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Norwegian EFL students’ perceived L2 influence from interaction with video game related websites or platforms
(Master thesis, 2019-12-12)Denne studien undersøker norske elevers oppfattede engelskpåvirkning fra interaksjon med videospillrelaterte nettsider eller plattformer ved å se på hvordan elever i den videregående skole engasjerer seg på videospillrelaterte ... -
Norwegian EFL Teachers´ Beliefs about In-depth Learning
(Master thesis, 2020-09-19)Denne studien nyttar ein kombinasjon av kvalitativ og kvantitativ tilnærming i undersøkinga av norske engelsklærarar sine oppfatningar av djupnelæring i engelskfaget. Studien er gjort i tråd med fagfornyinga, og ser på om ... -
Norwegian EFL Teachers’ Perceptions about the Role of Literature in Vocational Studies
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'Norwegian English': English native speakers' attitudes to Norwegian-accented English
(Master thesis, 2013-05-15)Abstract The purpose of this study is to give insight into what English people think of Norwegians speaking English, and how this view varies depending on the foreign-accentedness. How will a Norwegian speaking heavy ... -
Norwegian L1 teachers’ beliefs about a multilingual approach in increasingly diverse classrooms
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)The L1 subject is a central meeting place for all students regardless of their linguistic backgrounds. Thus explorations of multilingualism in the L1 subject provide the potential for enhancing all students’ multilinguality. ... -
A Norwegian Soul in a Chinese Body? Ethnic Identity and Chinese Adoptees in Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)The ethnic identity of international adoptees has been a transdisciplinary field of inquiry over the past decades. Taking China-born adopted Norwegian citizens as research subjects, this study uses a mixed-method approach ... -
Norwegian upper secondary EFL teachers’ attitudes, knowledge and beliefs about learner autonomy
(Master thesis, 2018-05-10)Denne masteroppgaven er skrevet innenfor engelsk didaktikk og har hatt som hensikt å se nærmere på norske læreres kunnskap, holdning og tanker om elevautonomi. Studien har blitt gjennomført blant lærere som underviser i ... -
Nostalgia, solitude and belonging in Teju Cole's Open City
(Master thesis, 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 ... -
Of Monsters and Men: Masculinity and the Gothic in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Iain Banks' The Wasp Factory
(Master thesis, 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 ... -
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.
(Master thesis, 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 ... -
Olympe de Gouges : Femme rebelle. Une étude linguistique et discursive de La Déclaration des Droits de la femme et de la citoyenne (1791)
(Master thesis, 2014-05-15)Ce mémoire se centre sur Olympe de Gouges, personnalité historique et féministe avant l'heure, connue pour avoir écrit La Déclaration des droits de la femme et de la citoyenne déjà en 1791. A travers une analyse à la fois ... -
«Om vannveier, vyer og jernbanemyter»
(Journal article, 2020)Artikkelen drøfter norsk og russisk metaforbruk knyttet til transport i et komparativt perspektiv, med særlig vekt på norsk sjø- og skipsmetaforikk og russiske jernbanemetaforer. -
Omission of the primary verbs BE and HAVE in London teenage speech - a sociolinguistic study
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On the rhetorical function of existential THERE
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 1999) -
"One accent to rule them all". A sociolinguistic study of accent use and stereotyping in American fantasy films
(Master thesis, 2014-05-14)This thesis investigates accent use in a selection of American fantasy films. Specific characters traits have been correlated with various accents to detect systematic patterns and underlying language attitudes. -
"One foot in this world and one foot in that": Woman Hollering Creek and the bildungscomposite
(Master thesis, 2008-12-15)In this thesis I discuss the genre of Sandra Cisneros's Woman Hollering Creek. I argue that the book is what I here call a bildungscomposite," that is, a hybrid genre with elements from both the Bildungsroman and the short ... -
One Loveheart at a Time: The Language of Emoji and the Building of Affective Community in the Digital Medieval Studies Environment
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)The Old Books, New Science (OBNS) Lab began using Slack in May 2016 to facilitate the work of a diverse research group at the University of Toronto. Yet the OBNS Slack does not simply facilitate scholarly communication: ... -
"One of these misty halos". Joseph Conrad and the Subversion of the Adventure Story
(Master thesis, 2014-11-20)This thesis explores how the destabilization and subversion of the traditional adventure story genre in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness (1899) and Lord Jim (1900) provide a critique of imperialism from within. Through ... -
"Only I shall taste your body's joys:" The Erotic Function of Female Corporeality in The Flame and the Flower and Fifty Shades of Grey
(Master thesis, 2021-06-02)Denne oppgaven tar for seg hvordan de kroppslige kvalitetene til heltinnene i The Flame and the Flower (1972) av Kathleen E. Woodiwiss og Fifty Shades of Grey (2011) av E.L James blir representert og tillagt en erotisk ... -
Opinions about Perceived Linguistic Intelligibility in Late-Medieval Italy
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)This article contributes to the historical study of intercomprehension between speakers of closely related languages by focusing on Italy in the period up to the mid-fifteenth century. After an introduction to the topic, ...