Abstract The aim of the study was to investigate the quality of pupils’ narrative texts written either by hand or on a tablet. The questions concern which structures are characteristic of the texts as a whole and what is distinctive about hand-written texts and those written on a tablet. To investigate this, 46 pupil texts from grade 2 were analysed. Each pupil in the class wrote two texts, one with each writing tool. The overall theoretical approach in the study is dialogism, which views all utterances as being related to each other. In this study that means that the pupils received teaching about how to write a story, and then wrote stories of their own. Relief theory, which has its foundation in dialogism, was used as analytical framework. With this model, analyses are made of the text as a whole. The overall structure and focus of the text are regarded as the foreground and the additions and expanded details supporting these are viewed as the background text. This interaction between foreground and background gives the relief perspective. Proceeding from relief theory, the structures of the texts in their entirety were analysed. At the intermediate and local level of the texts, dialogues and connectives were analysed, along with the number of unique words and the total number of words. The relief of the texts was analysed in terms of quality at global, intermediate and local text level. The relief analysis revealed that three different categories of relief could be identified in these texts. The result shows that the difference in quality concerns how the backgrounds are expanded. The results of the study show that there are differences between the pupils’ handwritten texts and texts written on a tablet, but the differences are small. The biggest differences concern the number of unique words and the total number of words. The texts written on a tablet contain both more unique words and more words in total than texts written by hand.   Keywords relief theory, tablet, writing tools, early school years, student text, narrative text

Enligt nuvarande läroplan ska eleverna ges möjlighet att utveckla sitt skrivande både för hand och med digitala verktyg. Enligt skrivforskning är undervisning i årskurs 4–6 ett område som har ägnats alltför lite uppmärksamhet åt, främst när det gäller digital skrivning eftersom merparten av forskningen fokuserar på elever i de yngre och äldre åldrarna. Syftet med denna studie är att bidra med kunskap om hur olika svensklärare i årskurs 4–6 beskriver att de arbetar med digitala verktyg i skrivundervisningen och deras uppfattningar av digitala skrivverktyg. Frågeställningar som besvarats är: Hur beskriver verksamma svensklärare användandet av digitala verktyg i svenskämnets skrivundervisning? Vilka uppfattningar har olika svensklärare av digitala verktyg i skrivundervisningen? Semistrukturerade intervjuer har genomförts med fyra svensklärare för att bevara studiens frågeställningar. Datamaterialet har analyserats med en fenomenografisk ansats. Resultaten visar att eleverna använder digitala skrivverktyg i hög grad jämfört med att skriva för hand. Dessutom visar utfallet av den fenomenografiska analysen på sju olika sätt att uppfatta digitala skrivverktyg. / According to the current curriculum, students should be given the opportunity to develop their writing both by hand and with digital tools. According to research on writing, teaching in grades 4-6 is an area that has received too little attention, especially when it comes to digital writing, as most of the research focuses on students in the younger and older ages. The purpose of this study is to contribute knowledge about how different Swedish teachers in grades 4-6 describe how they work with digital tools when they teach writing and their perceptions of digital writing tools. The research questions that have been answered are: “How do Swedish teachers describe the use of digital tools in writing instruction?” and “What perceptions do different Swedish teachers have of digital tools in writing instruction?” Semi-structured interviews were conducted with four Swedish teachers to preserve the study's issues. The data material has been analyzed with a phenomenographic approach. The results show that students use digital writing tools to a greater extent compared to writing by hand. In addition, the outcome of the phenomenographic analysis shows seven different ways of perceiving digital writing tools.

