Blar i Department of Foreign Languages and Translation på tittel
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Acquiring English Vocabulary Through Virtual Worlds : Exploring the connection between Norwegian EFL lower secondary pupils’ gaming habits, essay grades and written lexical richness in light of their attitudes
(Master thesis, 2019)The purpose of this study is to investigatethe connection between Norwegian lower secondary pupils’ gaming habits,their essay grades and their written lexical richness in English, as well as to offer ... -
Age-related effects on lexical, but not syntactic, processes during sentence production
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)ABSTRACT We investigated the effect of healthy ageing on the lexical and syntactic processes involved in sentence production. Young and older adults completed a semantic interference sentence production task: we manipulated ... -
Ambivalent Déjà-vu: World War II in the Poetry of the Northern Irish Troubles
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The article a(n) in English quantifying expressions: A default marker of cardinality
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Assessing bilingual language proficiency through self-ratings
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Attachment and Trauma in Toni Morrison’s God Help the Child
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Austerity and Education : The impact of austerity measures implemented between 2010 and 2015 on the English education system and the subsequent influence on inequality
(Master thesis, 2021)The thesis discusses whether the austerity measures implemented between 2010 and 2015 affected the education system and subsequently influenced inequality in England. The two research questions guide the examination of 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
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Between good end evil: on the moral ambiguity in "Buffy and the vampire slayer"
(Master thesis, 2007)Joss Whedon’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer aims to empower young women through a declared feminist agenda. The main body of this thesis explores what it is that makes Buffy a television show with a feminist agenda. This ... -
Beyond Gaming Video Games in the Classroom
(Master thesis, 2020)This thesis examines the effects of using a commercial video game in education. The thesis investigates earlier studies on video games and second language learning (L2), along with an analysis of the educational properties ... -
Bilingual corporate websites - from translation to transcreation?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)As an increasing number of companies see the world as their marketplace, bilingual and/or multilingual websites are becoming increasingly common, and the demand for translations in this domain is growing. Corporate websites ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Borders in Northern Ireland : Exploring borders related to Northern Ireland in two textbooks written for Social Studies English through the lenses of post-structuralism and border studies
(Master thesis, 2019)In a referendum in 2016, the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union. This event sparked a major debate concerning national identity and national borders, as the British society was divided in half, with almost ... -
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’ ... -
Can Hunter S. Thompson’s journalism/formulas create a solution for the crisis of today’s media?
(Master thesis, 2020)