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A study of EFL reading instruction at the upper secondary level in Norway
(Master thesis, 2018-05-10)This qualitative study has investigated the teaching and learning of reading in English in five Norwegian upper secondary schools. More precisely, the study has focused on teachers’ and pupils’ experiences of reading ... -
A study of the types, frequency and perceived benefits of extramural activities on Norwegian 10th graders’ development of English as a foreign language.
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2018;, Master thesis, 2018-05-10)This thesis is about extramural English activities among 10th graders in Norwegian lower secondary schools. The aim of the thesis was to map the 10th graders’ use and influence of extramural English activities, the types ... -
Audiovisual Translation of Puns and Cultural References in the First Season of the TV Series ‘How I Met Your Mother’
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2020;, Master thesis, 2020-05-11)This master thesis investigates a topic from the field of audiovisual translation. The research is focused on the subtitling of puns and cultural references in the American TV series ‘How I Met Your Mother’. It aims to ... -
A Comparative Study of English as Second Language in Nepal and Norway (Using Curriculum of Secondary School)
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2020;, Master thesis, 2020-05)This research aims to compares the English subject curriculum for primary and secondary school level in Nepal and Norway focusing on oral competence. Curriculum theory, as well as second language learning theory, support ... -
A comparative study of Norwegian and Russian EFL teachers’ approaches to teaching English literacy at upper secondary school.
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2020;, Master thesis, 2020-05-11)Abstract This study explores the ways Russian and Norwegian upper secondary EFL teachers approach teaching English language literacy. The main aim of the thesis is to investigate differences and similarities between ... -
Factors that Predict Vocabulary and Self-assessment in English as a Foreign Language
(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 ... -
Interjections and interjectional phrases as a characterisation tool in Hamlet, Twelfth Night and Othello
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2020;, Master thesis, 2020-05-11)Abstract Having mostly escaped scholarly scrutiny, interjections have in recent years received more attention and are currently being fronted and championed in linguistic research. However, there does not seem to be ... -
Language and identity: a study of African American Vernacular English and its status in American society
(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 ... -
Language anxiety in oral activities in Norwegian lower secondary EFL classroom: Teachers’ and their students’ beliefs, practices and experiences
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2020;, Master thesis, 2020-05-11)This thesis addressed the issue of language anxiety in oral activities in Norwegian EFL classrooms. In particular, lower secondary EFL teachers’ and their students’ beliefs, practices and experiences were explored through ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Take three spoonfuls of the juice of hkmklkk: an edition of fifteenth-century medical texts in Sloane 3160.
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2020;, Master thesis, 2020-05-11)This thesis is an edition of medical texts in London, British Library Sloane 3160, f. 151r-v and ff. 166r-170v, copied by a single scribe here referred to as Scribe M. The manuscript has been dated to the second half of ... -
Talemålsendringer i Stavanger i dag – En sosiolingvistisk undersøkelse av yngre talere av stavangersk
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2020;, Master thesis, 2020)Denne masteroppgaven er en sosiolingvistisk studie av ungdommers talemål i Stavanger. Arbeidet baserer seg i stor grad på hovedfagsoppgavene til Finn Gabrielsen (1983) og Kristine Nymark Aasen (2011) om talemålsendringer ... -
The Use of Visual Representation in English Foreign Language Textbooks Produced in Norway
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2020;, Master thesis, 2020-05)This thesis is an investigation into the use of images in a selection of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) textbooks used in upper secondary school in Norway. The aim of the study was to explore the role and function of ... -
“whore and little nasty sluten pispott whore”. A study in the use of swearwords in English courtrooms from 1500-1913
(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 ... -
Writing for Pleasure and the Teaching of Writing at the Primary Level: A Teacher Cognition Case Study
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2020;, Master thesis, 2020-05)This research project is a collective case study exploring teacher cognition in relation to the teaching of first language (L1) writing at the primary level in England. The study places particular emphasis on writing for ...