Syllabus/achievement requirements

Book

 

Sundqvist, P., & Sylvén, L. K. (2016). Extramural English in teaching and learning: From theory and research to practice. London: Palgrave Macmillan. [300 pages]
 

NB! This book will be made available as ebook through the university library, and a link will be posted to the course on Canvas.

 

Texts in compendium

 

Linn, A. (2016). The Nordic Experience. In Linn, A. (Ed.) Investigating English in Europe: Contexts and agendas (pp. 201-256). Boston/Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. [56 pages]

 

Linn, A. (2016). The way ahead. In Linn, A. (Ed.) Investigating English in Europe: Contexts and agendas (pp. 259-263). Boston/Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. |5 pages]

 

Rindal, U. (2016). Pronunciation. In Linn, A. (Ed.) Investigating English in Europe: Contexts and agendas (pp.93-98). Boston/Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. [6 pages]

 

 

Texts available online

 

Brevik, L. M. (2016). The Gaming Outliers: Does out-of-school gaming improve boys' reading skills in English as a second language? In E. Elstad (Ed.), Educational technology and Polycontextual bridging (pp. 39–61). The Netherlands: Sense Publishers. (31 pages)

 

Rindal, U. & Piercy, C. (2013). Being ‘neutral’? English pronunciation among Norwegian learners. World Englishes 32(2), 211-229. [19 pages]

 

Sauro, S., & Sundmark, B. (2016). Report from Middle-Earth: fan fiction tasks in the EFL classroom. ELT Journal, 70(4), 414-423. doi:10.1093/elt/ccv075  [10 pages]

 

Sylvén, L. K., & Sundqvist, P. (2012). Similarities between playing World of Warcraft and CLIL. Apples - Journal of Applied Language Studies, 6(2), 113–130. [18 pages]

 

Thorne, S. L., & Reinhardt, J. (2008). "Bridging activities," new media literacies, and advanced foreign language proficiency. CALICO Journal, 25(3), 558-572. [15 pages]

 

Thorne, S. L., Sauro, S., & Smith, B. (2015). Technologies, identities, and expressive activity. Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 35, 215–233. doi:10.1017/S0267190514000257 [19 pages]

 

 

Texts available on Canvas

 

Brevik, L.M. (forthcoming) The gamer, the surfer and the social media user: Unpacking the role of interest in developing English language learning. [20 pages]

 

Rindal, U., & Brevik, L.M. (Eds.) (2018 in press). English didactics in Norway – a collection of doctoral research 1988-2018. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget. [Students select 3 chapters (60 pages) for in-depth study]

 

One MA thesis in English didactics, author and title to be announced [90 pages]

 

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