I skolans tidigare åldrar fokuseras till stor del på läs- och skrivutveckling och vilka metoder som lämpar sig bäst för elevers lärande. Den här systematiska litteraturstudien handlar om elevers tidiga skrivutveckling med hjälp av digitala verktyg och att skriva sig till läsning (ASL-metoden). Syftet är att studera om digitala verktyg och ASL-metoden kan gynna elevers tidiga skrivande. Studiens syfte och frågeställning besvaras med en analys av flertalet vetenskapliga artiklar. Resultatet visar att digitala verktyg och ASL-metoden kan vara ett bra komplement till den mer traditionella skrivundervisningen med penna och papper. Dock visar ett resultat att bland det viktigaste, oavsett modell, är att skrivundervisningen behöver vara systematisk och tydligt strukturerad.

This study was initiated when the researcher became aware of the problem that learners from low socio-economic environments tend to experience barriers to learning in numeracy and literacy. These barriers were identified in a class of Grade 1 learners through extensive literature study, after which the development, teaching and learning of numeracy and literacy in grade 1 were investigated. The researcher then developed intervention programmes for literacy and numeracy, each running for a period of six weeks, in order to overcome learners’ difficulties in these learning areas. Each programme was subdivided into three shorter programmes of two weeks each, which addressed different aspects of literacy and numeracy. Each sub-programme was supplemented by a schedule of daily activities in order to reinforce learning. Learners’ competence in literacy and numeracy was assessed before starting the programme and re-assessed at the end, using the same tests they had done at the beginning. Learners’ marks in both sets of tests were compared, which demonstrated their progress or non-progress after having participated in the intervention programmes. / Educational Studies / M. Ed. (Sielkundige Opvoedkunde)

本研究旨在了解國中英語教師對九年一貫課程之態度與實踐，以期了解基層英語教師如何看待九年一貫課程改革以及他們如何在教室中實施這套新課程。同時，本研究希望藉由國中英語教師對九年一貫課程之態度與實踐，再一次檢視九年一貫課程改革的現況。 本研究採取質的研究方法，以台北市2名公立國中英文教師為研究對象。研究過程採取觀察、訪談、文件分析等方式為主要資料蒐集來源。資料的涵蓋面向包含：(1) 教師對九年一貫課程之態度；(2) 教師對九年一貫英語課程之態度；(3) 教師對英語教科書之態度；(4) 考試及測驗對教師之影響；(5) 教師的教學技巧與能力；(6) 教師的專業發展。經由這些資料，本研究討論了三個與九年一貫相關的議題：(1) 教師的教學自主權；(2) 教師的專業發展；(3) 教科書的開放政策。 本研究並根據以上三個議題的討論結果，進一步提供相關建議，以作為教育行政單位、學校單位、國民中學英文領域教師及未來研究的參考。 / The purpose of this study is to present the results of junior high school EFL teachers’ attitudes toward Grade 1-9 Curriculum and their classroom practice. This study aims to reveal how junior high school EFL teachers view Grade 1-9 Curriculum and how they implement this new curriculum in their classrooms.This study also offers another chance to take a look at the current situation of the implementation of Grade 1-9 Curriculum. This study adopts a qualitative research method and selects two participant teachers in a well established junior high school to serve as cases which work for in-depth understanding of teachers’ attitudes and their classroom practice. In this case study, data-gathering methods include interview, observation, and document analysis. The collecting information is presented in six dimensions: (1) teachers’ attitudes toward Grade 1-9 Curriculum, (2) teachers’ attitudes toward Grade 1-9 English Curriculum, (3) teachers’ attitudes toward English textbooks, (4) the influence of examinations and tests on teaching, (5) teaching skills and abilities, and (6) teacher professional development. Based on the above information, this study discusses three concerns related to Grade 1-9 Curriculum: (1) teacher autonomy, (2) professionalism, and (3) the policy of liberation of textbooks. Finally, some pedagogical implications and suggestions stemmed from the previous discussions are proposed to serve as a reference for the central authority, school administrators, junior high school EFL teachers, and future research on Grade 1-9 Curriculum.

