This thesis investigates how and why English literature should be used in the upper-secondary classroom to increase awareness, knowledge and empathy in relation to mental health, for the purpose of decreasing the stigmatization of mental illness and mental health problems. This thesis conducts a literature analysis of the novel Normal People (Rooney, 2018) and the memoir Reasons to Stay Alive (Haig, ...

This thesis analyzes fanfiction and the community surrounding fan made media as a source of comfort for queer youth. A large majority of those who read and write fanfiction are queer and include their own relationships with queerness in their writing. The people writing fanfiction spend their own time and energy to share stories about their favorite characters for free, giving anyone access ...

Abstract Aims and objectives: The purpose of this thesis is to investigate factors influencing the acquisition of aspect, the internal temporal conceptualization of events in predicates, in second language acquisition. The main objective is to examine which and to what extent the following linguistic components influence the Feature Reassembly Hypothesis; the learners’ age thus their linguistic ...

I den siste læreplanrevisjonen i det norske læreplanverket som kom i 2020, har samiske tema og perspektiv fått en sentral plass. Gjennom opplæringa skal alle elever få innsikt i samenes historie, språk, kultur, samfunnsliv og rettigheter. Denne vektlegginga har også betydning for norskfaget, og i beskrivelsen av fagets relevans og sentrale verdier står det at faget “skal gi elevene innsikt i den ...

Gákti er en sentral rolle i samisk identitet og tilhørighet. Med røtter dypt forankret i samisk kultur og historie formidler gákti samisk stolthet og tradisjon gjennom generasjoner. I tillegg til sin betydning som klesplagg har gákti også funnet veien inn i samtidskunsten, hvor kunstnere som Gjert Rognli og Outi Pieski utforsker gákti sin rolle som et utrykk på identitet og kulturell arv. Tematisk ...

This research explores the motivations behind code-switching behavior, particularly focusing on its occurrence within the context of group discussions among English undergraduate students. Twenty participants, consisting of seven females and thirteen males, were observed during group discussions and subsequently interviewed individually to elucidate the reasons underlying their code-switching ...

A finales del siglo XIX y principios del siglo XX se vivieron momentos de grandes cambios en España. Cambios que se notaban en prácticamente todos los sectores de la sociedad. Para las mujeres estos cambios representaban en gran medida la posibilidad de poder participar activamente en los ambientes que hasta entonces habían sido reservados para los hombres. Las mujeres literatas tuvieron que luchar ...

The Sierra Leonean Civil War (1991-2002) left a population full of scars from the countless atrocities that were committed, while they continue to live in one of the poorest countries in the world. One author that dares to revisit this past, is Aminatta Forna, through a memoir, The Devil That Danced on the Water (2002), and a novel, The Memory of Love (2011). This thesis reflects upon the impact of ...

The thesis investigates pre-service teachers' preparedness for teaching in multilingual EFL classrooms. Former research has revealed that pre-service teachers lack the necessary competence in multilingual pedagogies when entering the profession. This results in teachers not knowing how to facilitate multilingualism in the classroom, which inhibits pupils' use of several languages when learning ...

This study investigated how motivational factors affect proficiency in early English as a foreign language (EFL)-learners in a classroom setting. 44 participants attending fourth and fifth grade in Norwegian primary schools were tested in proficiency and asked to answer a questionnaire detailing different motivational factors and method preferences in EFL-learning. The motivational statements in ...