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Fra toponymisk kolonisering til naturalisering og stedsnavnsdebatter
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2023-05-14)Denne kvalitative studien tar for seg fire personers syn på stedsnavn på sitt hjemsted. Hensikten er å få kunnskap om hvordan informantene ser på stedsnavn, noe som også inkluderer samiske stedsnavn. Den overordnede problemstillingen er hvilke syn på stedsnavn har fire personer som har Magerøya som sitt hjemsted? For å finne ut av dette har jeg intervjuet fire personer, og forsøkt å belyse følgende ... -
Multilingual experience modulates resting-state functional connectivity and executive functioning in cognitive aging
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2023-05-14)Bi-/multilingualism has been found to act favourably on the cognitive aging (CA) trajectory due to the increased executive functioning demands that dual-language use exerts on the brain leading to contributions to neurocognitive reserve and resilience. There is a gap in the literature on how individual differences in the degree of multilingualism influence this trajectory. Furthermore, other lifestyle ... -
Bi-multilingual Language Engagement Shapes the Brain’s Functional Connectivity: An Aging Study on Resting State Brain Rhythms Correlated to Executive Functions
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2023-05-12)Bi-multilingualism have been argued to help maintain cognitive functioning in aging through increased resilience to cognitive decline, known as cognitive reserves (CR). Researchers have argued that bi-multilingualism imposes unique cognitive demands that can change the brain’s structural and functional integrity. In order to investigate the effects of multilingual engagement on cognition, ... -
Crosslinguistic Influence in Third Language Acquisition: Acquisition of an artificial language by Persian-English bilinguals
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2023-05-12)Aims and objectives: This thesis investigates the role of the previously acquired languages, Persian and English, in the acquisition of morphosyntax of an artificial language (AL) at the very early stages of third language acquisition (L3A). The main objective of the study is to ask how lexical and syntactic similarities between the L3 and previously acquired languages affect crosslinguistic influence ... -
Multilektal skriving hos ungdommar på Vestlandet. Ein studie av dialektbruk på digitale, sosiale medium hos to grupper ungdommar på Vestlandet.
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2023-05-15)Denne mastergradsoppgåva har som føremål å undersøkje multilektal skriving, med hovudfokus på dialektbruk blant to ulike elevgrupper på Vestlandet. Problemstillinga for oppgåva er å undersøkje på kva for måte ser ein innslag av dialektskriving hos unge på Vestlandet? Dei to elevgruppene har ulik tilknyting til det nynorske skriftspråket, i form av at det nordlegaste utvalet er frå eit kjerneområdet ... -
Political Forms of Infinity in Contemporary Ecopoetry and Ecofiction: Why We Read in a Time of Crisis
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2023-05-12)Why read poetry and fiction when the world is burning, drowning, and quaking? This thesis seeks to provide an answer by arguing for the political efficacy of contemporary ecopoetry and ecofiction. Instead of viewing reading as an escape from ecopolitical struggles, I show the limited but productive role of literature in a time of crisis. Read together, Juliana Spahr’s book of poetry This Connection ... -
The survival of the eccentric in a hyperreal culture: Media consumption and the public sphere in George Orwell’s 1984 and Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2023-05-11)This thesis explores eccentricity, media consumption, totalitarianism, capitalism, and the public sphere through George Orwell’s 1984 and Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451. I present the concept of the eccentric to showcase how to strengthen the public sphere and resist both totalitarianism and mindless capitalist consumption. By exploring these topics, I seek to shed light on how the novels in question ... -
Lansering av en ny digital språk-ressurs for ukrainsk "Det ukrainske konstruktikonet" (The Ukrainian Constructicon)
(Conference object; Konferansebidrag, 2023-08-14)Det ukrainske konstruktikonet er en forskningsbasert pedagogisk ressurs som tilbyr beskrivelser av de mest frekvente og typiske ukrainske setningsmønstre og frasemønstre. -
Global Indigeneity on the Move. The World Drum - Afterlives, Drift Matter, and Object Agency
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023)In October 2006 a drum embarked on what is possibly the most extensive journey of any drum at any time. The journey’s ambitions were similarly grand: to serve as a wakeup call to the needs of Mother Earth by linking people, things, and places. What follows is my take on this project in the context of the reclaiming of drums in Sápmi and globalizing discourses on Indigenous religion(s), as well ... -
“I am Sámi, but I am not a Sámi”: Coastal Sámi students’ articulations of identity in a colonial-blind Norwegian state
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-01-05)This article gives voice to coastal Sámi students and explores their negotiations over being Sámi or Norwegian within the Norwegian education system. Through interviews, students share insights on the extent to which education focuses on Sámi issues and reflect upon their identity. The article explores how youths negotiate personal identity within pre-existing structures by employing Archer’s theory ... -
