This thesis focuses on Alexandra Kleeman’s novel Something New Under the Sun (2021), a work of climate fiction, and explores ways to teach it. The thesis investigates how capitalism and privatization are drivers of climate change in light of the novel, and how the issue serves as ideas for integrating climate change into the English curriculum (ENG01-04). The thesis asserts that teachers of all ...

The following thesis aims to explore the experiences pupils with dyslexia have when using Minecraft Education to work with English literature. The study used a qualitative approach where 10 pupils with dyslexia had to complete different tasks in Minecraft education after reading a chapter from the novel The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. The participants’ experiences were captured using ...

This thesis aims to highlight how learners’ native language affects their acquisition of a second language. The study compares how L1 Norwegian and Polish learners acquire subject-verb agreement and discusses how cross-linguistic influence affects their results. Furthermore, the study isolates long-distance and local agreement conditions for each group to further discuss if structural distance affects ...

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 ...

This study investigates for the first time the comprehension of rhetorical questions (RhQs) in bilingual children. RhQs are non-canonical questions, as they are not used to request information, but to express the speaker’s belief that the answer is already obvious. This special pragmatic meaning often arises by means of specific prosodic and lexical-syntactic cues. Being childhood learners, ...

Introduction: This study examines adjective-noun order in code-switched constructions by heritage speakers of Spanish and Papiamento in the Netherlands. Given that Dutch differs from Spanish and Papiamento regarding the default position of the adjective, word order in the nominal domain creates a so-called “conflict site” in code-switching. Most accounts of word order patterns in code-switching focus ...

In this article, I offer a critical phenomenological investigation of immigrant indebtedness, with special focus on its temporality. I understand immigrant indebtedness as a relation of debt where what is owed is gratitude, and which takes on a special meaning when the debtor in question is racially construed as immigrant. Understood as such, immigrant indebtedness has the power to function as a ...

Turisme er en av verdens hurtigst voksende næringer og en betydelig drivkraft i lokale endringsprosesser. I Arktis har reiselivet vokst betraktelig de siste ti årene, og i takt med veksten, har også utfordringene blitt flere. Denne avhandlinga går inn i konflikter og paradokser i reiselivs-og stedsutviklinga i Ilulissat på vestkysten av Grønland, og i Lofoten nordvest i Norge. Dette er små lokalsamfunn ...

The memory of other nationalities and their wartime suffering on Norwegian soil are mainly part of a local narrative. While the subject of Soviet prisoners of war is common knowledge in local historical studies, both oral and written, there is virtually no space for a living memory about the Soviet POWs on a national level. Despite forming the largest group of casualties on Norwegian soil during the ...