本質性個案研究目的在探討以國際教育網路社群IEARN進行專題導向式跨國互動EFL學習的英語教學設計。該學習方式與教學模式特性諸多符合九年一貫課程改革理念。然而，在國內文獻及研究顯示，極少英語教師進行專題式網路教學設計。本研究個案是國中兩名英語教師與其班導學生為期兩年半的跨國文化專題學習。從個案訪談與課室觀察中發現，資訊科技融入英語教學，教師具備高度科技能力並非必要考量，而是教學策略、班級經營、師生合作為首務。 依據個案進行專題式導向學習過程中所面臨的挑戰與完成的歷程，研究者對教師、學校主管、教育當局與社會提出建言，以求改善與進步。這項教學革新並非只是順應課程改革，更是為了發展學生全面的學習與實踐終身學習為目標。 / The purpose of this research is to understand the challenge of project-based telecommunication activities through the IEARN for EFL learning. The learning methods and teaching strategies of project-based learning (PBL) conform to the rationale of Grade 1-9 Curriculum reform. However, literature showed that very few EFL teachers became involved in PBL with information technology for instruction. This research, conducted as a case study in the qualitative methodology, describes how two junior high school English teachers and their homeroom students implemented PBL through international network and how they developed cross-culture awareness in half and two years. It was found that successful EFL learning infused with information technology relied much more on pedagogy, class management and teacher-student collaboration than on teacher's computer skills. Based on the challenges and implement revealed in the process of PBL through telecommunication activities, the researcher gave suggestions to teachers, school administrators, educational authority and community for further improvement. The instructional innovation not only met educational reform standards but also developed EFL students' holistic learning in a lifelong fashion.

1 online resource (xii, 171 leaves) : illustrations (chiefly color), color graphs / ADHD negatively impacts academic performance, and the traditional classroom setting conflicts with the symptoms of ADHD. This research examined the potential of teaching through play and peer-teaching as alternative teaching methods to improve the mathematical performance of Grade 1 children with symptoms of ADHD; by answering, would adapting teaching methods to include teaching through play and/or peer-teaching, in the South African classroom, improve the mathematical performance of children with symptoms of ADHD? A pre-test-post-test control group design was employed in this comparative experimental study. Participants were purposively selected then randomly assigned to one of three intervention groups. An eight-week intervention was implemented as teaching through play or peer-teaching. Pre-test and post-test scores were analysed using a dependent t-test, a Wilcoxon Signed Rank test, and a Kruskal Wallis test. Teaching through play and peer-teaching have the potential to improve the mathematical performance of Grade 1 children with symptoms of ADHD. Special precautions were taken in the process of minor research participants, adhering to the ethical principles of beneficence and non-maleficence, justice, and autonomy. / Psychology / M. Sc. (Psychology (Research Consultation))

