This thesis investigates how chaos theory, as both scientific paradigm and literary metaphor, informs narrative structure, thematic development, and character formation in the works of Thomas Pynchon and Stephen King. Focusing primarily on The Crying of Lot 49 and “Entropy” by Pynchon and The Dark Tower series by King, the study traces the ways in which concepts such as entropy, strange attractors, ...

In this thesis I try to show that using poetry, especially E. E. Cummings’ poetry, to provide interdisciplinary value to classes on historical events, such as the World Wars, is productive. To support this claim I collected data from two groups of participants in lower secondary school. After two sessions, one for each World War, I distributed a questionnaire to gather their opinions on the sessions, ...

This thesis investigates the interplay between bilingualism, socioeconomic status (SES), and social language engagement, and their impact on neurocognitive adaptation and inhibitory control throughout life. By analyzing data from 169 adults in Northern Norway, it provides new insights into how these factors contribute to cognitive resilience and executive functions. The study's mixed-method approach, ...

The concepts of cognitive efficiency (CE) and expertise-dependent automaticity are central to the understanding of cognitive adaptations related to bilingual experiences. This study examined their behavioral manifestations in bilingual young adults by manipulating the cognitive load of a working memory task; the possibility to manipulate the difficulty of a cognitive task is necessary to observe ...

This thesis seeks to explore the potential of BookTok in upper-secondary school classrooms, and its connection to enhanced pleasure reading amongst adolescents. BookTok is a recent phenomenon and the term describes a reading subcommunity on the TikTok app, a social medium that has grown immensely in popularity amongst the younger generations for the past few years. Through analysis of the community ...

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is crucial to the National Library of Norway’s (NLN)digitisation process as it converts scanned documents into machinereadable text. However, for the Sámi documents in NLN’s collection, the OCR accuracy is insufficient. Given that OCR quality affects downstream processes, evaluating and improving OCR for text written in Sámi languages is necessary to make these ...

This chapter offers an overview of the representation of working-class life in the most-used teaching anthologies of the last sixty years, focusing especially on the British Romantic period. Falke reads the underrepresentation of working-class writing in this crucial period as a particularly egregious example of a pervasive trend: in the academy working people are spoken about more than listened to, ...

This chapter discusses essential issues in teaching elementary Russian as a Foreign Language (RFL) and analyzes the process of creating a digital curriculum along with ways to integrate it into the classroom. The chapter provides insight into recently emerged research-based methods of language analysis based on corpus research and builds corresponding teaching practices. It also looks into whether ...

This article examines the future challenges facing Norwegian public libraries in light of legislative changes and evolving societal needs. Since the Public Library Act of 1986, with updates in 2014, libraries are mandated to be accessible cultural and educational centers. The 2019 national library strategy further emphasizes their role in public enlightenment and community engagement, particularly ...

Images and discourses about peoples and places are crucial in tourism, and cultural heritages on display as part of contemporary tourism are often rooted in imaginaries formed long ago, under different contexts than today. This article explores the interconnection between tourism imaginaries and cultural heritage processes in the North, examining their links with regional development expectations ...