Browsing Student papers (HF-IKS) by Author "Thengs, Kjetil Vikhamar"
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Comics in Norwegian upper secondary EFL classrooms – Teacher’s attitudes to comics and how their textbooks present them.
Pladsen, Kamilla Brinch (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 ... -
Differentiation in Norwegian EFL teaching: experiences of adapted education in 6th and 7th grade classrooms.
Jacobsen, Ane Mydland (Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2016;, Master thesis, 2016-11-14)Norwegian legislation requires teachers to adapt the instruction to the needs and abilities of all their pupils. This thesis presents a study about differentiation in Norwegian EFL teaching, focusing on experiences of ... -
EFL Pragmatics Teaching in the Norwegian VG1 Programme for General Studies: Current Teacher Attitudes on the Development of Pupils’ Pragmatic Competence
Olsen, Kent Ivar Aasten (Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2018;, Master thesis, 2018-12)This thesis investigates pragmatics’ current position in the first year of the Norwegian EFL programme for upper secondary general studies classes. The aim was to ascertain whether pragmatics is explicitly or implicitly ... -
Factors that Predict Vocabulary and Self-assessment in English as a Foreign Language
Vold, Martine (Master thesis, 2018-05)The current study (N=196) researches how students learn English as a foreign language (EFL). It aims to find out which factors influence English learning, and which are more influential than others. The factors included ... -
Language and identity: a study of African American Vernacular English and its status in American society
Ueland, Ane (Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2020;, Master thesis, 2020-05)The present thesis aimed to explore the relationship between language and identity with a particular focus on the status of African American Vernacular English in the American society. The research questions that were ... -
Overall achievement- and exam grades in English - two of a kind? A study of assessment practices in Norwegian lower secondary school.
Hodne, Jane (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 ... -
Pupils' and teachers' reflections in the wake of the 2020, 2021 and 2022 cancellation of written exams: The benefits and drawbacks of written examination in the English subject at Norwegian upper secondary schools
Harestad, Henrik Hodne (Master thesis, 2022)This study concerns how cancelation of centralized exams in the English subject in 2020 and 2021 affected teachers and pupils at Norwegian upper secondary schools. The aim of the study is to describe and reflect on how the ... -
“whore and little nasty sluten pispott whore”. A study in the use of swearwords in English courtrooms from 1500-1913
Haualand, Bente (Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2020;, Master thesis, 2020-05)Swearwords are words in all its respective meaning; they convey meaning and are made of sounds found in the English language. However, more than any other group of words they have the power to hurt, offend, and are by some ...