Inglise filoloogia magistritööd – Master's theses
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Teachers’ practices and beliefs regarding corrective feedback in EFL classroom
(Tartu Ülikool, 2021)Making errors is considered a normal occurrence in the process of language learning, which teachers are expected to guide and support by providing suitable and beneficial guidance and error correction. Although teacher ... -
The social construction of the characters’ identities in the trilogy by David Henry Hwang: an intersectional approach
(Tartu Ülikool, 2021)Considering writing literature as a cultural practice, the texts about and by the representatives of ethnic minorities serve as an interesting field of research. This thesis analyzes the social construction of identities ... -
How come that’s a construction? A construction grammar approach to the how come construction in spoken American English
(Tartu Ülikool, 2021)This MA thesis aims at combining corpus linguistics and construction grammar, two of the active fields in contemporary linguistics. The research focuses on a construction used in informal spoken American English: how come. ... -
Creating Information and communication technology based learning materials for supporting teaching of culture in English as a foreign language education
(Tartu Ülikool, 2021)It is agreed that we have to teach language and its culture together. The aim of the current MA thesis is to create learning materials for teaching culture in FL lessons. The materials introduce practical situations from ... -
Transhumanism and transhuman body in Jeanette Winterson’s Frankissstein: A Love Story (2018)
(Tartu Ülikool, 2021)Just like at the beginning of the 19th century, in the 20th and 21st century the advancements in technology have led to the increase of science fiction that deals with the ethical concerns related to humanity and human ... -
Analyzing Cambridge English Write & Improve as a supplementary resource for practicing writing in an English classroom: a case study
(Tartu Ülikool, 2021)Nowadays, the acquisition of digital competence is highly promoted in schools. It has become even more important during the COVID-19 pandemic, where face-to-face lessons could no longer be provided, and other technological ... -
Remote teaching during the Covid-19 pandemic on the example of Estonian EFL teachers of forms 7-9
(Tartu Ülikool, 2021)The Covid-19 pandemic suddenly changed the way people used to live, work and study. In the spring of 2020 most schools in the world were forced to close their doors and start remote education to stop the virus spreading. ... -
Creating activities and materials for teaching American studies
(Tartu Ülikool, 2021)The present thesis aims to analyze the creation of activities and materials for an American Studies CLIL course. The issue of culture lessons being rather passive and not engaging for high school learners urged the author ... -
Basic school students’ perceptions of the application Memrise as an assisting tool for language learning
(Tartu Ülikool, 2021)Different techniques for foreign language learning change and develop over time and mobile assisted learning has been growing in popularity over the past few years. Even though the techniques used in the applications are ... -
Estonian native speaker EFL students’ views on english medium Instruction at the University of Tartu
(Tartu Ülikool, 2021)This master’s thesis studies Estonian native speaker students’ views on English-medium instruction (EMI) at the University of Tartu. The growth of EMI in higher education is a situation many countries face, including ... -
The effect of learner-generated revision videos with revision questions on vocabulary acquisition and speaking fluency in an EFL oral communication class
(Tartu Ülikool, 2021)The aim of this study is to research the effects of learner-generated revision videos with revision questions on vocabulary acquisition and speaking fluency in the 9th grade EFL oral communication class. Many students are ... -
Supporting and hindering factors to adults in the process of learning English in non-formal education
(Tartu Ülikool, 2021)Lifelong learning is considered to be of great importance in the whole world, including Estonia. Goals set in education in Estonia prioritise learning other languages as well as increasing the number of adults in lifelong ... -
The portrayal of woman characters in Thomas Hardy’s novel Tess of the D’Urbervilles compared to its Estonian translation
(Tartu Ülikool, 2021)Thomas Hardy is a very famous writer and he is especially known for his critical and condemning views of the societal problems that were prominent in the Victorian era. The aim of this thesis is to look at the figures ... -
Using fanfiction in advanced English classrooms
(Tartu Ülikool, 2021)Creativity is one of the 21st century skills that students should acquire to succeed after graduation. Fanfiction has the potential to combine developing creativity, critical thinking, language skills and extensive reading. ... -
Enhancing learners’ listening skill by creating study materials to accompany I Love English 6 Course materials
(Tartu Ülikool, 2021)Listening is a receptive skill and spoken language, with background sounds, visual information, previous understandings and the specific situation altogether form listening. Because of all those factors, listening is not ... -
Teaching the English article system based on the analysis of I Love English 4
(Tartu Ülikool, 2021)The purpose of the current study is to analyze the English coursebook I Love English 4 and recommend exercises, which are more oriented towards teaching the English article system to the students of Grade 6. -
Wystan Hugh Auden’s selected poems in Estonian translation: aspects of gender and sexuality
(Tartu Ülikool, 2021)This thesis concentrates on the ways gender and sexuality related references are translated from English into Estonian, focusing specifically on the poems by Wystan Hugh Auden and their translation by Märt Väljataga published ... -
The transmedial Grail: Malory’s Le Morte D’Arthur (1485), Beardsley’s The Achieving of the Sangreal (1893–1894) and Boorman’s Excalibur (1981)
(Tartu Ülikool, 2021)The field of transmedial studies is an ever-growing one due to the ongoing development of different forms of media. While transmedial storytelling, for example, has been studied extensively and transmedial analysis has ... -
Teachers’ use of literature in the Estonian EFL classroom in stages II and III of basic school and upper secondary school: reasons, selection processes and approaches
(Tartu Ülikool, 2021)While the inclusion of literature in the English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teaching has been debated quite fiercely in the past, it has become a steady fixture by now. Extensive research has been conducted into the ... -
The effects of writing interventions on students` attitude toward writing among the 7th and 9th Form pupils of Tartu Kivilinna School
(Tartu Ülikool, 2021)The present thesis aims to discover whether giving students opportunities to engage in creative writing increases their attitude toward writing in general. This topic is important as the Estonian curriculum does not include ...
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