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How do Norwegian EFL learners in their first year of upper secondary school experience encounters with English literature? A case study
(Master thesis, 2015-08-31)The aim of my research is to investigate and discuss how upper secondary EFL pupils experience encounters with English literature. My research intends to find answers to the questions of how they approach English literature ... -
How do textbooks in International English invite students to expand their intercultural perspectives through tasks related to texts about multiculturalism?
(Master thesis, 2014-09-01)The present thesis investigates tasks in textbooks in International English taught the second year at the Upper Secondary level in Norway. The study aims to investigate how tasks may teach students about culture to better ... -
How hard can it be? Relevant and motivating English education in vocational education programs - the learners' voice.
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How Norwegian EFL teachers perceive the roles of literature and multimodal texts in our digitalized society. A mixed methods study in English didactics
(Master thesis, 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 ... -
How politicians and the population attribute responsibility for climate change mitigation: no indication of a ‘governance trap’ in Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Previous research claims that ‘the most significant risk’ to achieving climate change mitigation goals is the ‘governance trap’, whereby governments and the public attribute responsibility for action to one another. While ... -
The Humanities of Contagion: How Literary and Visual Representations of the "Spanish" Flu Pandemic Complement, Complicate and Calibrate COVID-19 Narratives
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)My article examines how literary and visual representations of the “Spanish” Flu contagion foreshadow and generate critical discourses about pandemics. D.H. Lawrence’s novella The Fox characterises paranoia about biological ... -
Humanity is a pack of cards. A study on the use and translation of creative metaphorical expressions in the language pair Norwegian Bokmål and American English
(Master thesis, 2014-05-15)This thesis is about the use and translation of creative metaphorical expressions, based upon conceptual metaphors. The aim of this thesis is to investigate how creative metaphorical expressions are used in novels, and how ... -
“Humans bring food to their mouths, animals bring their mouths to food”—The morality politics of school-lunch sporks in 1970s Japan
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)We are not only what we eat, but how. This article examines the 1970s’ morality politics of spork usage that accompanied the rollout of rice in school lunches. I argue that these discourses about the material culture and ... -
Hva trenger tolkestudenten for å lære?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015)Students of public service interpreting come from a variety of backgrounds. A typical group of interpreting students includes a mix of students from different immigrant communities and from Norway’s majority population ... -
Hvem er Viktor Pelevins Homo Post-Sovjeticus? Betraktninger over psykologiske, ontologiske og samfunnsmessige implikasjoner i to av Viktor Pelevins romaner
(Master thesis, 2013-05-15)En oppgave om subjektet i det nye Russland, og dets forhold til sin virkelighet. -
Hvordan forstå hal? En analyse av norske og bosnisk/kroatisk/serbiske oversettelser av hal i Taha Husayns al -'Ayyam
(Master thesis, 2008-11-19)The translation of the Arabic −hāl, or circumstantial qualifier, can often be a challenge for translators, both into Norwegian and other languages. In Norwegian, the present participle is sometimes perceived as a sufficient ... -
“I feel like it’s giving me a lot as a language teacher to be a learner myself”: Factors affecting the implementation of a multilingual pedagogy as reported by teachers of diverse languages
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)To boost the foreign language learning process, language teachers need to know how to implement a multilingual pedagogy, that is, they should be able to draw on their and their students’ knowledge of other languages during ... -
"I give you the ned of a golden string"; The Gothic Element in William Blake
(Master thesis, 2008-12-04)Denne oppgave ser på hvordan det Gotiske utarter seg i poesien og ideene til William Blake gjennom å bruke teoriene til John Ruskin fra The Stones of Venice og Modern Painters. Ved hjelp av Ruskin’s teori, som fokuserer ... -
I Guess I Do, But I shouldn't. A study of teachers' beliefs and practices about L1 use in the Norwegian ESL classroom
(Master thesis, 2014-11-20)This study investigates English teachers' beliefs and practices in regards to L1/L2 use in the Norwegian ESL classroom. This was examined by conducting teacher interviews, classroom observations and a student questionnaire. ... -
"I Love Accents" - the use of accents in American sitcoms
(Master thesis, 2013-05-15)This thesis is concerned with the use of accents in American sitcoms. The aim of the study is to investigate if there is a systematic correlation between accent type and character type. Six sitcoms were included in the ... -
"I sound so posh compared to you lot". Phonological variation and change in the Surrey accent
(Master thesis, 2014-05-14)This thesis is a sociolinguistic study focusing on the accent spoken in Surrey. It has investigated five phonological variables: CURE-lowering, L-vocalisation, R-fronting, Yod-coalescence and upspeak. While the first four ... -
‘I would say [k]ar, yeah. [kʲ]ar, yeah’. Phonological variation and change in Portadown
(Master thesis, 2016-05-13)This thesis is a study in language variation and change in Portadown, Northern Ireland. Previous studies have shown that certain Belfast features have changed, and that these changes have spread to areas in the Lagan Valley ... -
Identidad lingüística en Guinea Ecuatorial: diglosia y actittudes lingüísticas ante el español
(Master thesis, 2015-05-14)En la tesina investigué las actitudes lingüísticas de los nativos de Guinea Ecuatorial ante el español. Es un estudio sociolingüístico que averigua, por una parte, la marca lingüística de identidad y pertenencia de los ... -
Identifying pluralistic approaches in language subjects in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden – A comparative curriculum analysis
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)In Scandinavia, plurilingualism has been embraced as an important goal in language curricula. However, research shows that teachers struggle to understand what plurilingualism is and how it can be implemented. To address ...