Syftet med denna studie är att öka kunskapen om hur lärare upplever att elevers skrivinlärning samt finmotorik påverkas av den digitaliserade undervisningen som breder ut sig allt mer. Studien utgår från den teoretiska utgångspunkten, TPACK, för att ge en djupare förståelse om ämnet. Undersökningen bygger på kvalitativa semistrukturerade intervjuer med tio lärare som integrerar digitala verktyg i läs- och skrivundervisningen. Analysen av resultatet genomfördes med hjälp av tematisk analysmetod. Resultatet visar att digitala verktyg kan vara ett bra tillvägagångssätt när det gäller skrivinlärning. De flesta av lärarna hävdar att elevernas motivation och skrivglädje för att skriva texter förstärks genom en ökad tillgänglighet för redigering och justering av textinnehåll, vilket i sin tur bidrar till ökad omfattning av textproduktion. Det finns dock en del negativa aspekter med digitala verktyg, vilket bland annat är att eleverna kan distraheras av hemsidor och diverse program som påverkar undervisningen negativt. Resultatet visar också att analoga skrivverktyg, såsom penna och papper, bör användas när eleverna tränar på att forma bokstäver då det bland annat gynnar arbetsminnets kapacitet och är väsentligt att kunna för deras framtida motoriska färdigheter. Sammanfattningsvis visar studien att de intervjuade lärarna anser att det mest gynnsamma för elevernas lärande är en integrering av både analoga och digitala verktyg inom ramen för läs- och skrivundervisningen.

Studiens syfte är att jämföra hur elevers narrativa texter i årskurs 6 skiljer sig åt beroende på om de skrivs med hjälp av analoga skrivverktyg eller digitala skrivverktyg med ordbehandlingsprogram. Studien omfattar åtta elevtexter som analyserats utifrån aspekterna stavning, särskrivning samt felanvändning av versaler och gemener. En teoretisk utgångspunkt som studien utgått från är det sociokulturella perspektivets tankesätt om medierande redskap, där dessa redskap i vår studie är penna och tangentbord. Den andra teoretiska utgångspunkten är kognitivismen med fokus på kognitiva och sensomotoriska processers betydelse för elevers textskrivande. Resultatet visade att eleverna hade betydligt fler fel i sina analoga texter jämfört med de digitala gällande stavfel och felanvändning av versaler och gemener men däremot utmärkte sig resultatet för särskrivning eftersom inga skillnader blev framträdande oavsett vilket skrivverktyg som användes. Som förväntat presterade eleverna bättre i sina digitala texter där mycket går att koppla till det ordbehandlingsprogram som eleverna fick hjälp av. En annan viktig iakttagelse är att de analoga texterna innehöll oroväckande mycket fel vilket kan innebära att analoga texter skrivs allt mer sällan och att elever därför går miste om viktiga förmågor kopplat till de kognitiva och sensomotoriska processerna. Med andra ord visar resultatet att valet av medierande redskap har betydelse för elevernas skrivande.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T18:23:28Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Claudia L Passalacqua.pdf: 542023 bytes, checksum: d12f5515154be2bd94e524c3bbaa52b3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-05-04 / This paper investigates a writing tool, namely Self-Portrait, whose aim is to collect data on an individual´s psychic expression. It comprises a 35 question questionnaire, made up of open-ended directed and self directed questions. The order of the answers is random, and some questions may be answered many times while others may never be answered. This writing tool was used in a group of psychologically disturbed women, who had been referred to a state health center in the outskirts of São Paulo city. Most women belong to the low and low-middle classes, with very few years of schooling, but, in general, with working experience, in the 30-60 age bracket. They were referred to the state health center by psychiatrists and psychologists, due to chief complaints such as depression, stress, etc. The group was coordinated by the research-psychologist and by an occupational therapist. Initially, the treatment aimed to engage the group in manual tasks and provide them with some space in which they could air their problems. On presenting the questionnaire to the women, the research-psychologist read them the iinstructions, their questions, and explained the procedures as well the terms of agreement. The questionnaire was kept in the health center and apart from the subjects and the therapist, nobody else had access to them. Due to all the conditions of public service assiduity, punctuality, follow-up sessions, among others the use of the