Research Students Current PhD Fellows Renate Gjetnes , MA Phd Research FellowDepartment of Foreign Languages and TranslationFaculty of Humanities and EducationUniversity of Agder Former PhD Fellows Bjørn Harald Handeland (2019-2024) Thesis: English as an Lx: Multilingualism, transfer and interactions with background profile Helene Berntsen (2019-2024) Thesis: Reading difficulties and bilingualism: Can decoding difficulties be identified in a second language? Mikael André Albrecht (2019-2023) Thesis: Bilingual Sentence Production Effects of Language Structure, Bilingual Profile, and Cognitive Load Malin Toften Mangersnes Thesis: Spoken word production in Norwegian-English bilinguals Investigating effects of bilingual profile and articulatory divergence Current MA Students Former MA Students Andrea Dorothea Skintveit Holter (2020-2021) Thesis: How is bilingual’s memory for visual scenes effected by the use of cognates and disfluencies?: An eyetracking study Natalia Ewa Gil Martinez (2020-2021) Thesis: Dyslexia in bilingualism: A case study of an English-Norwegian bilingual child with developmental dyslexia Irene Slethei (2019-2020) Thesis: Bilingual Visual Memory The effects of cognates and hesitations on memory for visual scenes in proficient Norwegian-English bilinguals Kamilla Kjøstvedt (2019-2020) Thesis: Investigating Teachers’ Use of L1 in L2 Teaching A survey of English teachers’ attitudes and perceived classroom practices in Norwegian lower secondary school Lone Sunnset (2018-2019) Thesis: Tip-of-the-tongue states in Norwegian-English bilinguals: Investigating word-finding difficulties and its connection to bilingual profile Mikael André Albrecht (2018-2019) Thesis: Planning Sentences in Second Language English: Effects of Language Similarity and Language Proficiency Susanne Mollestad Avila (2018-2019) Thesis: Tip-of-the-tongue states among Norwegian-English bilinguals: Investigating the bilingual disadvantage in word finding and its relationship to the bilingual language profile Beatrice Zitong Urland (2017-2019) Thesis: Assessing bilingual language proficiency through self-ratings Bjørn Harald Handeland (2017-2018) Thesis: Accent proficiency in second language English: relationships with general language proficiency and bilingual profile Dag Magne Haugland (2017-2018) Thesis: Word Neighbor Priming in Bilingual Sentence Reading: Evidence from Eye Movements