Digitaliseringen av grundskolorna öppnar för breda multimodala möjligheter. Tidigare forskning visar inte hur verksamma svensklärare hanterar multimodala texter i undervisningen för elever i årskurs 4–6. Denna studie berör hur lärare uppfattar multimodala och berättande texter och hur dessa kan vara skrivutvecklande för elever i årskurs 4–6. För att uppfylla syftet med denna studie valdes tematisk analys som metod. Det finns också ett fokus på aktiva svensklärares uppfattningar om att arbeta med multimodala och berättande texter i klassrummet. Resultatet visar att lärarnas uppfattningar är att när man skapar multimodala och berättande texter måste en interaktion ske. Genom interaktion i klassrummet kommer eleverna att utveckla skrivfärdigheter. Slutsatser som presenteras är att multimodala texter ofta erbjuds via interaktiva medier som YouTube.com. Berättande texter måste produceras med förutbestämd struktur för att kunna bedömas och oavsett vilka texter elever skapar, måste det göras i sammanhang där interaktion ges utrymme. Klassrumsdialogen främjar en berättarglädje. / Primary schools digitalization makes broad multimodal opportunities. Previous research does not illustrate how active teachers who teach the subject Swedish handle multimodal texts in teaching for pupils in grades 4–6. This study illuminates how teachers perceive multimodal and narrative texts and how these texts can develop pupils writing skills in grades 4–6. To fulfill the purpose of this study thematic analysis was chosen as the method. There is also a focus on the conceptions of teachers concerning working with multimodal and narrative texts in the classroom. The result shows that the teachers' conceptions are that when creating multimodal and narrative texts, an interaction needs to happen. Through interaction in the classroom, pupils will develop writing skills. Conclusions presented are that multimodal texts are often offered through interactive media such as YouTube.com. Narrative texts must be produced with predetermined structure to be assessable and regardless of what texts pupils create, it must be done in contexts where interaction is given space. Classroom dialogue promotes pupils to feel a joy in to tell narrative stories.

The aim of this study is to examine and identify the different ways in which secondary and upper secondary school teachers perceive the use of fiction to teach English as well as their beliefs about the outcome or benefits of doing so. Five secondary and upper secondary school teachers in Sweden who teach English as a foreign language were interviewed about how they use fiction to teach English. A phenomenographic cross-case analysis was used to analyse the data. The teachers’responses were categorized and labelled into two main themes, that is, teaching methods and benefits of using fiction to teach English. However, the teachers’ descriptions about the definition and medium of expressing fiction was first established. The data from the theme ‘teaching methods’ were later sorted, categorized, and labelled into six instructional strategies. The teaching strategies included: selecting authentic learning material for students; building knowledge about themes in the fictional works; using classroom discussions to support students' learning; encouraging students to use their previous knowledge and learning experiences to understand the content of the fictional works; using audio-visual aids to enhance students' understanding of themes in the fictional works; and designing tasks that reinforce learning. These strategies were common amongst all five teachers. However, there were some subtle differences in the teaching methods, caused by factors such as the students’ mastery of the English language, the English course(s) the teachers were teaching and the fictional material they were using to teach English. / Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka och identifiera de olika sätt på vilka högstadielärare och gymnasielärare uppfattar användningen av fiktion för att undervisa engelska samt deras uppfattning om fördelarna med att göra det. För att få insikter om detta intervjuades fem lärare som undervisar engelska som främmande språk på högstadiet och gymnasiet i Sverige. En fenomenografisk tvärfallsanalys användes som metod för dataanalys och lärarnas beskrivningar av vad fiktion betyder samt på vilket sätt den kan uttryckas framställdes. Lärarnas svar kategoriserades i två huvudteman och märktes som: undervisningsmetoder och fördelarna att undervisa engelska genom fiktion. Data från temat ’undervisningsmetoder’ sorterades, kategoriserades och delades in i sex undervisningsstrategier. Undervisningsstrategierna innefattar: att välja autentiskt undervisningsmaterial; att bygga upp kunskap om teman i de fiktiva verken; att använda klassrumsdiskussioner för att stödja elevernas lärande; uppmuntra eleverna att använda sina tidigare kunskaper och erfarenheter av lärande; använda audiovisuella hjälpmedel för att förbättra elevernas förståelse av teman i de fiktiva verken; utforma uppgifter som förstärker lärande. Dessa strategier var gemensammabland de fem lärarna. Det fanns dock några små skillnader i undervisningsmetoderna som orsakades av elevernas behärskning av det engelska språket, de engelska kurserna som lärarna undervisade i och de fiktiva materialen som de använde för att undervisa engelska.

