Current MA Students
Former MA Students
Andrea Dorothea Skintveit Holter , MA
Year
2020-2021
Thesis Title
How is bilingual’s memory for visual scenes effected by the use of cognates and disfluencies? : An eyetracking study
Thesis Link
https://uia.brage.unit.no/uia-xmlui/handle/11250/2787482
Bio
Andrea was enrolled in the lektor programme at UiA while collecting data in the lab as part of her master's project. In her thesis, Andrea wrote about memory and bilingual Norwegian-English processing.
Kamilla Kjøstvedt , MA
Year
2019-2020
Thesis Title
Investigating Teachers’ Use of L1 in L2 Teaching A survey of English teachers’ attitudes and perceived classroom practices in Norwegian lower secondary school
Thesis Link
https://uia.brage.unit.no/uia-xmlui/handle/11250/2681410
Bio
Kamilla specialised in English didactics. She was enrolled in the GLU (5-10) programme at UiA. For her MA thesis, she designed a survey study focusing on teachers' use of L1 in lower secondary English teaching. Additionally, she worked as a student assistant in the ESIT (Pupils' Language in Transit) research group at the department of Foreign Languages and Translation at UiA.
Natalia Ewa Gil Martinez , MA
Year
2020-2021
Thesis Title
Dyslexia in bilingualism : A case study of an English-Norwegian bilingual child with developmental dyslexia
Thesis Link
https://uia.brage.unit.no/uia-xmlui/handle/11250/2787320
Bio
Natalia is an inclusion teacher at the Arendal International School. Previously, she worked as an English for Academic Purposes Teacher in the UK. Her Master's project focused on developmental dyslexia in English and Norwegian.
Irene Slethei , MA
Year
2019-2020
Thesis Title
Bilingual Visual Memory The effects of cognates and hesitations on memory for visual scenes in proficient Norwegian-English bilinguals
Thesis Link
https://uia.brage.unit.no/uia-xmlui/handle/11250/2681349
Bio
Irene collected data in the lab as part of her Master's project. Her thesis included a study which investigated visual scene memory in Norwegian-English bilinguals.
Susanne Mollestad Avila , MA
Year
2018-2019
Thesis Title
Tip-of-the-tongue states among Norwegian-English bilinguals : Investigating the bilingual disadvantage in word finding and its relationship to the bilingual language profile
Thesis Link
https://uia.brage.unit.no/uia-xmlui/handle/11250/2617511
Bio
Susanne finished her thesis in the spring of 2019. She now works as a teacher at Oasen Birkelid in Sogndalen.
Lone Sunnset , MA
Year
2018-2019
Thesis Title
Tip-of-the-tongue states in Norwegian-English bilinguals : Investigating word-finding difficulties and its connection to bilingual profile
Thesis Link
Not Available
Bio
Lone finished her thesis in the Spring of 2019. She went on to work as an ELL research assistant where she helped with several projects.
Beatrice Zitong Urland , MA
Year
2017-2019
Thesis Title
Assessing bilingual language proficiency through self-ratings
Thesis Link
https://uia.brage.unit.no/uia-xmlui/handle/11250/2617528
Bio
Beatrice finished her Master’s thesis in the spring of 2019 where she examined the relationship between self-rated language proficiency and results from standardised measures.
Dag Magne Haugland , MA
Year
2017-2018
Thesis Title
Word Neighbor Priming in Bilingual Sentence Reading: Evidence from Eye Movements
Thesis Link
https://uia.brage.unit.no/uia-xmlui/handle/11250/2562944
Bio
Dag completed his MA thesis in the Spring of 2018. He is currently a teacher at Bleiker Videregående in Asker, teaching English and Norwegian in both ordinary Upper Secondary classes and in a preparatory course for minorities.