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dc.contributor.advisorRodina, Yulia
dc.contributor.advisorOlsen, Christopher Loe
dc.contributor.authorLamvik, Martin
dc.date.accessioned2021-05-14T08:40:17Z
dc.date.available2021-05-14T08:40:17Z
dc.date.issued2020-11-03
dc.description.abstractThis thesis explores the possible significant interactions between lower secondary school pupils’ English proficiency and the extent and characteristics of English language exposure from their media habits and out-of-school activities. The English language has manifested itself in the Norwegian society, and teenagers are exposed to considerable amounts of English in their everyday lives. A quantitative approach was used in this study. Data was gathered from three classes of different year levels in Norwegian lower secondary schools. The participants answered a survey consisting three parts. The first part was about the participants’ background, the second part was to measure the extent and characteristics of their media habits and out-of-school activities, and the third part was an Oxford Proficiency Test, to measure their English language proficiency. Fours tests were conducted in this study: the Shaprio-Wilk test to examine normality, correlation coefficients Pearson’s r (PCC) and Spearman’s rho (SCC), and a t-test to compare two groups. Significant interactions were found for English out-of-school activities that requires the pupils to use their language, specifically for reading English books, playing video games. Another significant interaction found was found for both the extent and for characteristics concerning watching English movies and TV-series. Correlation tests suggest frequent use of this out-of-school activity to induce English proficiency. Inspecting this further, subtitle preferences was declared as a cause of importance.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/21179
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherUiT Norges arktiske universiteten_US
dc.publisherUiT The Arctic University of Norwayen_US
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2020 The Author(s)
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0en_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)en_US
dc.subject.courseIDENG-3982
dc.subjectsecond language aquisition learning media english L2 SLA L1 norwegian student gaming tv play video games movies subtitles reading books extramural activities out-of-school secondary school students student pupil pupilsen_US
dc.subjectVDP::Social science: 200::Education: 280en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Samfunnsvitenskap: 200::Pedagogiske fag: 280en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Humanities: 000::Linguistics: 010::English language: 020en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Humaniora: 000::Språkvitenskapelige fag: 010::Engelsk språk: 020en_US
dc.titleThe Effect of Media Habits on L2 English Proficiency: A study of L1 Norwegian lower secondary pupilsen_US
dc.typeMaster thesisen_US
dc.typeMastergradsoppgaveen_US


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