Master's theses in English: Nye registreringer
Viser treff 21-40 av 129
-
Worlds Ablaze : The insidious traumata of the future anterior in Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 (1953) and Cormac McCarthy’s The Road (2006)
(Master thesis, 2021)This thesis examines the novels Fahrenheit 451 (1953) and The Road (2006), two future-set dystopian narratives that extrapolate on their contemporary and ongoing traumas. This paper explores the novels through the lens of ... -
Bound by society: Social identity in A Room with a View and The Rainbow
(Master thesis, 2021)The thesis presents a reading of the modernist novels The Rainbow (1915) by D.H. Lawrence and A Room with a View (1908) by E.M. Forster with a view at highlighting the factors that contribute to the formation of characters’ ... -
‘The Invisible Blood Pours Forth’ : Trauma in Margaret Atwood’s The Blind Assassin and Maria Padian’s Wrecked
(Master thesis, 2021)This thesis investigates Margaret Atwood’s The Blind Assassin (2000) and Maria Padian’s Wrecked (2016), and examine how the characters are affected by sexual trauma and rape culture. The novels depict a society that creates ... -
Extensive Reading and Language Accuracy Development in the ESL Classroom : A case study of extensive reading and lower secondary learner language in Norway
(Master thesis, 2021)Reading is an activity with many positive effects, one of which is arguably language improvement. This thesis aims to reinforce this claim by exploring the effects of extensive reading on language skills amongst Norwegian ... -
Young Norwegian Learners’ Perception and Recognition of English Variants : Relationships with language exposure and media intake
(Master thesis, 2021)English as a tool of communication is emphasized in the Norwegian subject curriculum reform of 2020, and no competence aims are directly connected towards the choice of English variant. The present study investigates young ... -
Conspiracy, Agential Angst and Resistance in Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 and Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451
(Master thesis, 2021)This study explores how powerful institutions influence the lives of individuals in the post-war American society as presented in two novels: Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 and Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451. It focuses on the ... -
«Better never means better for everyone» : Dystopian Features in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Herland and Marge Piercy’s Woman on the Edge of Time
(Master thesis, 2021)Available from 01/07/2026 -
Video Games And Learning : A theoretical approach to the use of commercial-off-the-shelf video games in Norwegian upper secondary education
(Master thesis, 2021)This thesis explores the educational potential of commercial video games. With LK20, games and gaming have become integral part of Norwegian education, especially with a specific aim in the new English subject curriculum ... -
Investigating the Teaching and Learning of British and American Culture in Norwegian Upper Secondary School
(Master thesis, 2021)This thesis is an investigation of teachers’ influence on pupils related to cultural knowledge in upper secondary. A semi-structured interview with three teachers provide data that is compared with a survey questionnaire ... -
Tip-of-the-Tongue (TOT) States in Norwegian-English Bilinguals : Effects of Word Frequency, Cognate Status, Noun Type, and Bilingual Profiles
(Master thesis, 2021)This study investigates the effects of language, word frequency, cognate status, noun type, and different bilingual profiles on tip-of-the-tongue (TOT) states in Norwegian-English bilinguals. Furthermore, the study aimed ... -
The Scope of Bilingual Sentence Planning in L1 and L2 : Effects of Complexity and Bilingual Profile
(Master thesis, 2021)Investigating the scope of bilingual sentence planning, this two-component study compared first and second language sentence production at different complexity level sin relation to aspects of bilingual profile. Norwegian-English ... -
Investigating tip-of-the-tongue states in Norwegian-English bilinguals : Effects of word frequency, cognate status and noun type in word retrieval, in relation to the bilingual profile
(Master thesis, 2021)The current study aimed to explore the effects of frequency, cognate status and noun type in tip-of-the-tongue occurrences in Norwegian-English bilinguals. In what manner the bilingual profile may exert influence on the ... -
Like Stripes on a Chokecherry Tree : Representations of Trauma and Consolidation of History in Neo-slave Narratives
(Master thesis, 2021)Literature has long been utilised to provide commentary on social and political injustices, give voice to discriminated peoples, and provide context in relation to social and cultural history. The aim of this thesis was ... -
Racist chants in contemporary English Premier League : A study of English football supporters’ racist language
(Master thesis, 2021)This thesis explores the English supporter culture in contemporary English Premier League, focusing on racist football chants. It discusses why selected football supporters or groups choose to express racist content when ... -
Bilingual Spoken Word Comprehension: Effects of Sentence Context : A comparison of Norwegian-English bilinguals’ speech recognition in Norwegian and in English as a second language
(Master thesis, 2021)This master thesis is part of a bigger master project aiming to expand our understanding of speech processing. In three sub-projects –speech production, speech comprehension, and word finding –six master students investigated ... -
Effects of cognate status, noun type, frequency, and bilingual profile on the tip-of-the-tongue (TOT) phenomenon in Norwegian-English bilinguals
(Master thesis, 2021)This experimental thesis aimed to investigate the effects of cognate status, frequency, and noun type on the tip-of-the-tongue (TOT) phenomenon in Norwegian-English bilinguals, and how their performance in these ... -
Bilingual speech comprehension in context : Predictive sentence processing in second language listening
(Master thesis, 2021)The project aims to extend our understanding of the relationship between language profile, proficiency and speech comprehension in English by investigating three-sentence contexts of mixed word order, low-constraint sentence ... -
Dyslexia in bilingualism : A case study of an English-Norwegian bilingual child with developmental dyslexia
(Master thesis, 2021)This study investigates the interactions between dyslexia and bilingualism, and aims to observe how dyslexia presents itself in a bilingual individual. The importance of language similarity, orthographic ... -
Joy of Reading in the ESL Classroom : Can reading a self-selected graphic novel create joy of reading and lead to free voluntary reading for vocational English pupils? A case study
(Master thesis, 2021)In this thesis I look at whether reading a self-selected graphic novel can lead to joy of reading, and if it increases the likelihood of free voluntary reading. The study was conducted in a Norwegian vocational ...