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A case study of the effect of formative assessment on the English writing development, accuracy and motivation of pupils in a Nowegian 7th grade.
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2017;, Master thesis, 2017-05-12)This thesis is based on a study of the effect of formative assessment on 7th grade pupils’ written English development, accuracy and motivation in a primary school in Norway. The pupils were provided feedback digitally by ... -
A case study of the impact of free voluntary web-surfing on reading comprehension and motivation in an upper secondary EFL class in Norway
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2017;, Master thesis, 2017-05)The current study was a case study of the impact of a three-month free voluntary web surfing (FVS) programme on pupils’ reading and motivation in a Norwegian upper secondary VG2 International English classroom (elective ... -
A Study of Teacher Cognition and Literature Teaching at the Upper Secondary Level
(Master thesis, 2017-05-12)This thesis has aimed at exploring teacher cognition (attitudes, beliefs, knowledge, and practices) in relation to literature teaching in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classrooms at the upper-secondary level in Norway. ... -
A study of the teaching and learning of expository and persuasive writing in English in Norwegian upper secondary level elective English classes.
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2017;, Master thesis, 2017-05)This qualitative case study investigates the teaching and learning of writing in English in Norwegian upper secondary level elective English classes, namely International English, Social Studies English and English Literature ... -
Abject Relationships: Expressing Affection with Violence in Phaedra's Love
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2020;, Master thesis, 2020-08-31)This thesis argues that Sarah Kane’s “Phaedra’s Love” is designed to open a discussion on the struggles of the feminine sexual and emotional identity and its relationship with desire, framed as abject in the male dominated ... -
Autonomous while reading: A quantitative and qualitative study of the relationship between Norwegian VG1 student’s perceptions of Learner Autonomy and Reading Literacy.
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2017;, Master thesis, 2017-05-12)Abstract: The aim and purpose of this thesis is to explore and investigate the relationship between the student’s perceptions of learner autonomy and reading literacy amongst Norwegian VG1 students of English. This ... -
Comics in Norwegian upper secondary EFL classrooms – Teacher’s attitudes to comics and how their textbooks present them.
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2017;, Master thesis, 2017-05)The aim of the present master’s thesis was to find out how a selected group of teachers view comics in general, and to look at the use of comics in their textbooks. Three textbooks, Targets, Gateways YF and Access, were ... -
Facing the Gaze: The Cinematic Romanticisation of the Serial Killer in Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2020;, Master thesis, 2020-08-31)A dominant trend in theories on serial killer cinema has been the notion of the serial killer celebrity. However, it may be argued that cinema in fact goes further than merely creating celebrity killers. More disturbingly ... -
Harry Baggins and the claim of Edward James: A comparative analysis of The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien and The Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2020;, Master thesis, 2020-08-31)Over the last few decades fantasy have become a very prominent part of both academia and popular culture. It is generally agreed upon that The Lord of the Rings trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien played a massive part in this ... -
Implementing wiki as a writing platform in a 10th grade EFL classroom
(Master thesis, 2017-05)This thesis aims to investigate how to use the online writing platform Wikispace in the English classroom and whether implementing wiki writing can have an effect on pupils’ motivation for writing and their writing ... -
Investigating literacy promoting activities in the preschool years. A case study of preschool children in an English-speaking kindergarten in Norway.
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2017;, Master thesis, 2017-05-12)Abstract This research has investigated literacy-promoting activities in the pre-school years. The research was performed in the form of a case study in an English-speaking kindergarten in Norway. The study addressed ... -
“One Day I Shall Meditate In Falling Snow:” Meditation and Eastern Ways of Perceiving in Peter Matthiessen’s The Snow Leopard and George Schaller’s Stones of Silence
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2020;, Master thesis, 2020-08-31)Peter Matthiessen’s The Snow Leopard, published in 1978, has remained a well-known work on reading lists incorporating nature writing and Eastern Buddhist thought. It has not, however, received much scholarly treatment ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
Selected Metadiscourse Markers in Academic Writing: Exploring the Distribution in the BAWE Corpus
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2020;, Master thesis, 2020-08)The study of metadiscourse markers is central to this thesis, based on the insights and framework embraced by Hyland who is a pioneer in this discipline. Metadiscourse is understood as an approach in which a writer or a ... -
Subjectivity in Three Postmodern Novels by Don DeLillo and Paul Auster: Mao II, Cosmopolis and Leviathan
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2017;, Master thesis, 2017-05-12)This thesis explores how fictional characters come to occupy subject positions through ideological processes such as interpellation. It studies how the subject positions the character occupy define their whole lives; even ... -
The Illuminating Power of Fiction: A Reading of A.L. Kennedy’s Day, Ian McEwan’s Atonement, and Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything is Illuminated.
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2017;, Master thesis, 2017-05-12)Can fiction contribute to history? Through a reading of A.L. Kennedy’s Day, Ian McEwan’s Atonement, and Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything is Illuminated, this thesis explores how three contemporary novels, written by authors ... -
The Unpleasure of Modern Bliss and Its Legacy for the Implied Reader
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2020;, Master thesis, 2020-08-31)This thesis will explore how modernist authors’ approach towards challenging easy pleasures offers an unpleasurable, but ultimately positive reading experience for the implied reader. Textual “blanks” will, in relation to ... -
Visual Representations of Gender in English Foreign Language Textbooks and 10th Graders’ Reflections on Gender Equality and Visual Literacy
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2017;, Master thesis, 2017-05-12)This thesis presents a class of 10th graders ability to reflect on gender equality and visual representations, and how well four English Foreign Language (EFL) textbooks promote the Norwegian Curriculum’s general aim on ... -
Words Are Wind: Investigating Literacy and Power in A Song of Ice and Fire.
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2017;, Master thesis, 2017-05-11)The proposed thesis seeks to investigate how some of the characters of the book series A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R.Martin are limited by different social structures of masculinity, physical prowess, feudal power ...