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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 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’ ... -
Britain’s Alternating Immigration Discourse
(Master thesis, 2023)This thesis will investigate whether British immigration discourse has gone in a circle for the last 20 years. Following on from that, it will also attempt to determine whether the government’s discourse and policy on ... -
Can Hunter S. Thompson’s journalism/formulas create a solution for the crisis of today’s media?
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Climate Change Literature in the English Subject Classroom : Discussing how English teachers can use Young Adult Climate Fiction to teach about sustainability and the consequences of climate change
(Master thesis, 2020)This thesis explores the Young Adult DystopiaThe Sandcastle Empireby Kayla Olson and the Young Adult Climate FictionsThe Final Six and The Life Belowby Alexandra Monir and their different depictions of a future world ... -
Comics in the Classroom : How comics can aid in a pupil’s reading experience
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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 ... -
COVID-19 Neologisms: a Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis
(Master thesis, 2024)The COVID-19 pandemic brought about global changes to everyday life. This thesis investigates the emergence of neologisms in the English language in response to these changes. By collecting data from social media, specialized ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
The emergence of christianity within the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Northumbria : an exploration into its earlist roots and an investigation in to the influences it had on the culture in the region then and today
(Master thesis, 2007)This thesis commences with a description of Pre-Roman and Roman Britain, to identify the people who lived in Northumbria and their background. The description then progresses with an explanation about the withdrawal of ... -
Enemies, Foreign and Domestic. An exploration into the effects of the trauma of war and sexual violence depicted in Helen Benedict’s novels, "Sand Queen" and "Wolf Season".
(Master thesis, 2024)In my thesis I wish to explore the consequences of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan by applying trauma theory in an analysis of Helen Benedict’s novels, "Sand Queen", and "Wolf Season". In these two novels, the author ...