Blar i Institutt for språk og litteratur på emneord "VDP::Humanities: 000::Linguistics: 010::English language: 020"
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A study of grammatical constraints on code-switching in Norwegian-English bilinguals
(Master thesis, 2014)This MA thesis looked into grammatical constraints of code-switching in English-Norwegian bilinguals. Three types of grammatical constraint were studied; the equivalence constraint, the free morpheme constraint and the ... -
"Alt er awesome i mitt liv" : social motivations for Norwegian-English code-switching
(Master thesis, 2014)This thesis examines which factors influence the use of English code-switching (CS) by Norwegians, and in the course of this examination, discusses what the social motivations are for such behaviour. The theoretical ... -
Do we have to speak English? : a longitudinal perspective on the impact of early English input on the development of English comprehension skills in Norwegian pupils
(Master thesis, 2014)This study is a continuation of previous research done on a group of Norwegian pupils. When this group started first grade they partook in a project by Dahl and Vulchanova (2014) which studied how input based teaching, ... -
English as a lingua franca in a Norwegian company : the case of Statoil
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"Fake it till you make it" : attitudes towards L2 accents among prospective English teachers in Norway
(Master thesis, 2014)This study investigates L2 accent attitudes among prospective English teachers in Norway. Greatly inspired by Jennifer Jenkins’ (2009a) predictions of a shift in non-native English language teaching “[…] away from its ... -
Grammar teaching in ESL classrooms : an analysis of R94 and LK06 textbooks
(Master thesis, 2014)Målet med oppgaven var å få et større inblikk i hvordan grammatikk vektlegges i lærebøker brukt i engelsk undervisning. Opggaven er en teoretisk analyse av lærebøker som er brukt i engelsk i første klasse på videregående ... -
Language choice in Ghanaian classrooms: linguistic realities and perceptions
(Master thesis, 2015)English and Ghanaian indigenous languages are employed at different levels of education as mediums of instruction and are taught as subjects in Ghanaian schools. This study explores this linguistic situation using data ... -
Metalinguistics and exposure as predictors of idiom comprehension in L2 users of Englsh
(Master thesis, 2016)A quantitative study was conducted with a group of twenty-six Nowegian upper secondary students and a group of twenty-six Norwegian university students. Both groups were tested for English proficiency and idiom comprehension. ... -
Norwegian students' comprehension of idioms in English
(Master thesis, 2014)A quantitative experimental study was conducted with two Norwegian high school classes with a total of forty-six 16 years old students as participants. The participants were divided into two groups identical to their ... -
Representations of linguistic variation in audiovisual translation : a study of American animated films and their Norwegian dubbed translations
(Master thesis, 2014)This thesis examines how dialects and accents are represented in Norwegian dubbed translations of American animated films for children, and how this can be explained from a sociolinguistic perspective. Twelve films released ... -
Searching for patterns in English as a second language : a Norwegian study of 10 and 15 year old learners
(Master thesis, 2014)The aim of this master thesis is to investigate the role of language transfer and metalinguistic awareness in Norwegian students' use and evaluation of grammar in their L2 English. The grammatical elements that are ... -
The Online Processing of Norwegian Intensional Verbs - An ERP Study
(Master thesis, 2018)The properties of language that allow us the freedom of stepping outside the world of facts into an almost infinite number of possible worlds, where things are how they could be, how they should be and how we hope and ... -
The perception and production of nonnative English consonants in native Norwegian speakers
(Master thesis, 2018)This study looked at the perception and production of the English unvoiced and voiced alveolar stops, alveolar fricatives, postalveolar fricatives and affricates. The voiced sounds in each of these pairs are nonnative to ... -
The purpose and function of code-switching in Nabokov's Pnin and three of its Russian translations
(Master thesis, 2014)Due to the world globalization and as follows, the spread of multilingualism all over the world, scholarly interest in code-switching in general and in written code-switching in particular has never been so acute. This ... -
Too cool for school? Sources of English language acquisition, attitudes, and academic reading ability among Norwegian university students
(Master thesis, 2015)Norwegians have some of the highest levels of English language proficiency in Europe (Bonnet, 2004), and are expected to read textbooks and articles in English at university. However, students may not be prepared for this, ...