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1984 and A Clockwork Orange : a comparative study of how violence affects the main characters with special attention to age and life stage.
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2010;, Master thesis, 2010)This main aim of this thesis is to review how violence affects the main characters in 1984 and A Clockwork Orange; what kinds of violence affect Winston and Alex respectively, and what causes it. We shall first go into the ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
A study of group writing activities in a 10th grade English language class at a lower secondary school in Norway
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2016;, Master thesis, 2016-05)Abstract This thesis is about an experimental group writing project among 10th grade students of English in a lower secondary school in Norway. Writing is one of the basic skills in the LK06 curriculum and is important ... -
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 ... -
"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 ... -
"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 ... -
Humans in a Hostile Cosmos : Science, Cosmicism and Race in H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2016;, Master thesis, 2016-05)This thesis is a study of the “Cthulhu Mythos”, which is a fictional universe created and developed by American Weird Fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft. The study focuses primarily on Lovecraft’s philosophical idea of ... -
“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 ... -
An investigation of accuracy in the written English of upper secondary vocational school students
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2010;, Master thesis, 2010)This quantitative and qualitative study investigates the accuracy in students’ written English at the second level of upper secondary vocational education. The research is based on an analysis of 190 creative texts written ... -
Jane Eyre and Heathcliff – a comparative study of the antihero and the antiheroine
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2016;, Master thesis, 2016-05-11)This thesis has two major purposes: to examine the concept antihero and to discuss if the literary figures of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane in Jane Eyre (1847) and Emily Brontë’s Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights (1847), conform ... -
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 ... -
The literary vampire : from supernatural monster to the actual human?
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2010;, Master thesis, 2010)This thesis will be a study of whether there has been a significant shift with regards to how the mythical figure of the vampire is portrayed in literature. Starting with Bram Stoker's Dracula, via Interview with the Vampire ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Scribal variation in a legal document : a study of the bounding of barmston
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2010;, Master thesis, 2010)The present thesis is a study of a Middle English legal document defining the boundaries of Barmston in the East Riding of Yorkshire. The document was produced by four main scribes,; in addition, a fifth scribe may have ... -
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 ... -
The Songs that a Crow Would Sing
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2016;, Master thesis, 2016-05)This thesis will attempt to pursue a further understanding of what can only be described as the unsignifiable, unsayable, ineffable, or indescribable which can be seen to stand in opposition to language and understanding. ...