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Reacting to the Past in an EFL-classroom : How does RTTP promote oral communication and development of critical thinking in a Norwegian EFL-classroom?
(Master thesis, 2019)This thesis investigates how RTTP(Reacting to the Past)promotes the development of oral communication and critical thinking in an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) -classroom.RTTP is an activerole-play methodwhich is ... -
Reclaiming Authorship : A Thematic Approach to the Poetry of Elise Cowen
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Religious Implications in John Milton's Paradise Lost and Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan
(Master thesis, 2022)This thesis aims to demonstrate the opposing religious and political standards in John Milton’s Paradise Lost (1667) and in Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan (1651). A comparison of the two respective authors illustrates ... -
The role of the conservative learner in the rise and fall of verb-second
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)This paper argues that the diachronic rise and fall of verb-second grammars is tied to the conservative nature of child structure projection and movement postulation, within a Minimalist syntax. For the rise of V2, we ... -
Role-playing in Norwegian EFL classrooms : The pedagogy behind Reacting to the Past meeting the “silent classroom”
(Master thesis, 2019)This thesis is a study of the use of the pedagogy behind Reacting to the Past (RTTP) in Norwegian EFLclassrooms. Thethesisstatement is, “RTTP can transform Norwegian EFL classrooms from silence to engagement.”The ... -
Root canals : identity in Zadie Smith`s White teeth
(Master thesis, 2007) -
Sacred Ground : Orthodoxy, Poetry and Religious Change
(Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2023) -
Satire's corrective function: Jon Steward and post-modern, generative satire
(Master thesis, 2012) -
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 ... -
Secondary grammaticalization and the English adverbial –ly suffix
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014)This paper discusses the secondary grammaticalization of the English adverbial -ly suffix and makes claims about the concept of secondary grammaticalization. Secondary grammaticalization is defined as the development of a ... -
The silencing of women in westerns : a psychoanalytic, lacanian, and feminist approach
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‘Some degree of hope’ A queer reading of two young adult novels in post-agreement Northern Ireland
(Master thesis, 2020)In 2018, a report published by Stonewall UK revealed that 52 per cent of LGBT individuals struggled with depression in the past year. The same year, an article claimed that Northern Ireland had the highest prevalence of ... -
’Someone stole my story’ : Home and Trauma in Two Palestinian Novels
(Master thesis, 2018)This thesis will examine representations of home and trauma in the Palestinian novels Mornings in Jenin (2008) by Susan Abulhawa and Salt Houses (2017) by Hala Alyan. Written by Palestinian refugees now living in the United ... -
South Park´s ambiguoues satiric expression
(Master thesis, 2010) -
Spoken word production in Norwegian-English bilinguals Investigating effects of bilingual profile and articulatory divergence
(Doctoral Dissertations at the University of Agder;443, Doctoral thesis, 2023)This thesis investigates the effects of individual differences in bilingual profile and articulatory divergence on bilingual spoken word production. During bilingual word production both languages are to some degree active, ... -
Staging the Narrative
(Master thesis, 2023)Throughout this thesis, I will look at the concept album as a discursive genre with a focus on La Dispute’s second full-length album Wildlife, released in 2011. By engaging with the narrative and the performance of Wildlife, ... -
Stephen King's possession machines : "agency panic" in Cristine and The Tommyknockers
(Master thesis, 2013) -
Storytelling in Video Games: An Analytical Approach to Naughty Dog's The Last of Us Part II
(Master thesis, 2022)This thesis investigates how video games tell stories, and if video games can be analyzed in the same way as we would analyze a literary work of fiction. To answer these questions, I will start by investigating the field ...