Medienkritik materialistisch: Das Propagandamodell von Herman und Chomsky
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Let us explain everything: pupils’ perspectives of the affordances of mobile technology during primary science inquiry
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-05-19)This three-year longitudinal case study focused on the deployment of mobile technology in the form of tablet computers (iPads), during Inquiry Based Science Education (IBSE). The research took place in a larger than average primary school in the West Midlands, UK, which showed a strong commitment to Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) resulting in iPads being used as an integral learning tool, across ... -
Developing intercultural competence and critical thinking skills through young adult fiction: How Margaret Balderson’s When Jays Fly to Barbmo has the potential to cultivate intercultural competence, enhance critical thinking abilities, and foster identification among adolescents
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2023-06-01)This thesis aims to answer how Margaret Balderson's When Jays Fly to Barbmo has the potential to cultivate intercultural competence, enhance critical thinking abilities, and foster identification among adolescents. The process of identification within literature plays a pivotal role in shaping one’s identity, which, in turn, holds significant importance in relation to intercultural competence. ... -
Emily Brontë's Confrontation with Power Structures in Wuthering Heights: Connections between Victorian Race, Class, and Gender
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2023-06-01)This thesis seeks to analyze how Emily Brontë portrayed the power structures of class, race, and gender in Wuthering Heights as interconnected and cyclical. It is important to see these power structures in connection, as they may cause further oppression together for the already oppressed. I argue that Brontë mocks the Victorian societal structures and their cyclical nature, and I show this through ... -
Teaching climate change with young adult fiction: Raising awareness with Alexandra Kleeman’s Something New Under the Sun
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2023-05-15)This thesis focuses on Alexandra Kleeman’s novel Something New Under the Sun (2021), a work of climate fiction, and explores ways to teach it. The thesis investigates how capitalism and privatization are drivers of climate change in light of the novel, and how the issue serves as ideas for integrating climate change into the English curriculum (ENG01-04). The thesis asserts that teachers of all ... -
The Paths of a Witcher: Moral Foundations, Narrative Distance and Choice in The Witcher 3
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2023-05-15)This thesis explores moral questions and storytelling in The Witcher 3. By utilising Moral Foundations Theory, Narrative Distance and research on videogames and audiovisual storytelling it seeks to explain differences in moral thinking. It argues that The Witcher 3, is uniquely suited to the exploration of moral questions due to its fantastical elements, portrayal of human nature and branching ... -
Dyslexia and Minecraft Education. A qualitative study exploring Minecraft Education as a tool for working with English literature for students with dyslexia
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2023-05-14)The following thesis aims to explore the experiences pupils with dyslexia have when using Minecraft Education to work with English literature. The study used a qualitative approach where 10 pupils with dyslexia had to complete different tasks in Minecraft education after reading a chapter from the novel The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. The participants’ experiences were captured using ... -
Facilitating Output and Interaction through Task-Based Language Teaching
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2023-05-14)There are innumerable methodologies linked with instructed LT, each of which are based on whatever theoretical SLA rationale a researcher or teacher should fancy at a given time. In line with recent trends regarding learner-focused instruction and emphasis on communication and interaction, there has been a shift away from traditional teaching approaches linked with a structural linguistic syllabus. ... -
The role of cross linguistic influence in the classroom Acquisition of English subject-verb agreement by Norwegian and Polish adolescents
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2023-05-14)This thesis aims to highlight how learners’ native language affects their acquisition of a second language. The study compares how L1 Norwegian and Polish learners acquire subject-verb agreement and discusses how cross-linguistic influence affects their results. Furthermore, the study isolates long-distance and local agreement conditions for each group to further discuss if structural distance affects ... -
Fear in Detective Stories: The representation of crime as threatening or nonthreatening in A Study in Scarlet and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2023-05-11)This thesis explores the representation of crime and fear in detective stories. I will particularly look at this in Arthur Conan Doyle’s A Study in Scarlet and Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Three main concepts will be used to analyze these texts: the detective novel as a genre, the presence of an unreliable police force, and the elements of a sensation novel. ...