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<p class=MsoNormal>Blessaður Elmar<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Getur þú vakið athygli á þessari málstofu á meistara- og
doktorsdegi sviðsins meðal nemenda í ensku? <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><b><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Enska á meistara- og
doktorsdegi 29. október<br>
</span></b><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Föstudaginn 29.
október fer fram í annað sinn svonefndur meistara- og doktorsdagur
Hugvísindasviðs. Alls munu 28 nemendur úr ólíkum greinum hugvísinda kynna
fjölbreytt verkefni í 7 málstofum. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Sérstök athygli nemenda í ensku
er vakin á eftirfarandi málstofu. Heildardagskrá má finna á <a
href="http://www.hug.hi.is"><span style='color:windowtext'>www.hug.hi.is</span></a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>MÁLSTOFA III - ENSKA</span></b><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><br>
STOFA 207 - KL. 13.30 – 14.30<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Málstofustjóri: Hulda Kristín Jónsdóttir,
doktorsnemi<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>13.30 - Árný Aurangasri Hinriksson, doktorsnemi í
ensku<br>
Politics of dispossession: A postcolonial after effect of the “Divide and Rule”
policies of the British Administration as seen in 8 selected novels from Sri
Lanka written after Independence.</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><br>
My presentation will examine the politics of dispossession of Sri Lankan ethnic
Tamils as depicted in eight novels written by resident as well as expatriate
novelists in English. I will be examining the narratives on the lines of
Homi K. Bhabha’s conception of the “unhomely” in which he suggests that “the
recesses of the domestic space becomes sites for history’s most intricate
invasions. In that displacement, the borders between home and world
become confused”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>13.50 - Anna Jeeves, doktorsnemi í ensku<br>
Secondary School English: Student Perceptions of Relevance</span></b><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'><br>
This study explores the question of perceived relevance of secondary school
English studies in Iceland. Little work has been done on the role and nature of
relevance in language learning and its relationship to recognized concepts such
as motivation and attitudes, autonomy, self-concept, international orientation,
and identity.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>The focus in this research is on the experience of
students and young people, and on acknowledging the voices of language learners
themselves. Through semi-structured interviews, beliefs and attitudes of
secondary school students towards English and English secondary school studies
are investigated, along with the perceived relevance of these studies to their
present and future identity as English users, and their language needs outside
the classroom. Interviews with university students and young employees explore
a retrospective view of beliefs of how secondary-school English studies have
proved relevant to their individual situations.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>In this presentation, analysis of interviews with
secondary school students will be discussed and a four-faceted model of
relevance in English-language learning put forward. This model exposes the
diverse role of English at secondary schools in Iceland. It suggests a wide
spectrum of actual present and anticipated future relevance, and a very real
English-language identity among young Icelanders today.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>14.10 - Letetia B. Jónsson, MA-nemi í ensku<br>
The Importance of Multicultural Literature</span></b><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><br>
The central focus of this paper addresses the importance of multicultural
literature within the context of accommodating cultural diversity in Icelandic
children’s books. In order to evaluate the significance of multicultural
literature the discourse considers: this evolving canon of literature, ongoing
debates in defining multicultural literature and recognition of the need to
educate both immigrant and Icelandic students of the other, as a means to
avoiding the danger of a single story. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>The paper extends the discourse by conducting a study
of compulsory school teachers to establish teachers’ awareness of the concept
of multicultural literature as an extension of multicultural education. The
results of the study indicated questionable teacher preparedness in light of
increasingly culturally diverse Icelandic schools. A chronic lack of multicultural
literature specifically designed for the early readers, aged eight to twelve
years, was noted. Most strikingly was the inadequate training guideline
available for teachers, coupled with modest uptake of whole-school training
initiatives in multicultural education.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Með kveðju<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Sigurjón Ólafsson<br>
Kynningar- og vefstjóri Hugvísindasviðs<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Háskóli Íslands<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Aðalbygging,
Sæmundargötu 2, 3. hæð<br>
101 Reykjavík, Iceland<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Netfang: sjon@hi.is<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.uni.hi.is/sjon">uni.hi.is/sjon</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Sími: 525 5196 / 894 9446<o:p></o:p></p>
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