Denna studie belyser lärarnas syn på hur undervisningspraktiken och elevernas lärande påverkas av multimodal undervisning med lärplatta i svenskämnet. Föreliggande studies syfte är att skildra lärarnas syn på hur den multimodala undervisningen med lärplatta kan agera som ett hinder eller verka främjande för elevernas lärande i årskurserna F-6. Den belyser även hur detta påverkar lärarnas egen undervisning i klassrumssituationen. Detta görs med fokus på frågeställningar som hanterar hur multimodalt lärande med lärplatta enligt lärarna möjliggörs i deras undervisningspraktik, samt lärarnas syn på främjanden och hinder kring detta arbete. Studien bearbetas med ett designorienterat multimodalt perspektiv, en teori som trycker på att skapa sammanhang där form och funktion sammanlänkar. Undersökningen sker genom enkäter som distribuerats via mejl och Facebook-grupper och bearbetas utifrån ett kvantitativt perspektiv med inslag av kvalitativt data. Resultatet i studien visar att multimodal undervisning med lärplatta kan ske på ett antal olika sätt, där de främsta arbetsområdena är vid skrivande, läsande och lyssnande. Resultatet visar även att denna undervisning är främjande på ett flertal sätt, så som anpassning vid bland annat finmotorikssvårigheter samt att det är intresseväckande hos eleverna. Det visar sig även finnas hindrande effekter av denna undervisning, exempelvis hur användningen av lärplatta även hämmar finmotoriks-utvecklingen, samt att dess användning kommer med ett antal tekniska problem och missförstånd. Slutsatsen som dras av detta är att lärarna använder lärplattan på flera olika sätt, med övergripande likartade användningsområden, samt att deras syn på multimodal undervisning med lärplatta innefattar både för- och nackdelar angående elevers lärande. / This study highlights teachers' views on how teaching practice and students' learning are affected by multimodal teaching with a learning tablet in the Swedish subject.  The purpose of this study is to depict teachers' views on how multimodal teaching with a learning tablet can act as an obstacle or promote students' learning in grades F-6.  It also highlights how this affects the teachers' own teaching in the classroom situation. This is done with a focus on issues that deal with how multimodal learning with a learning tablet is enabled in their teaching practice, as well as the teachers' views on the promotion and obstacles around this work. The study is processed with a design-oriented multimodal perspective, which is a theory that emphasizes creating contexts where form and function link. The survey takes the form of questionnaires distributed via email and Facebook groups and is processed from a quantitative perspective with elements of qualitative data. The results of the study show that multimodal teaching with a learning tablet can take place in several forms, where the main areas of work are in writing, reading, and listening. The results also show that this type of teaching is beneficial in a few different ways, such as accommodation to fine motor difficulties, among other things, and that this way of working causes an interest among the students. There are hindering effects of this teaching as well, for example how the use of learning tablets also inhibits the development of the fine motor skills, and that its use comes with a few technical problems and misunderstandings. The conclusion drawn from this is that teachers use the learning tablet in several different ways, with overall similar uses, and that their view of multimodal teaching with a learning tablet includes both advantages and disadvantages regarding students' learning.

Abstract in Afrikaans and English / This study was initiated when the researcher became aware of the problem that learners from low socio-economic environments tend to experience barriers to learning in numeracy and literacy. These barriers were identified in a class of Grade 1 learners through extensive literature study, after which the development, teaching and learning of numeracy and literacy in grade 1 were investigated. The researcher then developed intervention programmes for literacy and numeracy, each running for a period of six weeks, in order to overcome learners’ difficulties in these learning areas. Each programme was subdivided into three shorter programmes of two weeks each, which addressed different aspects of literacy and numeracy. Each sub-programme was supplemented by a schedule of daily activities in order to reinforce learning. Learners’ competence in literacy and numeracy was assessed before starting the programme and re-assessed at the end, using the same tests they had done at the beginning. Learners’ marks in both sets of tests were compared, which demonstrated their progress or non-progress after having participated in the intervention programmes. / Inleidend tot die studie word ‘n uiteensetting gegee van hoe die navorser bewus geword het van die navorsingsprobleem, wat as volg gestel word: Die navorser is bewus daarvan dat leerders uit ‘n lae sosio-ekonomiese milieu gewoonlik struikelblokke in leeraktiwiteite in gesyferdheid en geletterdheid ervaar. Deur literatuurstudie is die struikelblokke wat graad 1-leerders in geletterdheid en gesyferdheid ondervind, geïdentifiseer. Vervolgens is die ontwikkeling, onderrig en leer van geletterdheid en gesyferdheid volledig uiteengesit en intervensieprogramme in geletterdheid en gesyferdheid saamgestel om leerders se struikelblokke tydens leeraktiwiteite te bowe te kom. Drie intervensieprogramme in geletterdheid en drie in gesyferdheid is saamgestel, wat elk vir twee weke gevolg is. Volledige skedules van daaglikse aktiwiteite wat by elke program uitgevoer is, is ook ingesluit. Leerders se bedrewenheid in geletterdheid en gesyferdheid is geassesseer voor daar met die programme begin is. Na afloop van die intervensieprogramme het leerders weer dieselfde toetse afgelê waardeur hulle vordering of nie-vordering bepaal kon word. Verskeie tabelle is saamgestel wat leerders se vordering aantoon. / Educational Studies / M. Ed. (Sielkundige Opvoedkunde)