Cette recherche s’inscrit dans le courant de l’analyse conversationnelle d’inspiration ethnométhodologique et intègre la perspective socioculturelle. Nous faisons une description située des pratiques d’apprentissage des membres des groupes de conversation du Centre de Ressources pour l’Apprentissage de Langues Étrangères en Autonomie. Sur les bases de données empiriques issues des enregistrements audio et vidéo de conversations exolingues entre apprenants de français et d’espagnol avec de locuteurs francophones et hispanophones, nous avons analysé le phénomène de la réparation (Schegloff, Jefferson & Sacks, 1977) pour décrire les « méthodes » (Garfinkel, 1967) utilisées par les participants, dans le but d’apporter des éléments à la conception de l’apprentissage dans l’action. Certaines caractéristiques des séquences de réparation sont montrées, ainsi que les orientations des participants vers l’expertise d’un des locuteurs. Nous avons pu constater la façon dont les partenaires exhibent une identité d’expert ou d’apprenant, catégories toujours changeantes au cours de l’interaction où la réparation est un outil indispensable. Nous montrons que la réparation dans les conversations exolingues est aussi une méthode d’apprentissage utilisée par les apprenants. L’interaction et particulièrement « l’interaction acquisitionelle » est un outil qui favorise l’appropriation de la L2 (« cognition in practice » Lave & Wenger, 1988 ; « community of practice », Wenger 1998) et nous permet en même temps d’observer le processus « on line » de l’appropriation des ressources linguistiques ainsi que la façon dont les participants résolvent les problèmes qui menacent l’intersubjectivité. Nous avons pu constater plus généralement, que l’apprentissage ne peut pas être défini à priori mais qu’il est contingent et contextuelle et émerge de la dynamique des activités dans l’interaction. / This research is based upon Conversation Analysis (CA) and integrates a sociocultural perspective. It describes the situated learning practices and conversations of a social group of people of a Self-Access Center. Based upon empirical data from audio and video recordings of exolingual conversations between French and Spanish learners with French and Spanish native speakers, the phenomenon of “repair” (Schegloff, Jefferson & Sacks, 1977) is analyzed to describe “methods” (Garfinkel, 1967) used by the participants in order to provide elements to understand the notion of learning-in-action. Some features of repair sequences are shown, as well as the orientations of one participant to the expertise of another participant. It is noticed that the speakers exhibit an identity of expert or learner, and I argue that category is a transitional and dynamic entity in the interaction where repair mechanism is an indispensable tool. I show that the repair mechanism in exolingual conversations is also a learning method used by learners. Interaction and particularly the "interaction for acquisition" is a tool that promotes L2 acquisition ("cognition in practice", Lave & Wenger, 1988; "community of practice", Wenger, 1998) and allows us to simultaneously observe the process "on line" of the appropriation of linguistic resources and the way participants resolve problems that risk intersubjectivity. I notice more generally, that learning cannot be defined a priori but it is contingent and contextual and emerges from the dynamic activities of interaction.

<p>In this essay, I have investigated whether players of World of Warcraft change their language to suit the gender of the character they play. I have researched if there are gender differences that correspond to what is defined as male and female language in mixed-sex conversations. Chat-logs, collected during four participant observations, were used for making an analysis based primarily on research by Coates (1993) and Yale (2007). Seven features were selected for analysis: amount of participation, hedges, questions, directives and commands, taboo language, compliments and grammar. It was possible to discover gender differences, but these were not consistent in all areas of research. For example, female characters had a higher contribution than males, as well as a higher use of hedges and tag-questions among males, which contradicts previous research. The lack of consistency might be due to the fact that the participants do not specifically consider all areas as typically female or male, or their unawareness of these tendencies. We also need to consider disagreement in previous gender studies as well as folklinguistic belief. The explanation of the lack of consistent differences may be a more equal relationship between males and females in this context, or due to thepossibility that the participants, who are usually male, make use of their normal male language.</p>

The purpose of this thesis is to extrapolate through research the conceptual underpinnings of a body of artwork created by Matt Sigmon. The thesis explains the work in relation to art historical references to readymade art and the dilemmas that arise when fine art is compared to consumer commodities.

