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Teacher cognition in the foreign language classroom: A literature review from Norway and Sweden
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)The study of language teacher cognition (LTC) allows us to understand better language teaching regarding what teachers know, how they come to know it, and how they draw on their knowledge. Due to the recently increasing ... -
Teachers' beliefs about multilingualism and a multilingual pedagogical approach
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-06-08)Knowledge of teachers’ beliefs is central to understanding teachers’ decision-making in the classroom. The present study explores Norwegian language teachers’ beliefs about multilingualism and the use of a multilingual ... -
Teachers’ reported implementation of multilingual teaching practices in foreign language classrooms in Norway and Russia
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)This study investigated the extent to which 517 teachers of English, French, German, and Spanish in Norwegian and Russian schools reported drawing on their and their students' multilingualism as a resource and boosting ... -
"Teen Noir" A Study of the Recent Film Noir Revival in the Teen Genre
(Master thesis, 2008-11-11)In the late 1990s I started to notice how tv-series and moviespicked up on common noir traits from the old classical noirmovies, such as rain, darkness and more dystopian plots. In2006 critics started paying attention to ... -
Tengo el orgullo de ser peruano y soy feliz": Estudio lingüístico-cultural de la representación del dialecto peruano en la música y la identidad nacional
(Master thesis, 2011)The main objective of this thesis was to find out whether or not the Peruvian dialect is a part of the Peruvian national identity, using music as a medium. To accomplish this objective, interviews were conducted in Trujillo, ... -
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?
(Master thesis, 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 a ... -
"That something better ought to come". Structure and canon formation in British literary history
(Master thesis, 2011-05-16)Literary historiography may, among other things, mean the study of how literary history is written. Taking as my departurepoint Hayden White's claim that history is fictional as well as factual, and that writing history ... -
The Fundamentals of Textbook English Vocabulary selection in L2 English textbooks for 1st and 2nd grade learners
(Master thesis, 2024-05-15)I denne korpus-baserte innholdsanalysen har målet vært å undersøke engelske lærebøker for 1. og 2. trinn på barneskolen skrevet for LK20, og da særlig ordvalget, for å se på i hvilken grad læreplanmål og forskning styrer ... -
The Use of Literature to Discuss Racism within the English Subject in the Norwegian Lower Secondary School: A Mixed-method Study.
(Master thesis, 2021-06-02)Denne studien tar for seg om, og i så fall hvordan, engelsklærere i ungdomskolen bruker skjønnlitteratur for å diskutere rasisme i engelskfaget. Det blir undersøkt hvordan lærerne definerer rasisme, deres refleksjoner rundt ... -
“They Made us into a Race. We Made Ourselves into a People”: A Corpus Study of Contemporary Black American Group Identity in the Non‑Fictional Writings of Ta‑Nehisi Coates
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)This article examines representations of contemporary Black American identity in the non-fictional writings of Ta-Nehisi Coates. The dataset is a self-compiled specialized corpus of Coates’s non-fictional writings from ... -
‘Things he wanted to say’ : Figures in the Dialogue of Raymond Carver’s Short Fiction
(Master thesis, 2016-05-18)Characterised as a ‘rejuvenator of the once-dying American short story’ (Nesset, blurb), Raymond Carver (1938–1988) represented something novel in the 20th century literature of the USA when his stories started to appear ... -
Third Time's the Charm: Revisions in Frances Hodgson Burnett's Story of Sara Crewe
(Master thesis, 2015-05-14)This Master's thesis examines Frances Hodgson Burnett's three versions of the story of Sara Crewe. The story was published as a novella, a play and a novel; Sara Crewe: Or What Happened at Miss Minchin's, The Little Princess ... -
'Thone vpon thother' - On pronouns one and other with initial th- and t- in Middle English
(Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2019)A frequent result produced by a search of the digital corpora of Middle English (henceforth ME) for instances of reduced th’ is a nominal involving the pronouns one or other with initial th- or t- attached. In this study ... -
"Those are the real gifts": Fictional representation of philanthropy in Anne Brontë's Agnes Grey and Mary Cholmondeley's Red Pottage
(Master thesis, 2010-05-18)This thesis addresses the representation of fictional philanthropy in two Victorian novels by two women writers; Anne Brontë's Agnes Grey and Mary Cholmondeley's Red Pottage. Philanthropy and the notion of the gift are ... -
Thought Experiments: Connections between genre and feminism in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness and Joanna Russ's The Female Man
(Master thesis, 2014-09-01)In this thesis, I show how the two novels The Left Hand of Darkness, by Ursula K. Le Guin, and The Female Man, by Joanna Russ, make use of the transformativity of speculative fiction in order to explore sex/gender. Speculative ... -
Time for Change. A Theory-driven, Corpus-based Study of Tense and Aspect in La Paz Spanish.
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Time is motion : a corpus-based study on the quantitative use of cognitive metaphors in translated and non-translated English
(Master thesis, 2011-11-21)Translation of cognitive metaphor is treated as a matter of conceptual equivalence or diversity between languages and cultures. Previous research on various language pairs (source and target language) has revealed a number ... -
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