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Un(w)rapping Ta-Nehisi Coates¿ Politics and aesthetics
(The University of Bergen, 2018-03-14)Denne oppgaven er basert på en analyse av hvordan forfatter og journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates representerer den afroamerikanske opplevelsen i sine litterære verk. Forfatteren har i de siste årene opparbeidet seg status som ...Master thesis -
Learning academic languages: An analogical approach to student writing development in higher education
(The University of Bergen, 2017)Denne masteroppgaven har som mål å beskrive problemene som oppstår rundt undervisning av akademisk skriftspråk i høyere utdanning på en måte som setter språkformen og studentenes opplevelse av den i fokus. Dette blir gjort ...Master thesis -
Norwegian attitudes to English varieties: a sociolinguistic study
(The University of Bergen, 2017)Denne masteroppgåva undersøker kva haldningar nordmenn har til seks ulike variantar av engelsk: standard britisk engelsk, standard amerikansk engelsk, irsk engelsk, australsk engelsk, sørstats-amerikansk engelsk og indisk ...Master thesis -
How Norwegian EFL teachers perceive the roles of literature and multimodal texts in our digitalized society. A mixed methods study in English didactics
(The University of Bergen, 2017-12-13)Denne masteroppgåva er skriven i fagområdet engelsk didaktikk. Den har hatt som mål å belyse engelsklærarar i den norske vidaregåande skulen sine syn på og erfaringar med bruken av skjønnlitteratur og multimodale tekstar ...Master thesis -
Grammar Tasks in a Communicative Perspective: A Study of Three EFL Textbooks
(The University of Bergen, 2017-12-01)Kommunikativ språklæring fikk fotfeste som nytt paradigme på 1970-tallet, og brakte med seg et større fokus på kommunikasjon og meningsbasert læring. Denne tilnærmingen til språklæring er stadig aktuell. I engelskfaget i ...Master thesis -
Reconfiguring the absurd? A reading of Robert Serumaga’s A Play, Majangwa and The Elephants
(The University of Bergen, 2017-12-02)This thesis is an exploration of Robert Serumaga’s reconfiguration of elements of theatre of the absurd into what I call the absurdist idiom in his plays. Through a close reading of his plays A Play (1967), The Elephants ...Master thesis -
Vocabulary and EFL textbooks: Investigating explicit vocabulary exercises in three English textbooks for Norwegian year 10 students
(The University of Bergen, 2017-09-21)Vocabulary learning is an essential part of learning a language. David Wilkins expresses the importance of vocabulary in the following way: “without grammar very little can be conveyed, without vocabulary nothing can be ...Master thesis -
The Acquisition of english prepositions by Norwegian L2 learners - a Corpus-based error analysis
(The University of Bergen, 2017-06-14)Master thesis -
"All men must serve": Religious conversion in A Song of Ice and Fire
(The University of Bergen, 2017-06-24)Master thesis -
Bildung in EFL Learning in Norway: Teacher dependent?
(The University of Bergen, 2017-06-09)Formålet med oppgaven er å studere engelsklæreres forståelse av danningsbegrepet og hvilken innflytelse det kan ha på undervisningen. Det er lagt til grunn danningsteori av W. Klafki, J. Dewey og G. J. Biesta. Grunnlaget ...Master thesis -
Variable negation in late 19th-century Irish-English
(The University of Bergen, 2017-06-09)I ulike variantar av moderne engelsk over heile verda er bruk av perifrastisk do (I do not have it) i negative deklarative setningar kategorisk med dei fleste hovudverb, etter å ha tatt over jobben som ein gong blei gjort ...Master thesis -
”Dialogism as character development: Psychoanalysis and play in Siri Hustvedt’s The Summer Without Men and The Sorrows of an American”
(The University of Bergen, 2017-06-09)This two-part thesis discusses dialogism as character development in psychoanalysis and play of Siri Hustvedt’s novels The Summer Without Men and The Sorrows of an American. Where dialogism or dialogical exchange in play ...Master thesis -
Learner involvement related to intercultural competence and Bildung: A comparative study of literary texts and tasks in textbooks for upper secondary school
(The University of Bergen, 2017-06-09)Master thesis -
Of Monsters and Men: Masculinity and the Gothic in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Iain Banks' The Wasp Factory
(The University of Bergen, 2017-06-09)Denne oppgaven utforsker hvordan maskulinitet blir fremstilt og forstått i Mary Shelleys Frankenstein (1818) og Iain Banks The Wasp Factory (1984). Jeg knytter disse to bøkene sammen gjennom hvordan de tar opp mange av de ...Master thesis -
Formative assessment in EFL writing: A case study of pupils´ perceptions of their feedback practice and attitudes to receiving and using feedback
(The University of Bergen, 2017-06-08)Læreres tilbakemeldingspraksis på elevtekster er alltid aktuelt, og i løpet av det siste tiår har den norsk skolen hatt et særlig fokus på formativ vurdering igjennom den statlige satsingen Vurdering for Læring ...Master thesis -
Pragmatic competences in oral textbook tasks
(The University of Bergen, 2017-06-08)Pragmatic competences can be perceived as awareness of how meaning is context dependent and how to use language accordingly. These competences are a central part of communicative competence, enabling students to engage in ...Master thesis -
Cardiff English: A sociolinguistic study of phonological variation and change in Cardiff English
(The University of Bergen, 2017-06-08)Master thesis -
American, British or Norwegian English?: A phonological analysis of songs by Norwegian singers sung in English
(The University of Bergen, 2017-06-02)Denne oppgaven har hatt som formal å undersøke norske sangeres engelsk uttale. Jeg har sett på engelsken til sangerne Sverre Kjelsberg, Jahn Teigen, Morten Harket, Hans-Erik Dyvik Husby, Alex Rinde, Marit Larsen og Ida ...Master thesis -
Nostalgia, solitude and belonging in Teju Cole's Open City
(The University of Bergen, 2017-05-31)This master thesis concerns the main character in Teju Cole’s Open City, first published in the United States of America in 2011. The character is called Julius and is also the first person narrator in the novel. This means ...Master thesis -
Digitization and English. A study of the role of formal and informal ICT practices in students’ development of digital skills through the English subject
(The University of Bergen, 2016-11-21)It is a fact that computer technology has become an important part of our daily lives. Consequently, these technologies are incorporated in all the subjects in Norwegian schools. In the matter of the English subject, ...Master thesis
