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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
(Master thesis, 2019)Konfidensiell til / confidential until 01.07.2024 -
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 ... -
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
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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 ...