Syftet med denna studie är att belysa och få kunskap om inlärningsprocessen av andraspråk när de äger rum genom ämnet svenska. Jag vill kartlägga vad det innebär att lära sig ett andra språk samt hur det kan gå till. Undersökningen utgår ifrån intervjuer med lärare i ämnet svenska och visar vilken syn samt vilka erfarenheter av område de har. Syftet är att ge en översikt med förbättring för elever med svenska som andraspråk.

José Asunción Silva is a Colombian poet most known for having renewed the metrics in Spanish poetry during the 19th century. José Asunción Silva's only novel, De sobremesa 1887-1896 [After dinner, 1887-1896] written in 1896 is a significant and representative modernist novel in the tradition of Latin-American modernismo.Silvas novel has been considered as a structureless, narratively disordered and chaotic text by many literary critics since its first publication in 1925. The text presents a great deal of fragmentation on the surface level: the story is presented by means of temporal discontinuity and multiple narrative voices and its thematic richness seems to be endless. The characters reveal multiple perspectives and a plurality of discourses.This dissertation determines and analyzes the formal and thematic aspects of the text that underlie its apparently disordered structure. The analysis focuses on the study of the referentiality of the text and some of its narrative components. It examines how the different fragments of the story, which are apparently neither logically nor thematically ordered on the surface level, are associated and integrated in the novel as a whole.Silva as a novelist makes use of some of the conventions of poetry and the techniques he applied to his poems. Contrast, association, assimilation and parallelisms are ways of creating new organizational forms of expressions in his prose work. The protagonist of De sobremesa, himself a poet, also plays the role of author, narrator, narratee and reader of his own prose work, his personal diary. This is a very particular feature in the context of Latin-American modernist novels written between 1882- 1902. The study analyzes the different roles of the character in the story to prove that the sense of unity is built by centring the text technically and thematically on the protagonist in its different roles. Silva makes the protagonist the point of convergence of the whole text.This dissertation suggests that there is an organized structure underlying the apparent disorder and incoherence of the text. The basis for Silvas text is diversity and the different where even the smallest parts prove to correspond with a bigger one. For a text of the 19th century, this is an innovative and experimental way of writing that seeks to create unity out of disorder and fragmentation.

Abstract

When I attended a class in Swedish as a second language, at Karlstads University 2011, I learned about voice and coherence in text. This made me curious about our textbooks in school. In what way do textbooks differ from coherent texts? What do students prefer? Are easy to read texts always better?

To make a text easy to read, you must take away some and you have to add some. What to take away and what to add, is one of the things that I intended to find out during my study.

Due to Björn Meander (Strömqvist [red], 1995 s 15), in Sweden, people started to get interested in our textbooks in the middle and the end of the nineteenth century. There had been some critical voices raised against the Swedish Läsebok för folkskolan, especially from Ellen Key in 1898. Her critique was mainly directed towards the simple language in the book and the lack of original texts (Strömqvist (red), 1995 s 15). This was one of the reasons that led to the release of two of Sweden’s most famous schoolbooks, Nils Holgerssons underbara resa genom Sverige by Selma Lagerlöf and Svenskarna och deras hövdingar by Heidenstam. During the twentieth century the interest continued regarding the textbooks in school.

In this study I have barely scratched the surface. I intended to find out whether students found the most joy in easy-to-read-texts, or if they thought the original texts were to prefer. And depending on the answer, why is that?

A lot of text for example facts, describing text and details, are in fact often taken out of a text that is easy to read. By this I mean that students miss out of a great deal of exciting adventures that a book (in its original version) can provide! But on the other hand, when it comes to make a choice between reading a book that is manipulated or not reading it at all, the choice seems an easy one.

Keywords: Easy-to-read, originaltext, coherence, voice, causality, outside knowledge, connections, engagement.

Abstract

Titel:

The Introduction of English at the Junior level of the Swedish 9-Year Comprehensive Compulsory School: A study of perceived knowledge in relation to motivation conducted among 3rdgrade students.

Författare:

Andersson, Rolf Engelska C, 2011

Antal sidor:

26

Abstract:

This paper focuses on perceived knowledge of students at the junior level of the comprehensive compulsory 9-year school, as this has an impact on their motivation to study the language. The national curriculum of 2011 assumes that English is introduced at an early stage, during the junior level. The purpose of this paper is to examine how students who start English in the first grade, according to the recommendations of the curriculum, relate to the subject. The paper contains a bibliography section, where I present language research concerning foreign language introduction, language acquisition and motivation, followed by a presentation of a historical view on second language learning in Sweden, and then an investigation conducted by a questionnaire. The purpose of the investigation is to measure the students’ perceived knowledge of English, as this affects their motivation. The investigation is limited to two third grade classes in a junior level school in a rural, scarcely populated municipality in the south-west of Sweden. All in all 40 students took part in the study. The aim of the paper is to answer the following question: How do the pupils regard their own achievements in English?

The students have a general ability to evaluate their personal achievements and knowledge subjectively. They seem quite confident about their listening and speaking skills. The most difficult language segment, writing, where the language skills and requirements are most clearly defined, is the language area where the students feel that their ability is weaker. All students, with one exception, agree that language studies are important for them. What the study also shows is the variety of languages that students wish to study, i.e. Chinese and Japanese together with Spanish, Greek and sign languages show how the 9-year-old students are aware of the world around them. The reason why this investigation has been conducted is to investigate the students’ perceived knowledge as this has an impact on their motivation to study the language.