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Выступления лидеров, как типичный политический документ, являясь важной частью политического перевода, отражающего политические тенденции конкретной страны, играют важную роль в мировой коммуникации и изучении международной политики. Особенно в условиях углубления российско-китайского сотрудничества изучение речей китайских лидеров помогает воочию понять динамику китайской политики. Кроме того, ее изучение способствует совершенствованию навыков перевода с китайского языка на русский и развитию сотрудничества между двумя сторонами в более высоких областях. Актуальность исследования обусловлена новым методом исследования переводов политических текстов путем сравнения переведенных текстов выступлений лидеров. В первой главе заложена теоретическая основа исследования: вводятся отношения между Китаем и Россией, обсуждается понятие «перевод», исследуются особенности перевода политических текстов и определяются основные трудности перевода политических текстов. Рассмотрено понятие китайской «политической культуры», кратко описана деятельность китайских политических лидеров, представлен авторский подход к стилям политической речи крупных китайских лидеров. Вторая глава посвящена практическим аспектам перевода: посвящена сравнительному тексту оригинала и перевода Доклада Си Цзиньпина на XIX-м Всекитайском съезде КПК., в докладе выделяются языковые единицы, особенно труднопереводимые на русский язык (четырехсимвольные слова, морфемы, аббревиатуры, пословицы и цитаты); составление анкет для исследования целевой аудитории, после детального анализа определить понимание перевода предложений в трудных языковых единицах; предложить перевод политических речей китайских политиков с китайского на русский. / Speeches of leaders, as a typical political document, being an important part of political translation, reflecting the political trends of a particular country, play an important role in world communication and the study of international politics. Especially in the context of deepening Russian-Chinese cooperation, studying the speeches of Chinese leaders helps to understand the dynamics of Chinese politics with one's own eyes. In addition, its study contributes to the improvement of Chinese-Russian translation skills and the development of cooperation between the two parties in higher fields. The relevance of the study is due to a new method for studying the translations of political texts by comparing the translated texts of the leaders' speeches. The first chapter lays the theoretical basis of the study: relations between China and Russia are introduced, the concept of "translation" is discussed, the features of the translation of political texts are studied, and the main difficulties in the translation of political texts are identified. The concept of Chinese "political culture" is considered, the activities of Chinese political leaders are briefly described, and the author's approach to the styles of political speech of major Chinese leaders is presented. The second chapter is devoted to the practical aspects of translation: it is devoted to the comparative text of the original and translation of Xi Jinping's Report at the 19th National Congress of the CPC. The report highlights language units that are especially difficult to translate into Russian (four-character words, morphemes, abbreviations, proverbs and quotations); compiling questionnaires for researching the target audience, after a detailed analysis, determine the understanding of the translation of sentences in difficult language units; offer translation of political speeches of Chinese politicians from Chinese into Russian.

By using the technique of photogrammetry for the 3D visualization of ancient Egyptian coffins decorated with magical texts and iconography, this project aims at building up a new digital platform for an in-depth study of the ancient Egyptian funerary culture and its media. It has started in August 2015 through the support of a Mellon Fellowship for the Digital Humanities at UC Berkeley and up until now it has focused on ancient Egyptian coffins kept at the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology of UC Berkeley. The main outcome will be a digital platform that allows to display a coffin in 3D and where users will be able to pan, rotate, and zoom in on the coffin, clicking on areas of text to highlight them and view an annotated translation together with other metadata (transcription of the hieroglyphic text, bibliography, textual variants, museological data, provenance, etc.)

