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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Investigating the Distribution of L1 and L2 in Student-Student Interaction : A mixed-method study of student-student interaction in a Norwegian EFL classroom
(Master thesis, 2021)In English as a foreign language (EFL)learning, communicative competence is viewed as an important skill according to the English subject curriculum in Norway. In Norwegian EFL classrooms, pupils are often tasked with ... -
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 ... -
The African American Experience: Race and racism in the literary creations of Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye (1970), Sula (1973), and Beloved (1987)
(Master thesis, 2022)This thesis examines how the literary characters in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye (1970), Sula (1973), and Beloved (1987) are inflicted by racial discrimination. The novels depict a society that promotes white privilege, ... -
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 ... -
The Object of the Phallus: A Psychoanalytic Feminist Analysis of Kate Chopin’s The Awakening and Elizabeth Gaskell’s Ruth.
(Master thesis, 2022)Much scholarly attention has been paid to the patriarchal constraints governing the lives of women. In this context, the role of discourse in the formation of representations of women is seminal to the feminist cause. The ... -
English vs. Esperanto: A comparative study of clausal word order in a Minimalist framework
(Master thesis, 2022)Both English and Esperanto are international auxiliary languages, but English is deemed as an SVO language with rigid word order, while Esperanto, although considered predominantly SVO, allows for relatively free constituent ... -
The Power of Many Stories: Afropolitanism in Teju Cole's Open City and Chimamanda Adichie's Americanah
(Master thesis, 2022)Denne masteroppgaven tar for seg Afropolitanisme som et paradigmeskifte i postkolonial litteratur og teori. Jeg belyser Afropolitanisme gjennom bøkene Open City av Teju Cole og Americanah av Chimamanda Adichie. -
Free will in a simulated reality: “How does agency panic affect the decisions of Matrix characters”?
(Master thesis, 2022)Analysis of choices i the Matrix universe, looking for the effect agency panic has on the character's decision-making. -
'To Leave or to Remain': Trauma, Loss and the Reinvention of the Self in Rachel Cusk’s Outline trilogy
(Master thesis, 2022)This thesis will examine trauma and loss in Rachel Cusk’s Outline trilogy: Outline (2014), Transit (2016) and Kudos (2018), and how it opposes and supplements another narrative, that of conversion and the reinvention of ... -
When Reader Becomes Player: A study of future narratives, agency, the ludonarrative framework, and morals within the ludic experience.
(Master thesis, 2022)Video games have broken their niche appeal, becoming a mainstream medium on par with literature and cinema. The popularity of the medium is not the only thing which has evolved, but also the capacity for video games to ... -
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 ... -
A study of despondency and trauma in Edgar Allan Poe's life and literature
(Master thesis, 2022)