Blar i Faculty of Arts and Education på tittel
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Tekstlesning på skjerm: noen implikasjoner av et digitalt grensesnitt for lesing og forståelse
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013-01)Digitale tekster har en rekke egenskaper som gjør dem forskjellige fra trykte tekster, og som kan innvirke på leseforståelsen. Forskning på digital lesing har særlig fokusert på kognitiv belastning ved hypertekst-lesing, ... -
Tenkende klasserom – bruk av dialog for tilrettelegging av elevers læring under problemløsning på vertikale tavler.
(Master thesis, 2022)Problemløsning i matematikkundervisningen vektlegges i ny læreplan. En måte å arbeide med problemløsning på, er gjennom det som kalles for et tenkende klasserom. Denne masterstudien posisjonerer seg innenfor et slikt ... -
Text Materialities, Affordances, and the Embodied Turn in the Study of Reading.
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-03)Digital texts have for decades been a challenge for reading research, creating a range of questions about reading and a need for new theories and concepts. In this paper, we focus on materialities of texts and suggest an ... -
Textual reading in digitised classrooms: Reflections on reading beyond the internet
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Discussions of digital technologies in education should take into consideration the role of analogue technologies – such as print books – especially when it comes to reading. Empirical research (Delgado et al., 2018; Kong ... -
The ABC of reading : perspectives on the alphabetic principle
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)An alphabetic writing system is a system in which words consist of individual letters that corre-spond to spoken-language units at a similar level of analysis. The systematic relationships between units of these two systems ... -
The Antagonistic Nature of Humans and Trauma’s Temporal Delay in Oryx and Crake.
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The assessment of English in two Norwegian upper secondary schools: A comparative study
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2013;, Master thesis, 2013-05-14)This thesis examines how two upper secondary schools in Norway approach the assessment of English at the first year level. It aims at comparing the teachers’ and pupils’ attitudes to, beliefs and experiences of assessment ... -
The Celebrated and the Condemned: Hypocritical Depictions of Edo-Period Courtesans as Seen in Contemporary Ukiyo-E
(Bachelor thesis, 2024)Edo-period courtesans have been portrayed as elegance and opulance given form in contemporary woodblock prints. However, does that adequately reflect the attitude towards these prostitutes? I will attempt to analyse this ... -
The correlation between Extramural English activities and vocabulary growth of High school students in Pakistan
(Master thesis, 2023)This thesis is about the English vocabulary growth of the 9th grade Pakistani students through the extramural English (EE) activities. The main purpose of this thesis was to find the correlation between Pakistan ninth ... -
The cult of the perfect mother: An investigation of motherhood and femininity in Joan Didion’s Blue Nights (2011), Jeanette Winterson’s Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? (2011) and Deborah Levy’s The Cost of Living (2018)
(Master thesis, 2022)This thesis takes its point of departure in the recognition that contemporary literary representations of female selfhood and motherhood are permeated by a neoliberal discourse of false idealizations, which can be traced ... -
The cultural significance of the governess in Agnes Grey, Jane Eyre and The Turn of the Screw
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2016;, Master thesis, 2016-05)My thesis explores how Victorian society viewed the women who did not live up to the female ideal created by patriarchy. I base my study on Anne Brontë’s (1820-1849) Agnes Grey (1847), Charlotte Brontë’s (1816-1855) Jane ... -
The cyborg as a posthuman figure in science fiction literature
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2015;, Master thesis, 2015-05-13)This thesis explores how cyborg figures within science fiction literature represent the posthuman, and function to comment on a contemporary process of posthumanization of the human species. It is a study of species ... -
The developing field of workplace learning and the contribution of PIAAC
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-08)There has been a prolific production of research papers on workplace learning (WPL) during the last two decades. Several reviews of the field discuss the development of themes, the use of foundational terms and some different ... -
The Dynamics of written-language acquisition
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2006)Written language skills are dynamic, they develop differently in individuals and are acquired in multiple ways and contexts. Paradoxically, mainstream research on and teaching of these skills is based on a linguistic ... -
The Effect of Performance on Gender and Identity in Contemporary Poetry
(Master thesis, 2018-05-11)This thesis aims to analyze what effect performance has had on contemporary poetry. This is based on the assumption that performance poetries like slam poetry, have not only changed poetry but also allowed poets to use ... -
The effects of iconic gestures on L2 vocabulary learning in a Norwegian primary school
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2014;, Master thesis, 2014)The present study aimed to evaluate the effects of iconic gestures on young learners’ vocabulary acquisition in L2 settings. The main purpose of the study was, therefore, to determine the effects of teacher and learner ... -
The effects of self-induced multi-bar massage rolling on physical performance in collegiate level athletes
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IGIS/2019;, Master thesis, 2019-06)Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of 5-, 10-, and 15-minute massage with a mechanical self-induced multi-bar massage roller on balance, anaerobic power, and anaerobic and aerobic capacity. ... -
The English receptive and productive vocabulary size of Norwegian 10th graders and the influence of extramural English
(Master thesis, 2024)The present thesis is a study of the English vocabulary size of 70 Norwegian 10th grade pupils. The aim was to find the receptive and productive vocabulary size of English learners at lower secondary school. Additional ... -
The everlasting grip of Kazuo Ishiguro`s Never Let Me Go: empathy, narrative and a bureaucratic system
(Bachelor thesis, 2021)The aim of this thesis is to analyze and exhibit how the narrator and clones in Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro are unable to break out of a bureaucratic system. I will also be looking at how the specific narration makes ... -
The exclusive use of authentic material instead of textbooks/smartbooks in the EFL/ESL classroom from 8th grade and onwards in Norway
(Master thesis, 2023)Despite the fact that the English Curriculum in Norway does not make the use of textbooks compulsory, most teachers in Norwegian schools use a textbook or a smartbook to teach English from 1st to 10th grade. This project ...