Master's theses (HF-IKS)
Masteoppgaver i Lesevitenskap / Masteroppgaver i Literacy studies / Masteoppgaver i Historiedidaktikk
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Skrivekompetanse i norskfaget på vidaregåande skule. Ein studie av kvalitetsforskjellar i elevtekstar
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2018;, Master thesis, 2018-06)Denne oppgåva undersøkjer kvalitetsskilnader i eit utval norskfaglege tekstar skrivne av elevar på siste året på vidaregåande i studieførebuande studieretninga. Problemstillinga er: Kva skil tekstar som har fått svært god ... -
The prevalence of prescriptivism and pedantry: A mixed method study of descriptive and prescriptive attitudes’ predominance in two British newspapers
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2019;, Master thesis, 2019-05)This thesis is a quantitative and qualitative study of the prevalence of descriptive and prescriptive attitudes in the Guardian and the Telegraph articles about linguistics between 2000 and 2019. The main inspiration ... -
"The Future and the Past Merge to Meet Us Here": Black Feminism and Performative Biographism in Beyoncé's Visual Album Lemonade (2016)
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2019;, Master thesis, 2019-05-06)Beyoncé's visual album Lemonade has been faulted by radical feminist theorist bell hooks for its lack of intersectionality and for stereotypically victimising Black women. This thesis will counter this by arguing that ... -
Adapted education for pupils with higher learning potential in EFL classes at lower secondary school
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2019;, Master thesis, 2019-05-06)This study aims to investigate how the EFL education is adapted towards high achieving pupils with higher learning potential. Because adapted education is more often related to low achieving pupils, the researcher aims to ... -
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 ... -
“I caint make it be if it aint”: Insistent Materiality, Subjectivity, and Agency in Cormac McCarthy’s Suttree
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2019;, Master thesis, 2019-05)This thesis explores how subjectivity is negotiated in the interplay between ideology, material objects, use, and the spaces these objects construct, in Cormac McCarthy’s novel Suttree. McCarthy constructs a powerful and ... -
A Case Study of Teacher Cognition about EFL Writing Instruction and Writing Strategies in Norwegian First-Year Upper-Secondary Schools
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2019;, Master thesis, 2019-05)The present qualitative case study explores teacher cognition (beliefs, attitudes, knowledge and practices) in relation to writing instruction and the instruction of writing strategies in the English subject in first-year ... -
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 ... -
To almyghtty god et cetera An Edition of Medieval Testamentary Texts of Women from St Albans
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2019;, Master thesis, 2018-05-05)This thesis presents studies of seven testamentary texts of women from St Albans and an edition of the same texts. The studies deal with several aspects and factors related to linguistic variation, multilingualism and ... -
Learners' English Vocabulary Size in Upper Secondary School. A study of receptive and productive vocabulary size in Vg1 in Norway.
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2019;, Master thesis, 2019-05-06)The purpose of the project is to examine the pupils' vocabulary size. 100 students from an upper secondary school in Norway participated voluntarily in the study. In order to measure the receptive vocabulary size, the ... -
"All is Failure:" The Legacy of the Enlightenment and Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2019;, Master thesis, 2019-05-06)Since its publication in 1997, Thomas Pynchon’s Mason & Dixon has become a literary cornerstone within a continuing discussion about the 18th-Century and its influence on contemporary culture. Initially, this thesis will ... -
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 ... -
Visual Representations of Norwegian Language Learners in Norwegian Second Language Textbooks.
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2019;, Master thesis, 2019-05)This thesis presents a study of how Norwegian language learners are visually represented in three Norwegian second language (NSL) textbooks produced for adult learners of Norwegian language. Using social actor analysis and ... -
Teachers and Tasks: How Tasks are used in Upper-Secondary Vocational Classrooms
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2019;, Master thesis, 2019-05)This thesis has aimed to investigate what teachers believe about the use of tasks in the English subject in vocational classrooms and how the teachers’ beliefs relate to their actual practice. The research questions were ... -
A case study of Curriculum-Based Readers Theatre in a Norwegian Upper Secondary School EFL class
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2019;, Master thesis, 2019-05)This thesis is based on a case study of using Curriculum-Based Readers Theatre (CBRT), a group reading activity where pupils rehearse and perform content-based texts, in an upper secondary school English as a foreign ... -
"Hello [Streamer] PogChamp": The Language Variety on Twitch
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2019;, Master thesis, 2019-05-04)The present text is a research into the language usage in Computer-Mediated Communication, specifically on the online streaming platform Twitch.tv. The study will discuss Twitch’s language variety with a focus on Twitch ... -
Homework practices of English teachers at Norwegian lower secondary schools: a case study
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2019;, Master thesis, 2019-05)This thesis is about the homework practices of English teachers at lower secondary schools in Norway. The aim of the thesis was to learn about what attitudes, practices and considerations English teachers have when assigning ... -
"Leit, så skal de finna. Bank på, så skal det latast opp for dykk". Aktivisering av lesaren i Lene Asks grafiske romanar Hitler, Jesus og farfar og Kjære Rikard.
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2019;, Master thesis, 2019-05-16)Denne oppgåva tek utgangspunkt i dei to grafiske romanane Hitler, Jesus og farfar og Kjære Rikard, som begge er skrivne av Lene Ask. Målet med oppgåva er å seia noko om korleis og i kva grad Lene Ask opnar for lesaren si ... -
Lekkende kropper som tabu i tekst
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2019;, Master thesis, 2019-05)Denne avhandlingen er en diskursiv tekstanalyse av sykdomsnarrativene til Per Fugelli (1943-2017), Thea Steen (1989-2016) og Ingrid Anette Hoff Melkersen (f. 1982) i moderne medietekster som blogg, filmer og bøker, og ... -
Kitsch eller danning? En studie av pastorale trekk i NRKs dokumentarserie Der ingen skulle tru at nokon kunne bu
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2018;, Master thesis, 2019-05)Denne avhandlingen er en økokritisk lesing av tv-serien Der ingen skulle tru at nokon kunne bu. Serien, som har gått på norsk fjernsyn gjennom 16 sesonger i perioden 2002-2018, portretterer mennesker som lever på avsidesliggende ...
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