Nyckelord

: Early English introduction, English at the junior level, perceived knowledge, motivation.

The aim of this essay is to investigate, using Grice’s theories, two episodes from the sitcom named The Big Bang Theory in terms of finding out how the flouting and other non-observances of Gricean maxims of quantity, quality, relation and manner are deployed to generate humour in the series. Another aim is to find out whether a certain Gricean maxim was non-observed more than any other. The Analysis section includes transcriptions of the selected parts of the two episodes which I have analysed. I found that the Gricean maxims serve as waypoints to humour in combination with extra-linguistic features such as body language, facial expressions, tone of voice etc.

Syftet med denna studie är att få en överblick över läs- och skrivundervisningen i förskoleklass, årskurs 1, 2 och 3. Syftet är även att belysa vilka läromedel som används i undervisningen. Frågeställningarna är:

-         Hur undervisas elever i läsning

-         Hur undervisas elever i skrivning

-         Vilka läromedel används i svenska

Studien är baserad på en enkätundersökning till verksamma pedagoger i 4 kommuner i Västra Götaland.

Resultatet visar att många pedagoger i förskoleklass hjälper barnen att utveckla sin fonologiska medvetenhet med material som innehåller mycket språklekar. I årskurs 1 läggs mycket av elevernas studietid på att lära sig avkoda genom att koppla samman grafem och fonem. I alla årskurser förekommer det att pedagogerna ger eleverna strategier för utveckla sin egen skrivning och läsning inom olika genrer.  Eleverna ges dock inte tillfälle att samtala och utveckla sin läs- och skrivförmåga tillsammans i meningsfulla sammanhang.

I resultatet kan man också se att datorn inte har haft den genomslagskraft i undervisningen som den haft i övriga samhället.

The aim of the conference was to develop the study of Comparative Literature through Nordic collaboration both in its own discipline and in Modern Language and Cultural studies. As the title for the conference suggests, the principal question for the conference was the challenge that the study of literature encounters in an age of digitalization and globalization. It was our aim to encourage discussion of how literary studies respond to the ongoing changes in media and technology, politics and economy. Many have argued that the Humanities currently are in a state of crisis. We believe that the discipline seldom has found itself in such an interesting and fruitful historical moment. Several of these questions have surfaced duringearlier media system changes, in particular during Romanticism and Modernism, which provided the conference with an historical frame. The conference Codex and Code also addressed questions of authenticity and originality, identity and gender, literary genres and reading practices, media and materiality, culture and popular culture, language and history, world literature, work aesthetics, translations, and canon formation.

The study investigates four areas in which the Augustinian presence was felt throughout the Renaissance: psychology, epistemology, the arts, and politics (one chapter is dedicated to each area). Augustine’s intellectual and spiritual development is interpreted as consisting of an early Plotinian period (ca. 386-396), and a later Pauline period (ca. 386-430). These influences resulted in two partially contradictory perspectives: one predominantly vertical (incorporeal and a-historical), the other more horizontal (taking into account the vicissitudes of time and history). The argument of the study is that the Plotinian and Pauline paradigms influenced the Renaissance in different ways, traceable in its literature. Without pretending comprehensiveness, the study follows a rough chronological outline. After an introduction that investigates Augustine’s development, the first chapter centers on Petrarch while the last three have Edmund Spenser as their special focus. Chapters two and four have a broader perspective that in addition to Spenser take in seminal thinkers from Ficino and Luther to Greville and Hooker.

Artikeln visar hur den engelske renässanspoeten Edmund Spenser i sin politiska teori, uttryckt i bok 1 av hans epos The Faerie Queene, går en balansgång mellan de två kyrkofäderna Eusebius och Augustinus

Artikeln visar hur kyrkofadern Augustinus' logocentriska syn på kommunikationen kan uppdelas i en formell del (där det numerära är avgörande) och en verbal del (där språket är avgörande), och att dessa bådadelar influerade renässansen på olika sätt; artikeln tar sedan Spensers författarskap som exempel

En undersökning av de filosofiska och sociala konnotationer orden "man" och "beast" hade från den engelska renässansen och framåt

Artikeln visar hur både Petrarca och Wordsworth använder sig av kyrkofadern Augustinus' teorier och personliga exempel tagna från hans Bekännelser

The poetry and literary theory of Sir Phillip Sidney have become a focal point for a broader investigation of the interaction between humanism and reformation. Elizabethan England, according to some literary scholars, was a battleground between these "incompatible" forces. This study seeks to modify this forced dichotomy by showing that humanism and Protestantism were not at odds. It focuses on Luther and Calvin, and demonstrates that their views on learning and human reason were more differentiated than the blanket condemnation they often are accused of. A second objective is to show that Sidney's poetics largely conform to the guidelines on reason set down by the reformers.

An essay is presented which examines the use of William Blake's poem "And did those feet" ("Jerusalem"), in various contexts. The author explores the process by which Blake's poem has become a symbol of a class-based and militaristic system. According to the author, even as Blake became the Romantic writer who was the most influential in the 20th century, editors and scholars were slow to emphasize the political dimensions of Blake's art.

Artikeln visar att Dickens roman Hard Times är uppbygd somen predikan baserad på ett av det engelska kyrkoårets texter

Artikeln jämför de båda engelska poeterna Philip Sidneys och William Wordsworths inställning till den skapande processen, och till språket som kommunikativt medium

Artikeln visar hur den engelske romantiske poeten Wordsworth influerades av Renässansens poetik