Studien syftar till att beskriva hur fyra lärare mot yngre åldrar förhåller sig till och arbetar med värdegrunden genom litteraturen. Där litteraturen används som ett pedagogiskt verktyg för att förebygga konflikter eller belysa andra frågor som berör skolans värdegrund. Utifrån detta diskuteras litteraturens möjligheter och funktion i skolans värdegrundsarbete och därtill lärares beskrivna mål med värdegrunden genom litteraturarbetet samt val av litteratur. Studiens övergripande mål är att föra en diskussion om synen på skolans huvudsakliga uppdrag kunskapsuppdraget och värdegrundsuppdraget. Denna studie beskriver hur lärare förhåller sig till kunskapsuppdraget och värdegrundsuppdraget, där litteraturen får ha en central plats för arbetet med värdegrundsfrågor. Studien är också en beskrivning av lärarnas ämnesuppfattningar inom svenskämnet. Studien utgår ifrån följande frågeställningar: -Hur beskriver lärarna sitt arbete med värdegrunden genom litteraturen?  -Vilka förtjänster respektive utmaningar upplever lärarna att det finns med ett arbetssätt där litteratur används i värdegrundsarbetet?   -Vilka mål beskriver lärarna att de har med sitt arbete med värdegrunden genom litteraturen? -Hur motiverar lärarna sina didaktiska val av litteratur i syfte att beröra värdegrundsfrågor? Studiens valda metod är kvalitativa metoder genom lärarintervjuer och har därför ett lärarperspektiv. De utvalda lärarna har alla svenska som ett av sina huvudämnen. Det empiriska materialet analyseras utifrån teorier nära Louise M. Rosenblatts tankar om litteraturen som en nödvändighet i en demokrati och för att utveckla demokratiska medborgare. Även Gunilla Molloys syn på svenskämnet som ett demokratiämne samt Aidan Chambers teorier om litteraturläsningens inverkan på individen tas upp. Resultatet visar att lärarna har en konstruktivistisk syn på värdegrundsarbetet inom värdepedagogiken då värdegrundsfrågor arbetas medvetet med i hantering av konflikter och förebyggande värdegrundsarbete. Resultatet visar att lärarna ser litteraturen som en möjlighet att utveckla både elevers demokratiska värderingar och demokratiska förmågor. Litteraturens möjligheter att utveckla den känslomässiga inlevelseförmågan innefattande empati och förnuft genom att göra textkopplingar till sig själva och världen omkring sig framkom som centrala delar av arbetet med litteraturen. Lärarna beskriver rika möjligheter till deliberativa samtal utifrån litteraturen i undervisningen till att arbeta med värdegrundsrelaterade frågor men det framkom som en utmaning att få med alla elever i samtalen. Lärarna väljer texter utifrån elevernas samt gruppens behov och tidigare erfarenheter och kan därför sägas ha en erfarenhetspedagogisk ämnesuppfattning. Det framkom att lärarna inte bara ser svenskämnet som ett färdighetsämne utan också som ett demokratiämne med många möjligheter att bidra till den växande människans utveckling av demokratiska värderingar.

The main purpose of this study is to conduct a contrastive analysis on a corpus of Swedish and Spanish family conversations with respect to two adjacency pairs: opinion-agreement/disagreement (OADs) and offer-acceptance/rejection (OARs). On one hand, from a structural perspective, based on the methodology of Conversation Analysis, one of the objectives is to observe how (dis)preferred turns of the OADs and OARs are managed by the interlocutors. On the other hand, from a functional perspective, based on the methodology of Sociocultural Pragmatics, the intention is to study how face is constructed and how politeness is managed by the family members when expressing OADs and OARs. The structural analysis of OADs and OARs shows that the majority of agreements and acceptances follow the rules for preferred turns proposed by orthodox conversation analysts, i.e. they appear directly after the first part of the adjacency pair (opinion or offer), and they are brief and unambiguous. However, the structural analysis also reveals that 70% (Swedish corpus) and 72% (Spanish corpus) of the disagreements as well as 64% (Swedish corpus) and 70% (Spanish corpus) of the rejections have a tendency to not follow the proposed rules for dispreferred turns, i.e. they are not delayed or accompanied by hesitations, justifications, etc. and nor are they evaluated as dispreferred by the participants. This indicates that social perspective, especially face, has to be considered when deciding what is considered (dis)preferred. The functional analysis of the OADs indicates that the majority of the disagreements in both Swedish (68%) and Spanish (79%) corpus are not mitigated, but rather are expressed in a fairly direct manner. Swedes tend to avoid disagreements, and therefore we expected to find a major difference between the two groups. One explanation could be that family members enjoy close relationships, and therefore the Swedes feel free to express their disagreements. As for the impact on the family members face, in both groups, it is both autonomy face and affiliation face that are influenced when OADs are expressed. As for agreement, for example, it is usually autonomy face that is affected. We interpret this as a way for the participants to show that both speakers and listeners have valuable opinions that deserve to be both voiced and commented on. This reveals the more discursive (rather than ritual) nature of OADs. In addition, the functional study of OARs shows that acceptances and rejections in both corpora are expressed using both ritual and attenuating politeness according to the norms required by the situation. Concerning the impact on face, autonomy face has different requirements in the two cultures: in the Swedish conversations, it is important to offer food without insisting several times, and in the Spanish corpus, it is important to offer food more than one or two times, and there is also a tendency to refuse the offer several times before accepting it. Therefore, according to one’s situational role, one has to know how to both give and receive offers, which points to the more ritual nature of OARs. Finally, we want to emphasize that by adding a social perspective to the structural one, we can interpret the meaning of the conversations in a way that provides a broader understanding of what is being said as participants express OADs and OARs.

