Blar i Department of Cultural Studies and Languages (HF-IKS) på emneord "lesevitenskap"
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Orality in Lifestyle Blogs Written by L1 and L2 Speakers of English: Four Case Studies
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2018;, Master thesis, 2018-05)The present study explores the differences in Norwegian and English blog writers’ use of rhetorical strategies in an informal writing style. The focus is on four lifestyle blogs, two which are written by speakers with ... -
Our Monsters, ourselves - An analysis of the modern monster in The Fall and Hannibal
(Master thesis, 2016-05-10)The monster has been a popular figure in Western society for centuries, as a notion that has both fascinated and frightened its members. The aim of this thesis is to investigate the modern, moral monster that exists within ... -
Overall achievement- and exam grades in English - two of a kind? A study of assessment practices in Norwegian lower secondary school.
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2020;, Master thesis, 2020-05)This study concerns the deviations between overall achievement- and exam grades in the English subject at lower secondary schools in Norway. The aim of the study is to describe and compare deviations between overall ... -
Parental attitudes to bilingualism and parental strategies for developing first and second language skills in bilingual children
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2014;, Master thesis, 2014-05-14)A number of studies have been carried out on parental attitudes to bilingualism and parental strategies for developing bilingual children’s language skills in the mother tongue and the second language. However, few studies ... -
Past Tense, Future Perfect? Explorations of Identities in Sylvia Plath´s The Bell Jar, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie´s Half of a Yellow Sun, and Zadie Smith´s White Teeth
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2017;, Master thesis, 2017-05-12)Socially constructed ideas about what it means to be female affect women today, as they always have. Throughout history, these ideas have manifested themselves through expectations and demands that women should conform to ... -
Pastorale naturfremstillinger i Helge Ingstads Nunamiut – en økokritisk lesning.
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2020;, Master thesis, 2020-11-16)Denne masteravhandlingen er en økokritisk lesning av Helge Ingstads Nunamiut – blant Alaskas innlandseskimoer som han skrev i 1951 etter sitt opphold blant innlands-inuittene i Brooks-fjellene Nord i Alaska. Avhandlingen ... -
The phrasing of commands and requests in late medieval letters from superiors: an edition and study of ten command letters
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2020;, Master thesis, 2020-08-31)The thesis presents an edition and study of ten late medieval letters from the late 15th century and early 16th century. The texts are dated to the period 1458–1504. All the letters may be classified as command letters, ... -
Please press Z to question nothing - vegar gjennom tekst
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2018;, Master thesis, 2018-05)Denne avhandlinga har som formål å undersøke litteraturundervisning i skulen i lys av skule- og literacyforsking og spelteori, og har som premiss at ei endring frå dialogorientert til elevorientert undervisning gjev meir ... -
Presenting the self in social media
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2010;, Master thesis, 2010)This thesis is concerned with the representation of self in new and social media such as blogs. The research question is: How do bloggers express the self in multi modal representations? The thesis objects of study are ... -
Priming effects in early readers. A quantitative study of children's response times in visual lexical decision-making in their first and second language.
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2016;, Master thesis, 2016-05)This thesis investigates the effects of various conditions of open priming on children in a series of lexical decision tasks in their first and second language. The primes are related through meaning and/or form to the ... -
Procedural representation of marginalized groups: playing disabled, playing queer
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2014;, Master thesis, 2014-05-16)In AAA games, minority representation is still scarce and often misrepresentative, but the indie games scene has many examples of inclusion of marginalized groups and minority experiences. How can videogame mechanics be ... -
Promoting EFL oral skills in and outside school: Norwegian lower secondary students’ and their EFL teachers’ experiences and beliefs
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2019;, Master thesis, 2019-05-05)This thesis focused on the topic of Norwegian lower secondary students’ promotion of English as a foreign language (EFL) oral skills, namely listening and speaking, in and outside the EFL classroom and in particular ... -
PSYCHIC SURVIVAL: Sovereignty, Madness and Anxiety in Alexis Wright's The Swan Book
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2019;, Master thesis, 2019-05)I argue that through representations of ‘madness’ in The Swan Book, Alexis Wright reclaims and (re-)defines Indigenous sovereignty as embodied, that is, something which for Indigenous people is felt and realised through ... -
Rammer for kreativitet: En studie av hvordan elever i en klasse på Vg3 opplever rammer for kreativ skriving
(Masteroppgave/UIS-UH-IKS/2020;, Master thesis, 2020-05-11)Å utvikle elevenes kreative ferdigheter er sentralt i fremtidens skole. Denne masteroppgaven retter fokus mot elevenes kreative skriving i norskfaget. Den overordnede problemstillingen er: Hvordan opplever elever i en ... -
Reading and writing workshops in the EFL classroom: A longitudinal study of the workshop-based method in a Norwegian 8th grade EFL class.
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2016;, Master thesis, 2016-05-12)The current study is based on the implementation of a reading and writing workshop-based program in the English as a foreign language (EFL) lessons of a Norwegian 8th grade class of nine pupils. Seven of these pupils ... -
Reading pictograms and signs - the need for visual literacy
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2011;, Master thesis, 2011)Reading pictograms and signs – the need for visual literacy is a study of the impact pictorial signs have on the social and physical environment, and, by extension, on media and visual culture. From the many possibilities ... -
Reflections on multicultural education: Teachers’ experiences of teaching multicultural classes
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2020;, Master thesis, 2020-05)This thesis investigates teachers’ experiences of and attitudes towards multicultural education and its implementation in Norwegian schools. A further aspiration of this paper is to examine the extent to which teachers ... -
Representations of French linguistic borrowing in early modern England
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2016;, Master thesis, 2016-05)This thesis examines the early modern debates surrounding the incorporation of French loanwords into the English vocabulary through an analysis of the prefaces of a variety of early modern English dictionaries and a selection ... -
Representations of Home and Identity for the Migrant Woman in Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West (2017)
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2019;, Master thesis, 2019-05-05)This thesis analyzes the representation of the migrant woman in Moshin Hamid’s Exit West (2017) by focusing on the text’s engagement with the diasporic concepts of home and identity. In essence, this study explores the ... -
Samspeltekstar i poesi av Helge Torvund
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2013;, Master thesis, 2013-06-07)For meg er det særskilt ordkunsten i Helge Torvunds diktning som vekker interesse. Eg opplever at dikta hans opnar for interessante refleksjonar om kreftene i språket og om ekspressivitet i motiv, tematikk og det ...