Master's theses in English: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
Humanization of the Science Fiction Alien
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
‘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 ... -
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 ... -
“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 ... -
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 ... -
Assessing bilingual language proficiency through self-ratings
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Role-playing in Norwegian EFL classrooms : The pedagogy behind Reacting to the Past meeting the “silent classroom”
(Master thesis, 2019)This thesis is a study of the use of the pedagogy behind Reacting to the Past (RTTP) in Norwegian EFLclassrooms. Thethesisstatement is, “RTTP can transform Norwegian EFL classrooms from silence to engagement.”The ... -
Tip-of-the-tongue states in Norwegian-English bilinguals : Investigating word-finding difficulties and its connection to bilingual profile
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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 ...