Teachers’ intercultural understanding has a growing importance in teacher education. In a society with more diverse classrooms, there is an increasing need for teachers with a broad intercultural understanding. Student teachers who have had school practice in different cultural settings have a broader understanding of their multicultural pupils and are better equipped for related challenges and ...

Research on multilingual lexical organization is coming to a consensus, led by a growing body of studies (e.g., De Groot, Delmaar & Lupker, 2000; Dijkstra, Grainger & Van Heuven, 1999; Kroll & Stewart, 1994; Van Heuven, Schriefers, Dijkstra & Hagoort, 2008), whereby the multilingual lexicon is seen as a unitary system and cross-linguistic competition occurs during lexical access. This increasing ...

The thesis sets out to explore the ways that mood is adapted from Highsmith’s novels The Talented Mr. Ripley (1955) and The Price of Salt (1952) to Anthony Minghella’s The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) and Todd Haynes’s Carol (2015), respectively. The aim is to show the diverging ways in which the novels and the films express the quintessential Highsmith story through mood, and to show how these diverging ...

This thesis presents a mixed-method based on two lesson plans that introduces reading strategies for students to experience mastery through reading English fictional literature. One class in middle school participated in the study, and they completed the lessons where they had the opportunity to read A Study in Scarlet through different text expressions. During the reading, the students were given ...

From microchips to smartphones to electric cars, humanity’s dreams of techno-salvation are built on the crude materiality of extracted metals and minerals. This extraction conveniently avoids large population centres in affluent Western democracies and instead clusters around the world’s social peripheries. This slam poem, first presented as a spoken performance at the 8th Winter School of the ...

Recent experiments have confirmed earlier informal evidence that finite adjuncts are not islands categorically. Specifically, it has been shown that adjuncts are not necessarily islands for all dependency types (Sprouse et al. 2016), and that the island status of an adjunct depends on the type of the adjunct clause in question (Kush et al. 2019; Müller 2019; Bondevik et al. 2021; Nyvad et al. ...

When international soft law framework and host states fail to ensure effective protection of human rights from business-related harm, the involvement of a home state can be considered as the best solution. The research aims to explore the role of a developed home state in protecting human rights from violations by extractive industries abroad. The major focus of the study is the example of the UK – ...

In an increasingly globalized world, digital gaming has emerged, and learning English as a second language has changed towards being a language easily accessible in students out-of-school contexts. This thesis investigates if there are significant interactions between the participants extramural English language activities and the results on the NNT in English, 8th grade. English is a global language ...

I denne kvalitative studien ser jeg nærmere på hvordan én fugl i elevens hånd kan bidra til å engasjere i naturfag. Utvalget består av en 10. klasse hvor jeg som forsker har analysert tre selvlagde undervisningsøkter i naturfag. Ved bruk av intervju og tematisk analyse av disse har jeg fått en forståelse av hva som engasjerer elever i naturfag og hvordan nærmiljøet og ringmerking av ville fugler kan ...