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Children’s experiences are the cornerstone of all that matters in elementary schools. It is therefore the purpose of this study to shed further light into what those experiences might be, particularly as they are present in arts-infused education. Over a period of almost two school years I followed a group of primary grade students in and out of their classrooms at Central Arts Elementary School in an urban mid-Western Canadian school district. Through conversation, recordings, artwork, scripts, and visual images, as teacher-researcher-artist, I collected a series of moments that I believe best describes the nature of these students’ experiences in arts-infused education. Concepts of identity, place, imagination, and self were explored. I considered the lived curriculum of the classroom, and also the ways in which the children’s experiences with the arts resonated alongside my own artistic endeavours. The study is a multi-method inquiry informed by arts-based, narrative, and ethnographical research practices. There are elements of ethnodrama, in the ways in which some events are portrayed through scripted descriptions in a concluding chapter of the work. Children’s art, and the art of classroom life are revealed through both image and text. Puppets, masks, and a variety of other artistic media are brought forward for the purposes of consideration and discussion. In all, the work is unique in its attention to the words of children, and extended researcher engagement. Implications of the study include the importance of listening to children when they speak, continuing to offer the arts as pathways to greater awareness in schools, and considering children’s relationships as powerful mentoring experiences for one another.

Syftet med den här studien är att undersöka hur tre lärare i årskurs 1 arbetar med läsmotivation. Vidare är syftet att undersöka om pojkar och flickor motiveras till läsning på samma sätt. Läsförmåga är en förutsättning för att kunna leva och verka i ett samhälle, eftersom läsning är centralt i människors liv. Det framgår dock av PIRLSresultat från 2016 att flickor presterar bättre än pojkar när det kommer till läsning. Jag vill därför undersöka hur lärare motiverar elever till läsning. Den här studien baseras på tre observationer och tre intervjuer med yrkesverksamma lärare. Observationerna dokumenteras i observationsscheman utifrån bestämda händelser, och intervjuerna spelas in och transkriberas. Resultatet visar att flickor och pojkar generellt inte motiveras till läslust på samma sätt. Det som motiverar elever till läsning är individuellt och beror inte på kön. Elever motiveras till läsning genom att lärare bland annat förklarar nyttan av att kunna läsa samt genom att eleverna själva får välja böcker.

