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Peace in the feminist garden : the feminist utopias of the ‘70s and the mythologies of the West
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“The Road Not Taken”: poetry and personal insight in the EFL classroom and beyond
(Master thesis, 2016)This qualitative study examines how Norwegian tenth graders show personal insight through the reading of the poem “The Road Not Taken”. The research is based on the responses from two English classes in a lower secondary ... -
Is the Brazilian Portuguese phrase estar indo, i.e. be going [to], being grammaticalized into an auxiliary, and if that is the case, is it a borrowing from English? : A comparative study of the grammaticalization of Early Modern English be going to and the Present-Day Brazilian Portuguese estar indo
(Master thesis, 2018)The aim of this thesis is to compare the grammaticalization of English be going to and Brazilian Portuguese estar indo (i.e. the equivalent to English be going to) in order to investigate whether the phrase is grammaticalizing ... -
Reclaiming Authorship : A Thematic Approach to the Poetry of Elise Cowen
(Master thesis, 2018) -
When dad becomes a woman : A Critical Discourse Studies approach to gender performativity in American and Norwegian reality TV and documentary film
(Master thesis, 2018)In this master's thesis I have wanted to say something about male-to-female transgender identity construction and the way in which it takes place in ordinary life. I have investigated how two different families negotiate ... -
Attachment and Trauma in Toni Morrison’s God Help the Child
(Master thesis, 2018) -
On the Yellow Brick Road : Fantasy, Fairy Tales, and the Coming of Age Journey
(Master thesis, 2018) -
Word Neighbor Priming in Bilingual Sentence Reading: Evidence from Eye Movements
(Master thesis, 2018)This study investigates English sentence reading processes in Norwegian-English bilinguals. It aims to explore the effects of word form overlap and its connection to second-language (L2) English proficiency. We recorded ... -
’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 ... -
“You Know, It’s Like Everywhere. Nothing’s Doing what it’s Supposed to Anymore” : A Corpus-based Study on Sociolinguistic Distribution of the Discourse Markers Like and You Know
(Master thesis, 2019)Discourse markers are sometimes socially stigmatized by people, and researchers conducting corpus-based studies report contradictory results about sociolinguistic distribution of such items. This study focuses on the two ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Comics in the Classroom : How comics can aid in a pupil’s reading experience
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Tip-of-the-tongue states among Norwegian-English bilinguals : Investigating the bilingual disadvantage in word finding and its relationship to the bilingual language profile
(Master thesis, 2019)The objective of this study was to investigatehow the bilingual disadvantage of word finding relates to the bilingual language profile. In two experiments 30 Norwegian-English bilinguals were presented with definitions of ... -
Planning Sentences in Second Language English : Effects of Language Similarity and Language Proficiency
(Master thesis, 2019)This experiment examines the effects of syntactic structure, interlingual word similarity, and semantic relationships on second-language English sentence production and planning scope. Syntactic structure was manipulated ...