Blar i NTNU Open på forfatter "Torgersen, Eivind Nessa"
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A corpus-based analysis of the pragmatic marker you get me
Torgersen, Eivind Nessa; Gabrielatos, Costas; Hoffmann, Sebastian (Chapter, 2017)The chapter examines the use of the emerging pragmatic marker you get me (e.g. I'm just gonna give her a little backhand or whatever cos she needs to learn you get me?) in the 1.5 million word Multicultural London English ... -
A re-analysis of f0 in ethnic varieties of London English using REAPER
Szakay, Anita; Torgersen, Eivind Nessa (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Previous research has investigated voice quality in London English using acoustic measurements such as harmonic structure (H1-H2) and fundamental frequency (f0) in Praat [1], and found significant interactions with regard ... -
Embracing linguistic and cultural diversity in multilingual EAL classrooms: The impact of professional development on teacher beliefs and practice
Lorenz, Eliane; Krulatz, Anna; Torgersen, Eivind Nessa (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)This study investigated the impact of professional development on teacher beliefs and practices in linguistically heterogeneous EAL classrooms. Structured classroom observations and semi-structured interviews were used to ... -
Forging a Linguistically Diverse Future: Implications for EFL Teacher Education Programmes in Norway
Dahl, Anne; Krulatz, Anna; Torgersen, Eivind Nessa (Chapter, 2016) -
Language and Street Culture in the Big City
Torgersen, Eivind Nessa (Chapter, 2020)Discussions of street culture exist in a variety of academic disciplines, yet a handbook that brings together the diversity of scholarship on this subject has yet to be produced. The Routledge Handbook of Street Culture ... -
Language change and innovation in London: Multicultural London English
Fox, Sue; Torgersen, Eivind Nessa (Chapter, 2017)This chapter is about language change in London. Results from adolescent speakers in inner and outer locations of the capital were compared and it was found that while the outer London area, with a predominantly white ... -
London’s Cockney in the twentieth century: stability or cycles of contact-driven change?
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Pre-service Teachers' Beliefs Towards Oral Skills in the English as a Foreign Language Classroom
Iversen, Kristine Josefine (Master thesis, 2022)Den nye læreplanen, LK20, for elever i norsk grunnskole, introduserer et større fokus på muntlige ferdigheter i engelsk, med spesiell vekt på å kunne kommunisere med språket. Tidligere forskning viser at elevene snakker ... -
Prosodic rhythm, cultural background, and interaction in adolescent urban vernaculars in Paris: Case studies and comparisons
Fagyal, Zsuzsanna; Torgersen, Eivind Nessa (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)This paper presents the results of a corpus study of prosodic rhythm in the urban vernaculars of twenty-four female and male adolescents featured in the MPF corpus (Gardner-Chloros et al. 2011). Using canonical rhythm ... -
The Role of Pausing in L2 Oral Task Performance: Toward a Complete Construct of Functional Adequacy
Ekiert, Monika; Revesz, Andrea; Torgersen, Eivind Nessa; Moss, Emily (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Studies of L2 oral task performance report fluency as critical for functional adequacy, with pausing behaviors emerging as strong predictors of functionally adequate speech. The present study investigated the extent to ... -
The effects of task type and L2 proficiency on discourse appropriacy in oral task performance
Ekiert, Monika; Lampropoulou, Sofia; Revesz, Andrea; Torgersen, Eivind Nessa (Chapter, 2018)Conceived within the TBLT framework, the present study examined pedagogic tasks as vehicles for demonstrating L2 learners’ discourse appropriacy in oral production. Eighty ESL learners’ discourse appropriacy was measured ... -
The Role of English as a Foreign Language in Educating Refugees in Norway
Dahl, Anne; Krulatz, Anna; Torgersen, Eivind Nessa (Chapter, 2018)Like other Western European countries, Norway has seen a steady influx of refugees in the last two decades. As elsewhere in Europe, dominant ideologies of language and language learning affect refugees in complicated ways. ... -
Towards critical cultural and linguistic awareness in language classrooms in Norway: Developing intercultural citizenship through identity texts
Krulatz, Anna; Steen-Olsen, Tove Herborg; Torgersen, Eivind Nessa (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)This article reports the results of a school-based curriculum development project that aimed to support language teachers working with culturally and linguistically diverse student populations in Norway to develop teaching ... -
Tracing the origins of an urban youth vernacular: founder effects, frequency and culture in the emergence of Multicultural London English
Kerswill, Paul; Torgersen, Eivind Nessa (Chapter, 2020)This chapter traces the chronology of youth language in London from the arrival of the first post-Second World War migrants from Jamaica in 1948 to the early 2000s, by which time what is now known as Multicultural London ...