self-portrait was not constant in all the sessions and wasn´t equally used by all the women. Since the activities were decided on by the group and took place in the inicial phases of the group´s functioning, it was hard to maintain group cohesion, as some women answered the questionnaires in each session while others took longer to write. These differences were inevitable once all the women shared a common physical space. The self-potrait questions aimed at categorizing those women´s realities: routine, family and professional life, emotional, psychological and existencial aspects and world knowledge. Moreover, the written account of their life experiences served as an oulet for the free expresson of their reality The therapeutical aim of the self-portrait was to investigate the efficiency of writing as a mechanism to surface the underlying phychic information, despite the fact that this written account was produced by women of varying literacy levels. Writing differs from speech in that writing can be crystalized in time, once it can be registered permanently. Besides, writing entails a distinctive connection between conscious and uncounscious contents. It leads the individual into an introspective journey, allowing for the re-enactment of past experiences. By means of this exercise, processes and memories are brought to the consciosness mind and may be modified when experienced again. This study falls into the category of case study, once it focus on aspect´s of a specific woman´s life: someone who, upon joining the group, felt incredbly miserable and was, from the very begining, given special treatment by the research-psychologist. The same rules which applied for the self-portrait within the group were used in private consultations. Semantic networks, formed by words that were repeated along the text, were used for the analysis of the written accounts, following Jung's Model of Typology / Este trabalho investiga um instrumento de escrita, intitulado Auto-Retrato, destinado a coletar dados sobre a expressão psíquica do indivíduo. Trata-se de um questionário de trinta e cinco questões, abertas, dirigidas ou semi-dirigidas, no qual a ordem das respostas é livre, assim como o fato de que algumas questões podem vir a ser respondidas inúmeras vezes e outras, nunca serem respondidas. O instrumento foi utilizado num grupo de mulheres, encaminhadas, pela saúde mental, a um posto de saúde da periferia de São Paulo. As mulheres pertenciam a classes sócio-econômico-culturais baixa e média baixa, em sua maior parte, com poucos anos de escolaridade, mas, no, geral, com experiência de trabalho, na faixa etária de 30 a 60 anos. Chegaram ao posto de saúde via encaminhamentos de psiquiatras e psicólogos, com queixas de depressão, estresse, entre outras. O grupo era coordenado pela psicóloga-pesquisadora e por uma terapeuta ocupacional. Inicialmente, seu objetivo era realizar atividades manuais e paralelamente a elas criar um espaço para a fala e escuta das mulheres entre si e pelas terapeutas. Ao apresentar o questionário às mulheres, a psicóloga-pesquisadora leu a elas suas instruções, suas questões, explicou-lhes as formas de utilização, juntamente com o Termo de Consentimento Livre e Esclarecido.O questionário era mantido no posto de saúde e apenas cada mulher e as terapeutas tinham acesso a ele. Devido a todas as condições que envolvem um atendimento público - assiduidade, pontualidade, continuidade do atendimento, entre outras - o emprego do Auto-Retrato não ocorreu de modo constante em todas as sessões e nem foi igualmente usado por todas as mulheres. Como as atividades eram decididas pelo grupo e no início de seu funcionamento, foi difícil manter a unidade do grupo, com algumas mulheres respondendo-o em todas as sessões, até por se tratar de um espaço físico comum. As questões do Auto-Retrato tinham como objetivo caracterizar a realidade dessas mulheres: vivências cotidianas, vida familiar e profissional, aspectos emocionais, psicológicos e existenciais, conhecimento de mundo e visava ser um continente para a expressão dessa realidade por meio da escrita. .. O emprego do Auto-Retrato teve como objetivo psicoterapêutico investigar a eficácia da escrita para a manifestação de conteúdos psíquicos subjacentes, não importando a variável de a escrita ser realizada por mulheres com diferentes graus de letramento. A escrita tem natureza diferente da fala, fixando-se no tempo, sendo registrada de uma forma permanente, e evocando um compromisso diferente com conteúdos conscientes e inconscientes. Inicia um processo de interiorização no indivíduo, possibilitando uma volta aos conteúdos veiculados. Por