Enjoyment of Interactive Fiction Compared to Non-Interactive fiction, in a Norwegian EFL Classroom
This master’s thesis aims to shed light on using “interactive fiction” (IF) to promote reader engagement in a Norwegian EFL (English foreign language) classroom. In this thesis I look at interactive fiction in light of reading pleasure, enjoyment, and extensive reading. In this paper, I research whether a class of eighteen Norwegian 5th grade EFL students enjoy interactive fiction. The classroom intervention spanned three 60-minute English lessons, over three days. For this project they read both an interactive text and a non-interactive one. The students wrote reading journals where they wrote about their experiences with the two texts, before they answered a questionnaire on the final day…