The English Department’s online Thesis Festival will take place on Wednesday 19 May, starting at 4:15 pm, in Zoom at https://aboakademi.zoom.us/j/64063179969

Programme:

Welcome

Presentations of thesis work

 Lisa Martin-Harewood (BA):

“American and British English – Orthographic and Lexical Tendencies of Finland Swedish Secondary School EFL Learners”       

Meredith Brown (BA/MA):

“A Comparative Case Study of NESTs in Two EFL Contexts: South Korea and Finland”

 Jannika Siimelä (MA):

“Finland-Swedish Upper Secondary School Students’ Perspectives on Development and Assessment of Speaking Skills : A Case Study of the Effects of Pedagogical Intervention”

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Matilda Söderbacka (MA):

“ ‘And the earth was without form and void’ : The Paradoxical Nature of Formlessness in Eleanor Wilner’s ‘Reading the Bible Backwards’”

Sara Hänninen (MA):

“The Use of Anglicisms in German, Swedish and Finnish Newspaper Advertising”

 Charlotte Stormbom (PhD):

“Gendered language in flux : The use of epicene pronouns in EFL and ELF writing”

H.W. DONNER ESSAY PRIZE 2021