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Climate Change Literature in the English Subject Classroom : Discussing how English teachers can use Young Adult Climate Fiction to teach about susta…
2020
Master´s thesis in English (EN501) This thesis explores the Young Adult DystopiaThe Sandcastle Empireby Kayla Olson and the Young Adult Climate FictionsThe Final Six and The Life Belowby Alexandra Monir and their different depictions of a future world affected by climate change. Intending to figure out how an English teacher in a Norwegian classroom may use these novels, the thesis discusses the criticism of capitalism, scientific innovation, and parental responsibilities given to the teenage protagonists. The thesis does this through an ecocritical lens and focuses on the characteristics of Anthropocene and Climate Fiction. Simultaneously, the thesis examines how the novels may affect the …
Is the Brazilian Portuguese phrase estar indo, i.e. be going [to], being grammaticalized into an auxiliary, and if that is the case, is it a borrowin…
2018
Master's thesis English EN501 - University of Agder 2018 The aim of this thesis is to compare the grammaticalization of English be going to and Brazilian Portuguese estar indo (i.e. the equivalent to English be going to) in order to investigate whether the phrase is grammaticalizing in Brazilian Portuguese, and furthermore, to discuss whether the grammaticalization is influenced by English. To discuss these issues, the thesis consults research and corpora that illustrate the use and grammaticalization of the phrase in the two languages. Data from the BYU corpora and Twitter1 show that Brazilian Portuguese estar indo is used in situations where it appears to be a (purposive) future auxiliary…
“You Know, It’s Like Everywhere. Nothing’s Doing what it’s Supposed to Anymore” : A Corpus-based Study on Sociolinguistic Distribution of the Discour…
2019
Master's thesis English EN501 - University of Agder 2019 Discourse markers are sometimes socially stigmatized by people, and researchers conducting corpus-based studies report contradictory results about sociolinguistic distribution of such items. This study focuses on the two discourse markers likeand you knowand comparisons of distribution of these discourse markers among men and women, and among people of higher and lower education have been conducted. The study uses American speakers aged 20-59 to answer the two following questions: (1) can social differences regarding frequency of employing DMs be detected? and (2) do different social classes use discourse markers for different purpose…
Borders in Northern Ireland : Exploring borders related to Northern Ireland in two textbooks written for Social Studies English through the lenses of…
2019
Master's thesis English EN501 - University of Agder 2019 In a referendum in 2016, the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union. This event sparked a major debate concerning national identity and national borders, as the British society was divided in half, with almost 52% voting to leave, while the other48% wishedto remain in the EU. As Brexit moved forward, one element in the various withdrawal-agreements stood out as a main issue, namely the Irish border. The border between the Irish Republic and Northern Ireland was now to be given a new characteristic, also functioning as the border between the EU and the UK. One of the main challenges was to find a solution that would benefit a…
Planning Sentences in Second Language English : Effects of Language Similarity and Language Proficiency
2019
Master's thesis English EN501 - University of Agder 2019 This experiment examines the effects of syntactic structure, interlingual word similarity, and semantic relationships on second-language English sentence production and planning scope. Syntactic structure was manipulated by the two target lexical nouns either occurring together in the same phrase (i.e. the initial phrase of the utterance) or in different phrases. A second goal of the experiment was to examine how bilingual language profile, defined as vocabulary-size paired with self-reported proficiency and exposure measures, affects sentence production and planning scope. Twenty-nine Norwegian-English bilinguals performed a sentence…
Tip-of-the-tongue states among Norwegian-English bilinguals : Investigating the bilingual disadvantage in word finding and its relationship to the bi…
2019
Master's thesis English EN501 - University of Agder 2019 The objective of this study was to investigatehow the bilingual disadvantage of word finding relates to the bilingual language profile. In two experiments 30 Norwegian-English bilinguals were presented with definitions of four different types of low frequent target words, to try to induce tip-of-the-tongue states: common noun cognates, common noun non-cognates, proper noun cognates, and proper noun non-cognates. If the participants experienced the feeling of knowing the target word, but had trouble finding it, they reported being in a tip-of-the-tongue state(TOT). One experiment was in English, the other in Norwegian. The participants…
Reacting to the Past in an EFL-classroom : How does RTTP promote oral communication and development of critical thinking in a Norwegian EFL-classroom?
2019
Master's thesis English EN501 - University of Agder 2019 This thesis investigates how RTTP(Reacting to the Past)promotes the development of oral communication and critical thinking in an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) -classroom.RTTP is an activerole-play methodwhich is widely used in the USA.To gather datafor this studyI collaborated with another MAstudent writing about RTTP. We conducteda RTTP game, “the Struggle for Civil Rights”inthree classes atlower and upper secondary school. I have used both qualitative and quantitative methodsto investigate statistical and empirical data in combination withthehuman perspective. The students answered surveys, and the teachers were interviewed.I…
Acquiring English Vocabulary Through Virtual Worlds : Exploring the connection between Norwegian EFL lower secondary pupils’ gaming habits, essay gra…
2019
The purpose of this study is to investigatethe connection between Norwegian lower secondary pupils’ gaming habits,their essay grades and their written lexical richness in English, as well as to offer gamers’ attitudes towards gaming and language learning. A mixed method approach was applied in order to address three research questions focusing on the participants’ lexical richness, their grades and their attitudes toward learning through gaming. Data were collected from 14 Norwegianlower secondary pupils, with a total of 20 (6 from year 8, 14 from year 9) essays. Six of the participantstook part of the study both in year 8 and 9. Three methods were used to answer the research questions. Fir…
Written Corrective Feedback and the Development of L2 Learner Language : A longitudinal study of lower secondary EFL writing in Norway
2020
Master´s thesis in English (EN501) Aiming to explore teacher written corrective feedback and learner errors qualitatively and longitudinally, the present study investigates two teachers’ WCF to errors in the written production of three lower secondary EFL students in Norway over the course of three school years. The study is divided in four parts: an error analysis of the students’ writing once every six months, a feedback analysis of the teachers’ WCF to errors in the same samples of writing, a tracking of possible improvement in selected types of errorsin subsequent writing (for error categories corrected by the teacher and revised by the student), and a semi-structured interview to inclu…
Race and Power in the American Education System : Demonstrating the relevance of race and the ramifications of white privilege in the American educat…
2019
Master's thesis English EN501 - University of Agder 2019