This master´s thesis is the result of a mixed-method study on the implementation of visual literacy and its effects on pupils´ attitude to images and their production of multimodal texts. While simultaneously, it reviewed how teachers can assess multimodal texts where the focus is on the visuals. The research question for this masters´ thesis is as followed: To what extent can working with visual ...

Denne oppgaven tar for seg Vladimir Vladimirovitsj Putins historiepolitikk og tvetydigheten i den. Spørsmålet jeg har prøvd å svare på i denne oppgaven er hva Kreml-ledelsens syn er på Den russiske revolusjonen og sovjetperioden, og om dette synet er logisk. Oppgaven fokuserer på hvordan Putin bruker historiepolitikken til å bygge og fremheve den russiske stormaktkontinuiteten for dermed å legitimere ...

Denne mastergradsavhandlingen tar for seg Guy Delisles grafiske reiseskildring Pyongyang - En tegnet og meget begrenset reise i Nord-Korea (2008).Lesningen tar utgangspunkt i og utfordrer førstepersonsfortelleren Delisles perspektiv i skildringen. Hvordan viser han sitt perspektiv? Hva forteller det oss? Og i hvor stor grad kan vi stole på det? Jeg forsøker dermed å undersøke hvordan Delisle formidler ...

This study aims to explore Norwegian EFL- teachers’ attitudes towards drama-based activities as a method in teaching English as a foreign language. It also investigates the teachers’ thoughts and experiences on drama-based activities in TEFL. The following research question was thus formed: “How do upper primary level and lower secondary level teachers experience drama as a teaching method in ...

Designed to serve as a textbook for courses in statistical analysis in linguistics, this book orients the reader to various quantitative methods and explains their implications for the field. The methods include chi-square, Fisher test, binomial test, ANOVA, correlation, regression, and cluster analysis. The advantages and limitations of each method are detailed and each method is illustrated with ...

Louise Boyd (1887–1972) was a female pioneer in Arctic research whose legacy includes the exploration of north-east Greenland. In this Perspective piece, we use a broad interdisciplinary approach to investigate her career as a photographer and expedition leader. When documenting glacial retreat during the 1930s, she was at the forefront of the development of glaciology as a research discipline. ...

Taking Indigenous worlds seriously raises questions not only about the institutions and bureaucratization of settler colonialism as a never ending project; but also brings settler bodies, knowledges, and ontologies under questioning as they are the dominating worldings – to which they enact one-worlding. White settler bodies do not make up its whole, but are inseparable to its dynamic, fractured, ...

Master’s thesis is concerned with the political representation and ethnic mobilization of the Komi people, the indigenous population of the Komi Republic. The aim of the thesis is to investigate to what extent the Komi people influenced the policy of the Komi Republic in the period 1991-1999. The analysis is based on the conflicts and negotiations between the Komi people and the Komi Republican ...

How do Argentina’s found grandchildren experience knowing the truth about their biological origins, and how does this influence their identity? Their identification, restitution and reconstruction of identity has been and will continue to be closely linked to Argentina’s transitional justice process. We need more knowledge about how victims of political violence experience transitional justice ...

This article explores playfulness and creativity in translingual family interactions. In particular, it focuses on how and to what ends adolescents mobilize multilingual resources in family interactions. It investigates the cases of two multilingual families with adolescent children (13–18 years old). The families have different linguistic backgrounds, but have in common that one of the parents have ...