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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"Enska"”.
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Enskukunnátta nemenda í 2. bekk
Enska er eitt útbeiddasta tungumál í heimi. Markmið þessara rannsóknar var að athuga enskukunnáttu nemenda í 2. bekk sem ekki hafa fengið neina formlega enskukennslu. Alls tóku 15 nemendur þátt í rannsókninni úr sama bekk og sama skóla. Notast var við sömu rannsóknaraðferð og í rannsókn frá árinu …
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"Atmen, du unsichtbares Gedicht" - Rilkes Behandlung in den "Sonetten an Orpheus".
… þar sem kafað verður í spænska, franska og enska sonnettuhefð. Enn fremur verða staðalform frönsku og ensku sonnettanna kynnt. Í síðasta undirkafla fyrri hluta verður vikið að þróun þýskumælandi sonnettunnar. Ásamt því að kynna ljóðskáld og þróun verður einnig hinu „fullkomna“ sonnettuformi …
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Lagaumhverfi íþrótta og umboðsmennsku í knattspyrnu. Reglugerð FIFA um umboðsmenn og tenging við Evrópurétt.
… skoðuð ýmis álitamál m.a. er varða reglugerð enska knattspyrnusambandsins um umboðsmenn. Litið verður til þess hver sé staða reglugerða FIFA um umboðsmenn; Regulation on working with Intermediaries (RWWI) og FIFA Football Agents Regulations (FFAR) reglugerðanna. Fjallað verður sérstaklega um …
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Eignaleiga : hvað felst í mismunandi formum eignaleigu á Íslandi og hvaða breytur hafa áhrif á val á fjármögnun?
… Hugtakið eignaleiga nær yfir fleiri afurðir en enska heitið leasing, sem einungis á nær yfir Fjármögnunarleigu og Rekstrarleigu. Birtingarmynd Fjármögnunarleigu og Rekstrarleigu er þó all nokkrar. Um reiknishaldslega meðferð eignaleigusamninga gilda alþjóðlegar reglur reiknisskilastaðla, nánar …
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Proto-Feminist Chaucer: The Rivalry Between the Wife of Bath and the Clerk
This essay explores whether Geoffrey Chaucer should be considered a proto-feminist, focused primarily on “The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale” and “The Clerk’s Prologue and Tale”. The Wife of Bath, as this essay states, can arguably be considered a feminist character, based on modern definitions …
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Culture is not your friend: Psychedelic literature of the 20th century and its subversive effect in an industrial world
In the middle of the twentieth century, Western writers, chemists, anthropologists and ethnobotanists introduced a hitherto oblivious Western culture to the peculiar effects of what is now called “psychedelic drugs.” Although many of these substances had been well known outside the Western world, …
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Elements of Enchanted Forests: On Writing Child of the Forest
Child of the Forest is a fantasy Novella that explores the parallel stories of 10-year-old Charlotte Aulden and how she came to leave the enchanted forest she once called home, and 20-year-old Charlotte Aulden returning to the forest where she was born to uncover the truth, and to lay it to rest. …
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Amy March: More than Jo’s Foil : Analysis of Little Women’s Amy March
For many years Amy March, from Louisa May Alcott’s novel Little Women, has been seen as the worst sister. While all the sisters face their struggles, Amy’s flaws are the most egregious and noticeable. She is vain, spoiled, and selfish and is often referred to as the foil to Jo, the protagonist. She …
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English Proficiency of Icelandic Adolescents: A Comparative Study of Vocabulary Use and Syntactic Complexity in L1 and L2 Speakers
As the English language spreads through academia and popular culture, Icelanders are acquiring English from a young age, raising the question of whether this has become more of a second than a foreign language. However, it remains unclear just how large a presence English has in their lives and how …
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"You're doing mother's work. Women suffer, don't they?" (A third-wave feminist reading of Pachinko, Half of a Yellow Sun and The Four Winds)
In this thesis, I use third-wave feminist thought to analyze three novels, Pachinko by Min Jin Lee, Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah. All three novels portray motherhood as the default role, or one of the very few available roles, that women can …
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Second Language Acquisition: The Effect of Age and Motivation
This paper looks into the competence of second language acquisition by investigating how second language is acquired. Furthermore it explores the age factor in learning another language other than mother tongue and also attempts to answer if there is enough current evidence that can demonstrate …
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Dracula: Infection, Disease and Illness
This essay examines Bram Stoker’s Dracula and how the author carefully constructed the main antagonist, Count Dracula, one of literature’s most monstrous and notorious villain, to reflect late-nineteenth-century anxiety and fear of contagion, disease, and illness. It explores how the Count and …
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Language use in the immigration experience : A study on foreign immigrants’ language use in Iceland and how it impacts their experience
Iceland has witnessed a surge in immigration since the end of the 1990’s, especially after the opening of the EU internal borders and the expansion of the EEA. Iceland is now a place of language heterogeneity, with an increasing number of foreign immigrants with various native languages and a heavy …
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The authenticity of reading materials provided for students in secondary school classrooms in Iceland
English is prevalent in Icelandic society and students need to have adequate language skills to enter the university or professional work environment. Reading plays an important role in learning a language. Therefore, authentic reading materials in an ESL classroom could improve the language …
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Vampires in Literature
Monsters are a big part of the horror genre whose main purpose is to invoke fear in its reader. Horror gives the reader the chance to escape from his everyday life, into the world of excitement and fantasy, and experience the relief which follows when the horror has ended. Vampires belong to the …
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Building a Secret House of Words. On Writing Come with Me: The Coyote Has Been Howling All Night
This assignment has its source in a lifetime desire to write fiction. It consists of a novella, Come with Me: The Coyote Has Been Howling All Night (approx. 43,500 words) and an exposition on the writing process (approx. 11500 words). Come with Me: The Coyote Has Been Howling All Night is the story …
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Can Language Affect Thought? An Overview of the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis and Examination of the Grammatical Gender in Regard to the Theory
The ever so contentious subject on the idea of whether or not the language we speak could have a distinct effect on the way we perceive the world around us is an interesting field for any linguist to examine and research. The idea most often referred to as the Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis or …
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Adelaide English: Regional Variation in Australian English Phonology
This thesis seeks to determine the major characteristics in phonology of the Adelaide English when measured against some of the other regional varieties of the Australian English language. Furthermore, the settlement history of South Australia is examined and an integral link between the settlement …
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Exploring the Unfamiliar: On Writing Eyes of Darkness
This project pertains to the field of creative writing, and is comprised of two sections. The first section is a novella, Eyes of Darkness, (approx. 17,000 words). The second section is an exposition (approx. 3,400 words) detailing the writing process from the story’s conception all the way to its …
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The Value of Translanguaging Within Multilingual Learning Environments: The Icelandic Perspective. The Advantage of Bilingualism and Translanguaging Within the Icelandic School System
This thesis explores the potential of translanguaging as a pedagogical approach in Iceland's increasingly diverse educational environment. With over 100 languages now spoken in primary school classrooms nationwide, the need for adapted teaching strategies that effectively support multilingual …
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