Blar i Faculty of Arts and Education på emneord "VDP::Humanities: 000::Linguistics: 010"
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A qualitative study on preparing EFL students to take the TOEFL internet-based (iBT) test in the Ukrainian context
(Master thesis, 2016-06)The thesis at hand is a qualitative study that aimed at exploring methods and tasks used by teachers in Ukraine while preparing students to take the Test of English as a Foreign Language internet-based version (TOEFL iBT). ... -
Cognitive predictors of shallow-orthography spelling speed and accuracy in 6th grade children
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017-05-31)Spelling accuracy and time course was investigated in a sample of 100 Norwegian 6th grade students completing a standardized spelling-to-dictation task. Students responded by keyboard with accurate recordings of response-onset ... -
Investigating Frequency and Type of Lexical Collocations in Applied Linguistics Journal Articles Written in English by Iranian and Norwegian Scholars
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2018;, Master thesis, 2018-11-15)In today’s academic world, the research interest in corpus linguistics has shifted towards word co-occurrence rather than single words. Accordingly, a great body of literature has been devoted to investigations of recurrent ... -
Magnus Olsens forskning om dei norske staðir- og land-namna
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2010-01)The topic of this article is Magnus Olsen's study of settlement names ending in -stad (ON - staðir) and - land. In NG as well as in Olsen's book Ættegård og helligdom (1926), published in English in 1928 with the title ... -
Navngivningsprinsipper og språkutvikling
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012-02)Place-name semantics have been discussed in many ways. In this article the author discusses the reasons behind naming, and how to classify place-names in this respect. One question which can be raised, is: When we consider ... -
Official urban naming : cultural heritage and identity
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2007)In modern cities naming forms part of urban planning. The naming principles often reflect cultural aspects like heritage, local tradition and identity. Official urban names are links to the past and signs of continuity and ... -
The notion of phonology in dyslexia research : cognitivism - and beyond
(Journal article, 2007)Phonology has been a central concept in the scientific study of dyslexia over the past decades. Despite its central position, however, it is a concept with no precise definition or status. The present article investigates ... -
What are skills? Some fundamental reflections
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)When the concept of ‘skill’ is used in reading and writing research or more generally in linguis-tic research, it is rarely made the subject of detailed and precise definitions or reflections. The present article is a ...