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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 -
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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 -
Integrating pronunciation and meaning: Teacher cognition on pronunciation teaching in the EFL classroom against the backdrop of communicative language teaching
(The University of Bergen, 2016-11-21)In this thesis I explore teachers' cognitions on pronunciation among lower secondary teachers of English as a Foreign language. Where the audiolingual method focused on correct' pronunciation and imitation, communication ...Master thesis -
J.M. Coetzee's disgrace: At the margins of the human
(The University of Bergen, 2016-11-22)Sammendrag I denne avhandlingen gjør jeg en lesning av J.M. Coetzee's roman Disgrace (1999), der jeg undersøker etiske aspekter ved romanen med et posthumanistisk rammeverk. Disgrace er i motsetning til Coetzee's ...Master thesis -
A Suzerain of the Earth: The Creative Violence of Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian
(The University of Bergen, 2016-09-05)Denne avhandlingen tar for seg den amerikanske romanen Blood Meridian or The Evening Redness in the West, skrevet av Cormac McCarthy og publisert i 1985. Romanen finner sted i Nord-Amerika mot slutten av 1840-tallet og ...Master thesis -
The Ravished Reader. Angela Carter’s Allegory in Nights at the Circus
(The University of Bergen, 2000)Master thesis -
Textbook tasks and the development of ICC in the EFL-classroom. How do textbook tasks in the subject of English in VG1 potentially promote the developmentof intercultural communicative competence?
(The University of Bergen, 2016-05-17)As of 2016, due to globalization, cross- cultural contact and communication are at an all-time high. Therefore, it is important that education prepares pupils for the increased interconnectedness of the world, and as ...Master thesis -
"Hearts recycled but never saved" - A Search for self in the modern day dystopia of green day's American Idiot
(The University of Bergen, 2016-05-15)Despite ten years of gradually decreasing commercial success, the American rock band Green Day soared back to stardom with their 2004 concept album American Idiot. By academics and laymen alike, the album has been looked ...Master thesis -
Truth above the clouds. Narrative truth and competitive writing
(The University of Bergen, 2016-05-16)This thesis explores competitive writing in Mount Everest literature, and how different mountaineers attempt to convince the reader of their narrative truth. A comparison of Sir Edmund Hillary's High Adventure (1955) ...Master thesis -
Order out of chaos - Highlighting the chaos inherent in the order. How Hunter S. Thompson’s early texts give value to fiction by challenging the authority of politically constructed truths
(The University of Bergen, 2016-05-18)This master's thesis concerns Hunter S. Thompson and his position in the canon of American fiction writers. Through a literary reading of a number of Thompson's early articles from the collection The Great Shark Hunt, ...Master thesis -
The Liminal undead
(The University of Bergen, 2016-05-16)The enormous popularity of zombies and the undead in contemporary times has created an interest and theoretical relevance for these creatures. This thesis will study the undead and their stay in the liminal space ...Master thesis -
A Master’s Monument: Shakespeare’s Sonnets in the Poetry of W. B. Yeats
(Early Modern Research Group and The Bergen Shakespeare and Drama Network , Faculty of Humanities, Department of Modern Languages and Translation, University of Agder, 2010)This article explores the reception of Shakespeare’s Sonnets by W.B. Yeats. In her recent study Our Secret Discipline: Yeats and Lyric Form (2007), Helen Vendler has stressed the importance of taking the formal structures ...Journal article -
"Speak, Friend, and Enter": Interracial friendship in the works of J. R. R Tolkien
(The University of Bergen, 2016-05-17)Abstract The famous writer J. R. R Tolkien and his books The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit have been given a lot of attention over the last 15 years. This is due to the film adaptations of the books by director ...Master thesis -
Old dogs teaching new tricks? How upper secondary English teachers in Hordaland define digital competence and what kind of digital competence is promoted in their teaching.
(The University of Bergen, 2016-06-02)Som en konsekvens av digitaliseringen av samfunnet, er nå digitale ferdigheter en av fem grunnleggende ferdigheter i alle fag i grunnskolen og i videregående skole. Denne masteravhandlingen søker å avdekke hvordan lærerne ...Master thesis -
Spoken English in the classroom - A Study of attitudes and experiences of spoken varieties of English in English teaching in Norway
(The University of Bergen, 2016-05-18)To be able to express oneself orally is one of the five basic skills that is considered necessary for learning and development in school, work, and in society, and therefore deserves attention. The English language has ...Master thesis
