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Editorial: Perspectives on Nordic phonology
(Others, 2021)In this editorial, we first offer a glimpse of the scope and traditions of studying phonology in the Nordic countries and how these are mirrored in the aims of FiNo and the topics presented at its 2020 workshop. We then ... -
Utsyn frå utkanten: Vinje, Hamsun og det anglo-amerikanske
(Chapter, 2021)I 1863 gjev Aasmund Olavsson Vinje ut boka A Norseman’s Views of Britain and the British, basert på eit års opphald i landet – fyrst to-tre månader i England og resten i Skottland. Ti år seinare, dvs. tre år etter at Vinje ... -
Contrastive Feature Typologies of Arabic Consonant Reflexes
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Attempts to classify spoken Arabic dialects based on distinct reflexes of consonant phonemes are known to employ a mixture of parameters, which often conflate linguistic and non-linguistic facts. This article advances an ... -
En bluespreken Om Son House og «Preachin’ the Blues»
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Eddie “Son” House Junior (1902-1988) was a blues musician from Mississippi, especially known for his recordings from 1930, among which we find “Preachin’ the Blues”, one of his greatest achievements. It deals with the ... -
Students' perceptions and use of a new digital tool in teacher education
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)This article investigates how student teachers of English at two different teacher education institutions perceive and use a new digital tool, OneNote Class Notebook. The intervention study explores student responses to ... -
Teacher Educators’ Conceptions of Language Assessment Literacy in Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)In order to gain a deeper understanding of what language assessment literacy (LAL) is and how it can be developed, it is relevant to investigate it from the point of view of different stakeholders (Harding & Kremmel, 2016). ... -
Picture perfect: ELT textbook images and communicative competence development
(Journal article, 2021)Images are an important resource in English language teaching (ELT) textbooks. Still, knowledge of how textbook images may support the development of the learner’s communicative competence is still scarce. This paper ... -
Snø og samfunnskritikk - snømotivet i Alexander Kiellands "Sne" (1886) og Jonas Lies "Familjen paa Gilje" (1883)
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Snow is the principle source of imagery both in Alexander Kielland’s Snow and in Jonas Lie’s Familjen paa Gilje, although it has different tasks to fulfill. Whereas Kielland’s narrator depicts snow as a homogenizing material ... -
A wild animal inside my house: An analysis of the children´s picture book Sven the Otter and the Magic Rock by Espen Villseth and Anita Sletten
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Svenn, a wild otter, has become an Instagram celebrity with over 140,000 followers around the world. Svenn has his own YouTube channel and Facebook page. Moreover, in December 2020, NRK, an influential Norwegian TV channel, ... -
D.H. Lawrence between the Relative and the Absolute: From Religion and Science to Art and Life
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)The paper will first of all attempt to examine Lawrence’s relationship with the relative and the absolute in the context of the intellectual climate around the turn of the century. The focus here will be primarily on the ... -
The comprehending teacher: scaffolding in content and language integrated learning (CLIL)
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Teaching through a second language (L2) poses many challenges, as second language learners (SLLs) have fewer linguistic resources in the language of instruction. Scaffolding students’ learning is a possible way of overcoming ... -
Doctorateness across Higher Education Institutions in Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)This article investigates doctorateness in Norway by evaluating the juridical regulations for doctoral studies at all PhD-awarding universities and university colleges according to the following categories: admission, ... -
"Et språk som alle andre". Om norsk romani i samfunn og utdanning
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Norsk romani og andre nasjonale minoritetsspråk representerer en historisk norsk flerspråklighet, en form for flerspråklighet som er mindre synlig i norsk offentlighet og i norske lærerutdanninger enn annen simultan bruk ... -
How teachers use prosody to guide students towards an adequate answer
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)This paper focuses on the role prosodic features play in displaying evaluative stance in desk talks and oral exams in Norwegian secondary schools. We explore the extent to which teachers make available, to students, their ... -
Optimism and alienation – colour schemes and soundscapes as means for the social construction of risk in climate education videos
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)While the field of climate change communication has become increasingly interested in visual representations, there has been a lack of research that attempts to capture the breadth and variety of semiotic resources being ... -
Videolekser som ressurs for lesing og undervisning i lærerutdanning – En studie av hvordan samarbeid og partnerskap kan utvikles rundt lærerstudenters videoinnspilte leserefleksjoner
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Denne artikkelen rapporterer fra et pågående designeksperiment der et konsept kalt «videolekser» ble introdusert for å få innsikt i lærerstudenters lese- og læringsprosess. Konseptet ble laget i samarbeid mellom underviserne ... -
The Potential for Aesthetic Experience in a Literary App: An analysis of The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)This analysis of the literary app The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore is theoretically grounded in Wolfgang Iser’s theories of aesthetic response and multimodal social semiotics. The first part of the analysis ... -
Who am I? How Newly Arrived Immigrant Students Construct Themselves Through Multimodal Texts
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)This article presents a study of how teenage immigrant students, newly arrived in Norway, constructed themselves discursively through a number of identity texts. Drawing on theories from New Literacy Studies, Critical ... -
Language contact across the lifespan
(Chapter, 2019)The outcome of a multilingual encounter depends on a number of factors. Contact may be of various kinds and may differ in duration, and speakers may belong to different sociocultural groups depending on such variables as ... -
The Transgressive Narratives of Hamsun's In Wonderland
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Artikkelen fokuserer på de grenseoverskridende særtrekkene ved Hamsuns I Æventyrland, dvs. på bokens varierte bruk av litterære sjangre og narrative teknikker, og på fortellerens like grenseoverskridende fremstilling av ...
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