Inom svenskundervisningen ska elever lära sig att samtala om elevnära frågor och ämnen genom att fråga, kommentera och framföra egna åsikter (Skolverket, 2017). Läroplanen Lgr11 beskriver inte hur lärare ska planera sin undervisning för att elever ska få möjligheten att utveckla ovan nämnda förmågor. I denna studie analyserades lågstadieelevers muntliga förmågor. Hur samtal utifrån skönlitteratur respektive iscensatta samtal kan bidra till att elever i årskurs tre utvecklar förmågorna att diskutera, uttrycka åsikter och framföra samt bemöta argument. För att få reda på hur lärare nyttjar skönlitteratur i sin svenskundervisning samt hur de arbetar för att elever ska utveckla de utvalda muntliga förmågorna har semistrukturerade intervjuer nyttjats. Genom en didaktisk design har en jämförelse mellan iscensatta samtal och samtal kring en skönlitterär berättelse genomförts för att kunna bedöma vilken typ av samtal som främst främjar elevers utveckling av de utvalda muntliga förmågorna. Resultatet av de semistrukturerade intervjuerna med lärare visade att de flesta lärarna främst nyttjar skönlitteratur vid individuell läsning respektive högläsning och stundvis inkluderades skönlitteraturen vid andra temaarbeten. För att elever ska utveckla de utvalda muntliga förmågorna arbetar lärarna främst för ett tryggt klassrumsklimat för att eleverna ska våga uttrycka sina tankar och åsikter. Trots tidigare forskningsrekommendationer att nyttja skönlitteratur som utgångspunkt vid samtal visar den didaktiska designen att de iscensatta samtalen främjade elevernas utveckling av de muntliga förmågorna. / In Swedish education regarding Swedish as a subject, pupils should learn to talk about pupil issues and subjects by asking, commenting and expressing their own opinions (Skolverket, 2017). The curriculum Lgr11 does not describe how teachers should plan their lessons in order to enable pupils to develop the abovementioned abilities. In this study, the oral abilities of primary school pupils were analysed, how conversations based on fiction and staged conversations could help pupils in grade three to develop the ability to discuss, express opinions, argue and respond to arguments. Semi structured interviews have been used to investigate how teachers use fiction in their Swedish education and how they work to enable that pupils develop the chosen oral skills. Through a didactic design, a comparison between staged conversations and conversations about a fictional story has been conducted. This was done to be able to assess what type of conversation that primarily promotes the pupils' development of the chosen oral skills. The result of the interviews showed that most teachers mainly use fiction for individual reading and reading aloud, while fiction was included occasionally in other thematic work. For pupils to develop the chosen oral skills, teachers are primarily working for a safe classroom environment to enable pupils to express their thoughts and opinions. Despite recommendations from previous research to use fiction as a basis for conversation, the didactic design shows that the staged conversations promoted the pupils' development of the oral skills. In Swedish education regarding Swedish as a subject, pupils should learn to talk about pupil issues and subjects by asking, commenting and expressing their own opinions (Skolverket, 2017). The curriculum Lgr11 does not describe how teachers should plan their lessons in order to enable pupils to develop the abovementioned abilities. In this study, the oral abilities of primary school pupils were analysed, how conversations based on fiction and staged conversations could help pupils in grade three to develop the ability to discuss, express opinions, argue and respond to arguments. Semi structured interviews have been used to investigate how teachers use fiction in their Swedish education and how they work to enable that pupils develop the chosen oral skills. Through a didactic design, a comparison between staged conversations and conversations about a fictional story has been conducted. This was done to be able to assess what type of conversation that primarily promotes the pupils' development of the chosen oral skills. The result of the interviews showed that most teachers mainly use fiction for individual reading and reading aloud, while fiction was included occasionally in other thematic work. For pupils to develop the chosen oral skills, teachers are primarily working for a safe classroom environment to enable pupils to express their thoughts and opinions. Despite recommendations from previous research to use fiction as a basis for conversation, the didactic design shows that the staged conversations promoted the pupils' development of the oral skills.

This study explored the interaction between persons and songs in therapy, and was described according to the ideas of Social Constructionism and the Narrative Approach (Freedman & Combs, 1996; Gergen, 1985, 1994; Hoyt, 1998). The meanings around songs and the therapist-client interaction were explored. A flowing process evolved that allowed for new ideas to become part of the therapeutic conversations (Anderson & Goolishian, 1988; Hoffman, 1994). The research was qualitative as befits the above-mentioned epistemology. Therapeutic conversations evolved with a single client, in which songs and music were used to explore her life story. An unstructured interview was conducted to explore the therapeutic process underlying the incorporation of songs in therapeutic conversations. The hermeneutic method of analysis was employed to identify themes and meanings that encompassed the research participant's life story as well as the therapeutic process in which songs were utilised to facilitate therapeutic dialogues. It was found that the themes elicited in this study reflected the themes discussed in the literature. The following themes underlying the therapeutic process of songs were identified: songs created an emotional release; they elicited memories, feelings and imagery; they facilitated relaxation, coloured relationships and provided a new skill. This exploration of the themes allowed for rich descriptions of the participant's story and the therapeutic conversations, to emerge. / Clinical psychology / M.A. (Clinical psychology)