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Hedging in Year Nine Girls’ and Boys' Written English in Norwegian Schools
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2016;, Master thesis, 2016-05)
This aim of this thesis is to investigate the use of hedging devices in the English writing of year nine girls and boys in two Norwegian lower secondary schools. Hyland (2005: 52) defines hedges as devices that “indicate ...
Skjønnlitteraturens nytteverdi - en studie av hva elever lærer av å lese skjønnlitteratur
(Master thesis, 2016-04)
Dette arbeidet er en teoretisk og empirisk studie av skjønnlitteraturens nytteverdi i videregående skole. Studien er ment å rettferdiggjøre skjønnlitteraturens plass i skolen, og forteller hva elever kan lære av å lese ...
Oral proficiency in Norwegian 7th grade EFL learners: effects of an All English teaching programme
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2016;, Master thesis, 2016-05)
This thesis presents a comparative case study on the effects of an All English teaching programme on the oral English proficiency of 12-13-year-old Norwegian learners of English as a foreign language. By ‘All English’, it ...
Chick or Lit: An Investigation of the Chick Lit Genre in Light of Traditional Standards of Literary Value
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2016;, Master thesis, 2016-05-11)
The present master’s thesis explores the chick lit genre in light of traditional standards of literary value. The thesis investigates how literary value and quality has been defined through the last couple of centuries, ...
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. ...
Mirror Madness: Investigating Patriarchal Ideology in Versions of "Snow White"
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2016;, Master thesis, 2016-05)
Fairy tales are an integral part of popular culture, as most people grow up listening to and reading these stories, while also watching adaptions of them in movies and TV series. This thesis seeks to analyze two versions ...
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 ...
A case study of Readers Theatre with minority background adult learners of English in Norway
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2016;, Master thesis, 2016-05-12)
This thesis is about the implementation of Readers Theatre (RT) in a minority background adult learners’ class of English at an adult education centre in Norway. RT is a group reading activity where the students rehearse ...
Visual Representations of Indigenous Cultures in English Foreign Language Textbooks
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2016;, Master thesis, 2016-05)
This thesis presents an analysis of how indigenous cultures are visually represented through images in four English Foreign Language (EFL) textbooks produced for Norwegian lower secondary schools. Building on the concept ...
Reading and writing workshops in the EFL classroom: A longitudinal study of the workshop-based method in a Norwegian 8th grade EFL class.
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2016;, Master thesis, 2016-05-12)
The current study is based on the implementation of a reading and writing workshop-based program in the English as a foreign language (EFL) lessons of a Norwegian 8th grade class of nine pupils. Seven of these pupils ...