Tone Stuler Myhre
I am a formally qualified teacher of English with a BA from the University of Oslo and an MA from NTNU in Trondheim. I have worked as an English teacher in upper secondary school for seven years and at a translation company for two years before I joined former Nord-Trøndelag University College, now Nord University, in 2012.
I have had the role of section coordinator of the English section and been responsible for planning and joining students on study trips/1 and 2-week courses to the Norwegian Study Centre in York, UK.
In connection with my PhD in English language learning and outdoor education, I have lived in England for a longer period of time where I have been a Visiting PhD Scholar at Birkbeck, University of London.
Extra curricular activities:
2024-
Member of the board at the Norwegian School In London
Teaching:
2012-2017
Different courses within the English subject in the 1-7 and 5-10 teacher training programmes (English language, the English-speaking world/civilisation and English didactics)
2022-
Research methods course for FoU thesis BA
Philosophy of science and research methods MA
2025-
English language didactics 1-10
DeKom: Partner in different projects in Norwegian schools
2025-
PPU: Foreign language didactics (responsible for the course)
Supervision:
MA thesis 2024/2025
Sensor:
2024-
FoU thesis BA
MA thess
Exams in methodology/philosophy of science and research methods MA
My research area is English didactics / foreign language didactics. I am interested in how different learning environments can affect learning with a focus on students emotions and motivation. I am particularly interested in oral communication in English and I think communicating orally in a foreign language is of utmost importance. In addition, spoken communication in a foreign language is challenging to learn.
My PhD thesis investigated the potential for learning oral communication in English (using outdoor education) in lower secondary school in Norway and how outdoor environments can affect students' foreign language anxiety, foreign language enjoyment and motivation. The positive results were interpreted to be due to outdoor environments offering different affordances (learning opportunities) than the classroom.
In my PhD thesis I introduced the concepts «thematic affordances» and "environmental affordances" under the umbrella term "outdoor affordances". Thematic affordances refers to potential themes that outdoor environments offer which students can talk about and «environmental affordances» refers to the possibilities the outdoors offer for organising the teaching, e.g. the outdoors offer more space between groups of students when speaking the foreign language. In my PhD I applied both quantitative and qualitative research methods (mixed methods).
The title of my PhD thesis is:
Myhre, T. S. (2025). Foreign Language Learning and Outdoor Education at Lower Secondary School: A Mixed-Methods Study on Experiences, Emotions and Motivation. Nord universitet.
Research group:
Extended classroom and varied learning methods
Reviewer:
Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching
International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching
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