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Design and construction of the Tracking Written Learner Language (TRAWL) Corpus: A longitudinal and multilingual young learner corpus
2023
This article describes the design and construction of the Tracking Written Learner Language (TRAWL) Corpus. The corpus combines several features that are all rare for learner corpora: it is longitudinal, following individual pupils over several years; it has data from young learners from school years 5 to 13 (ages 10–18); it is multilingual, containing learners’ texts in several L3s (French, German and Spanish), L2 English and L1 Norwegian; and it includes teacher comments on a number of the texts. In addition, some of the texts exist in both a first and a second revised version, all tied to a rich set of meta-data. Not only does such a corpus offer new possibilities for research on languag…
Språket som grense og nøkkel : Møter med migrasjonsromanen Og (2016) i Grunnskoleopplæring for voksne
2020
Teacher cognition and the status of grammar teaching in Norwegian secondary schools. A study of grammar teaching practices in the school subjects Nor…
2019
The paper III will be included in the dissertation after publication.
The effects of explicit phonetics teaching to reduce typical errors in the Norwegian English accent Looking into practices in today’s EFL classrooms,…
2022
Master´s thesis in Teacher Education, level 5-10 (EN-503) This present study investigated how the teaching of phonetics influence Norwegian learners of English’s pronunciation accuracy. It additionally looked at how learners evaluate their own pronunciation and presents some teachers’ perceptions and practices regarding phonetics and oral skills. The data collection consists of seven parts: a standard English proficiency test based on a previous English national test by the Norwegian Directorate for Education and Training, a survey investigating student perceptions on pronunciation, a pre-test testing pronunciation regarding four target phoneme sounds (/θ/, /ð/, /w/, and /v/), a teaching in…
«Nå har jeg tatt meg selv i nakken, og nå handler det om å holde hodet kaldt!»« En undersøkelse av videregående elevers forståelse av kroppslige idio…
2021
Master´s thesis in Advanced Teacher Education Background: Idioms can be considered as an interesting, but complex linguistic phenomena, which occurs frequently both in written and spoken language. Idioms can be found in a variety of different texts, such as papers, debates, speaks etc. Despite being frequent in the language, little attention has been paid to idioms in school and in the Norwegian subject in high school. Previous research shows that students have little knowledge of and lack basic understanding of idioms. Never the less, more focus should be paid to high school students’ knowledge of idioms. To gain knowledge of how high school students understand idioms, and what factors tha…
Gaming for language learning: Something to do in schools? What kinds of games and how they can be used in the English classroom to facilitate languag…
2020
Master´s thesis in English (EN502) Gaming can aid in language learning, and this thesis researches the current pedagogical beliefs and attitudes towards gaming based on survey and interview answers from English teachers in Norway .A mixed-methods approach was used in order to answer the four research questions. 120 participants took part in an online survey, and three participants took part in an interview. An expert on the subject, gaming pedagogue Halvor Østerman Thengs, participated in an interview to share information and experiences regarding gaming in schools. Afterward, the data from the online survey and interviews were presented, analyzed, and discussed. The conclusion is that many…
Two mechanisms or one? : a comparison of past tense acquisition in children with specific language inpairment and typically developing children
2013
Masteroppgave i engelsk- Universitetet i Agder, 2013
Can the language of mentally challenged individuals give us an insight into typical language development? : Evidence from Williams Syndrome
2017
Master's thesis English EN500 - University of Agder 2017
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).
Investigating Teachers’ Use of L1 in L2 Teaching A survey of English teachers’ attitudes and perceived classroom practices in Norwegian lower seconda…
2020
Master´s thesis in English (EN502)