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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...