om resurserna på de skolor som har en hög procent elever som har behov av ämnet. Ett samarbete mellan sv2 läraren och modersmålsläraren borde vara självklart. Detta arbete har även visat att ett väl utvecklat modersmål underlättar inlärningen av ett andraspråk och en lösning till de tvåspråkiga elevernas situation i skolan kan vara att man involverar modersmålslärarna i skolvardagen så att eleverna kan få förklarat och översatt det de inte förstår.
Bergenhök, Malin. ""Schyst språk-Inget bråk"-en utvärdering av ett språk- och attitydprojekt." Thesis, Linköping University, Department of Educational Science (IUV), 1999. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-529.
Full textDetta arbetes syfte har varit att beskriva och utvärdera"Schyst språk-Inget bråk"projektet som genomfördes på Solhagaskolan i Ryd, Linköping under läsåret 1998-99. Det startades p.g.a. att elevernas språk och beteende inte gick att tolerera längre och för att förbättra stämningen på skolan. Man hade en arbetsgrupp bestående av tre ur personalen som också var de ansvariga. Dessa tre tog kontakt med olika institutioner i närsamhället, som bildade en samverkansgrupp, för att alla som träffar barnen skulle vara enade mot samma mål. På skolan delades barnen in i kompisgrupper från sexårs till femte klass, där de ibland gjorde aktiviteter ihop under året. Man hade även en hel del samlingar med alla elever på skolan där syftet var att skapa en känsla av gemenskap på skolan. För att kunna nå mitt syfte har jag gjort en enkätutvärdering i två klasser, intervjuat de tre i arbetsgruppen och två ur samverkansgruppen, jag har även läst litteratur om att förebygga mobbning och våld i skolor. Slutsatser jag har dragit är bl.a. att elevernas tankar kring projektet skiljer sig åt en del beroende på årskurs och kön, lärarna har i stort sett varit nöjda med arbetet i projekt, samt att resultatet är att eleverna har blivit medvetna om hur det låter när de säger dumma saker och att det har blivit lugnare på skolan.
Carlsson, Angelica. "Dramainspirerad språkundervisning." Thesis, Linköping University, Department of Educational Science (IUV), 2001. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-964.
Full textArbetet syftar till att ge en bild av dramats möjligheter inom språkundervisningen och består av två huvuddelar; en litteraturdel samt en undersökningsdel. I teoridelen belyser jag begreppet drama ur ett antal synvinklar samt presenterar ett antal inlärningsteoretiker för att se om jag hos dessa kan hitta stöd för att drama kan gynna elevers lärande. I undersökningsdelen undervisar jag i dramainspirerad engelska i två åldersgrupper och låter sedan eleverna utvärdera denna undervisning med hjälp av en skriftlig enkät.
Jag avslutar sedan med en slutdiskussion vilken visar att drama kan gynna elevers lärande på ett flertal olika sätt. En dramainspirerad språkundervisning kan bl.a. ge mer realistiska kommunikationssituationer, ökad motivation och en mer konkret språkundervisning. Det finns dock ytterligare fördelar med att arbeta på detta sätt. Metoden främjar exempelvis även ett bra klassrumsklimat, ger eleverna en chans att uttrycka sig estetiskt samt ökar kontakten mellan lärare och elev.