meio de seu exercício, processos e memórias são trazidos à consciência e modificados quando revividos. Este trabalho se constituirá em um estudo de caso, na medida em que focará o Auto-Retrato de uma mulher em específico, quem, por ter chegado ao grupo sentindo-se especialmente mal, foi, desde o início, atendida paralelamente de modo individual pela psicóloga-pesquisadora. As mesmas regras estabelecidas para o uso do Auto-Retrato no grupo, foram usadas para sua aplicação na terapia individual. Para a análise do texto escrito do Auto-Retrato os modelos teóricos empregados foram as redes semânticas, formadas pelas palavras que se repetiam no texto escrito, e o referencial teórico de Jung, principalmente, no que se refere aos tipos psicológicos por ele propostos

This thesis aims to study the level and scale of literacy as it expanded in Viking towns during the 8th-12th century. In order to get an understanding of this spread, I have worked with two case-studies of Viking towns, as they were founded and prospered during and by the end of the Viking Age in Sweden; the town of Birka located in Björkö Island in Lake Mälaren, and the town of Sigtuna located in the province of Uppland, in central Sweden. Through the study of selected archaeological material, this paper aims to bring together scattered information and shed light on what we know about the level and spread of literacy in Viking society. The purpose of this endeavour, is to question not only the notion of an illiterate pagan society that the Viking Age Scandinavians are considered to have been, but also question both the methodology in which the scholarly archaeological community studies literacy, as well as the way literacy itself is defined in the study of the ancient world. The paper includes a bibliographic and a material-studying approach, as well as a section where digital archaeological research methods are used with Geographical Information Systems (GIS) software in order to illustrate the level and scale of literary expansion in Viking Age Sweden. / <p>The proceedings of the Thesis defence were undertaken in the form of a web meeting via Zoom, in accordance to the local restrictions due to the Covid-19 pandemic.</p>

I den digitala utveckling som sker inom skolans värld använder eleverna datorn i allt större utsträckning när de producerar texter. Som en del i att skapa en vetenskaplig grund för att förstå hur digitala verktyg kan påverka textskapande är syftet med denna studie att undersöka på vilket sätt det medierande redskapet för att producera text, i detta fall tangentbord, skärm och ordbehandlingsprogram eller papper och penna, förändrar texters transitivitet och hur idéationella betydelser realiseras i de olika texttyperna. Studien ämnar även undersöka hur agentiviteten i texter förändras beroende på medierande redskap och vilka skillnader som det går att identifiera i nyttjandet av olika pronomen i agentiva processer. Tjugo texter skrivna av elever i årskurs 4 och 5 analyserades med utgångspunkt i systemisk funktionell textanalys och analysmetoderna transitivitetsanalys och ergativitetsanalys. Studiens resultat är inkonklusiva och ingen slutsats kan dras om skrivverktygens påverkan på texternas transitivitet eller agentivitet. Studien visar hur uppgiftbeskrivningar för elevers skolskrivande är mer avgörande för hur innehållet konstrueras än om de skriver för hand eller på datorn och bidrar med kunskap för vidare forskning. / In today’s developing digital era, students in school rely to an increasing extent when producing texts. As part of an effort to contribute to creating a scientific basis in regard to understanding how digital tools affects how text is constructed, this study aims to explore in which way the mediating tool for text production, in this case keyboard, screen, and word processing software versus paper and pen, changes the transitivity in texts and how ideational meaning is realised. Additionally, the study investigates how the ergativity in texts change depending on mediating tool and what differences in the use of pronouns can be identified in ergativ processes. Twenty texts written by fourth and fifth grade students are analysed based on Systemic-Functional text analysis and the analysis methods of transitivity analysis and ergativity analysis. The study’s results are inconclusive, providing no clear conclusions on the impact of writing tools on the transitivity or agency of texts. However, the study reveals that task descriptions for students' writing are more critical in shaping content than the choice between handwriting or typing, contributing valuable insights for further research.