Master's theses in English
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Gaming for language learning: Something to do in schools? What kinds of games and how they can be used in the English classroom to facilitate language learning: a teacher’s guide.
(Master thesis, 2020)Gaming can aid in language learning, and this thesis researches the current pedagogical beliefs and attitudes towards gaming based on survey and interview answers from English teachers in Norway .A mixed-methods approach ... -
Muslim Otherness in Post-9/11 Novels A postcolonial outlook on the fictional representation of Muslim otherness in post 9/11 novels.
(Master thesis, 2020)The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001,led many Americans to vilify Muslims and Islam. Indeed, 9/11 bequeathed to the U.S. a new category of evil other, a decade and more after the “evil empire” of the USSR had been ... -
‘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 ... -
How Businessman Trump Seized the Opportunity to Defeat the Political Establishment
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The Language of Lone Wolf Terrorists An in-depth study of the use of personal pronouns and identity terms in lone wolf terrorist manifestos
(Master thesis, 2020)This thesis examines the manifestos written by four lone wolf terrorists, Elliot Rodger, Dylann Roof, Christopher Harper-Mercer, and Patrick Crusius before they carried out mass killings in the United States. By conducting ... -
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 ... -
Politics of Identity Exploring the relevance and salience of identity as a political concept within contemporary American politics
(Master thesis, 2020)This thesis examines how politics became identity and how politicized identities are shaping contemporary American politics. Identity as a political concept in the Western sphere evolved by virtue of our human thymotic ... -
“We’re Using Up the Earth. It’s Almost Gone ”Apocalyptic fiction, environmental awareness,and critique of anthropocentric and capitalist society in Margaret Atwood’ MaddAddam trilogy
(Master thesis, 2020)This thesis explores Margaret Atwood’s novels Oryxand Crake (2003), The Year of the Flood (2009), and MaddAddam (2013),and their criticism of anthropocentric and capitalist society. The novels depicta world where the planet ... -
Digital gaming and other out-of-school L2 activities:A mixed-method study of the relationship between extracurricular English language practices and English vocabulary and grammar skills in a cohort of Norwegian ninth graders
(Master thesis, 2020)The present mixed-method study investigated the influence of digital gaming and other extracurricular English (EE) language practices on the English vocabulary and grammar skills of a group of Norwegian ninth ... -
The Depiction of Trauma in Alan Moore’s V for Vendetta and Watchmen
(Master thesis, 2020)This thesis will explore the depiction of trauma in Alan Moore’s graphic novels V for Vendetta and Watchmen . It aims to examine how something as unrepresentable as trauma ... -
‘Raised by Wolves ’U2,Trauma& The Troubles
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Parental Strategies and Embodied Hope of Children in Post-Apocalyptic Works The Road and Bird Box: A study of Literary and Film Adaptation Strategies
(Master thesis, 2020)This thesis investigates alternate parental strategies in Post-Apocalyptic fiction by examining the core family units in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road and Josh Malerman’s Bird Box. Additionally, I will analyse their respective ... -
The Transtextuality of Cline’s Ready Player One Comparative Analysis into the Effect of Transtextuality, and the Subsequent Emancipation of its Reader.
(Master thesis, 2020)This analysis looks into the history behind the concept of transtextuality as articulated by Genette, and its implications to the notion of there being a correct way to read. Arguably, Barthes’ Death of the Author gave ... -
Humanization of the Science Fiction Alien
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Behind the teaching of American culture in the second language classroom
(Master thesis, 2019)In this thesis, anempirical study will show how different teachers might differ in their way of teaching Americanculture in the Norwegianclassroom. Three main questions have been made to structure theway in which the study ... -
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 ...
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