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Austerity and Education : The impact of austerity measures implemented between 2010 and 2015 on the English education system and the subsequent influ…
2021
Master´s thesis in English (EN501) The thesis discusses whether the austerity measures implemented between 2010 and 2015 affected the education system and subsequently influenced inequality in England. The two research questions guide the examination of the thesis, where the first research question studies: How austerity measures have affected education in England, both in general and more specifically for disadvantaged children? Furthermore, the second research question investigates: How the distribution of austerity cuts influenced inequality in England? In order to structure the arguments, the thesis is divided into five chapters. Initially, the first two chapters form a background for t…
Beyond Gaming Video Games in the Classroom
2020
Master´s thesis in English (EN501) This thesis examines the effects of using a commercial video game in education. The thesis investigates earlier studies on video games and second language learning (L2), along with an analysis of the educational properties of video games. In addition, the thesis looks at how video games compare to the view of the competence aims and basic skills in the new English subject curriculum (ENG01-04) in Norway. Empirical evidence for the educational use of video games was collected after a two-week study of teaching with a video game in two Norwegian upper-secondary classes. Both qualitative and quantitative data from the study were used to answer two research qu…
Bilingual Visual Memory The effects of cognates and hesitations on memory for visual scenes in proficient Norwegian-English bilinguals
2020
Master´s thesis in English (EN501).
Word Neighbor Priming in Bilingual Sentence Reading: Evidence from Eye Movements
2018
Master's thesis English EN501 - University of Agder 2018 This study investigates English sentence reading processes in Norwegian-English bilinguals. It aims to explore the effects of word form overlap and its connection to second-language (L2) English proficiency. We recorded eye movements of Norwegian-English bilinguals while they read single sentences on screen. The experiment was a replication of Frisson, Koole, Hughes, Olson and Wheeldon, (2014), who investigated the effects of form similarity between words (orthographic and phonological, both separate and combined) on sentence reading in English monolinguals. They also investigated the effects of distance between prime and target words…
Role-playing in Norwegian EFL classrooms : The pedagogy behind Reacting to the Past meeting the “silent classroom”
2019
Master's thesis English EN501 - University of Agder 2019 This thesis is a study of the use of the pedagogy behind Reacting to the Past (RTTP) in Norwegian EFLclassrooms. Thethesisstatement is, “RTTP can transform Norwegian EFL classrooms from silence to engagement.”The researchexamineshow this method can help students develop oral competence, and how it creates a safe, interactive learning environment.The pedagogyis relatively new in Norway but has been around for abouttwentyyears in the United States, where in recent years it has been used throughout the country. RTTP iselaborate games, where students are assigned rolesfor a central historical point in time. In RTTP the studentsrun the cla…
The influence of English on Norwegian morphology: aspects of a contemporary development
2006
Masteroppgave i engelsk, Høkskolen i Agder, Kristiansand Three tentative hypotheses are suggested and tested in this thesis:1. That compounds, clips words and the genitive case are areas of Norwegian morphology which in fact are realms of uncertainty for users of the Norwegian language 2. That the uncertainty is not solely a result of English influence 3. That the uncertainty to some extent is due to insufficient knowledge of Norwegian orthography and morphology among Norwegians. With a view to investigating current attitudes within an academic setting to English influence on Norwegian morphology, a synchronic survey was carried out at Agder University College in Kristiansand. During the au…
A survey of the outside language pressure on modern faroese: with a view to assessing a possible increase in the use of English loanwords
2006
Masteroppgave i engelsk, Høgskolen i Agder, Kristiansand The focus of this work has been on the outside pressure on the Faroese language with an particular view to assessing a possible increase of new English Imports inot the language in view of the present-day technological and media situation. The theoretical part has been based on some of Milroy`s (2003) theories relevant for sociolinguistic research. A two-month research period provided interviews with 188 Informants. The Informants have been divided into four age groups: 1) young people aged 12 to 19, 2) working force, aged 24-50 with educational background in the home country, 3) working force, aged 24-50 with five years of university…
The emergence of christianity within the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Northumbria : an exploration into its earlist roots and an investigation in to the in…
2007
Masteroppgave i engelsk- Universitetet i Agder 2007 This thesis commences with a description of Pre-Roman and Roman Britain, to identify the people who lived in Northumbria and their background. The description then progresses with an explanation about the withdrawal of the Romans, and the state of affairs they left behind, giving also a reason for the arrival of the Anglo-Saxons. Once this is established, the scene which the Anglo-Saxons meet on their arrival is depicted, and their subsequent settlement recounted. The Anglo-Saxons were a warlike people, so their belligerent activities suppressing the Celts, and the campaigning between themselves and the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms for supremacy, …
Root canals : identity in Zadie Smith`s White teeth
2007
Masteroppgave i engelsk - Universitetet i Agder 2007
The river potential and the river chronotope : reading rivers in Mark Twain`s the adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Cormac McCharthy`s Suttree
2008
Masteroppgave i engelsk - Universitetet i Agder 2008