Teachers in the 21st century are confronted with students who are mass consumers of visual texts via social apps on smart devices, media on television, and information in textbooks. Teaching students to analyze and question visual texts may help them construct meaning and critique what they see. Yet, very little is known about teachers’ pedagogical decisions when planning and teaching with visual texts. This study attempted to fill that gap. The purpose of this study was to explore how eighth grade history teachers utilize historical visual texts in their classrooms. Three eighth grade history teachers participated in this study. Data collection consisted of semi-structured interviews, teacher analyses of visual texts, video recorded lessons, and teacher reflections. Data obtained in this study addressed the following questions: How do teachers analyze a historical visual text for use in the classroom? What previous experiences do teachers utilize when planning to teach with a historical visual text? What do teachers’ reflections of a video recorded lesson reveal about the teachers’ instructional experiences with historical visual texts? What do video analyses of teachers utilizing historical visual texts reveal about teachers’ historical thinking and visual literacy pedagogical decisions? The results of this study indicated that the participants lack formal pedagogical content knowledge and prior experiences in teaching with historical visual texts. Yet, the participants reported that their lessons in this study were engaging and meaningful for students. Findings from this study suggest that historical visual texts can be effective in the teaching and learning of history.

Contemporary north-west Bangladesh is the scene of a religious contest between the self-described 'Hanafis‘, who include various expressions of Islamic faith and practice, and Salafi reformist groups known as Ahl-i-Hadith. Occasionally labelled 'Wahhabis‘ due to their affinity with the doctrine from Arabia, the Ahl-i-Hadith actively seek to purify local Islam of all practices which they consider to be bidaʿ. Local Hanafi Muslims, who form a majority, are resistant to these efforts at total religious reform. This thesis investigates the contemporary discourse taking place between these two communities in Rajshahi, Bangladesh, and between these groups and their authoritative Islamic texts. The case study used to focus on inter-group debates is the contested issue of whether or not to perform rituals meant to assist the dead during al-barzakh – the conscious waiting period in the grave believed to last from death until the day of resurrection. Especially during a soul‘s first forty days in al-barzakh, the Hanafi community observes rituals intended to reduce the torment of the grave and send soʾab, or merit, to the account of the deceased. Participant observation at numerous milad, chollisha and khotom ceremonies for the dead, as well as interviews with local ʿulamaʾ and other informants highlight the progress of Ahl-i-Hadith reform efforts, but also the way in which Hanafi leaders defend and interpret their 'unorthodox‘ practices using authoritative Sunni hadith and Qurʾanic passages. Additional Islamic texts which are locally influential are examined. Special voice is given to "what Muslims say" in an attempt to let the words and actions of those involved in the debates direct the research agenda as they interpret and defend their respective positions. This thesis provides other researchers with a field-based account of contemporary Islamic belief and practice in Bangladesh – an understudied Islamic context containing over 150 million people. Dozens of quotations from ʿulamaʾ are reproduced in the original Bengali and in English. Additionally, this study complicates Islamic fundamentalist and Western scholarly conceptions of 'popular Islam‘ and 'syncretism‘ by showing that Hanafi ʿulamaʾ in Rajshahi explain their (contested) beliefs and activities in Islamic terms, using universally recognised Sunni sources of authority, especially the hadith literature.

This thesis examines three manuscripts which demonstrate negative attitudes towards the Latin translation of the fourteenth-century Old French mystical work The Mirror of Simple Souls, written by Marguerite Porete. Marguerite was burned at the stake for heresy in Paris in 1310, and her Mirror was also condemned and meant to be destroyed. The Mirror survived inquisitorial efforts to exterminate it, was translated into Italian, Middle English, and Latin, and became accepted and valued by many religious circles in the later fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries. Examination of the Latin manuscripts, however, demonstrates that there was also a continuing trend of opposition towards and condemnation of the Mirror, even after its original Parisian condemnation was forgotten. This level of opposition is not seen in the Mirror's other vernacular circulations, making the Latin tradition unique in the amount of censure it received. This demonstrates a multi-faceted tradition in the Mirror's circulation, showing that the Mirror, rather than entering definitively into either the realm of orthodoxy or heresy, instead had a place in both, occupying a grey area between the two. This thesis provides new and detailed information on manuscripts which have never been studied in their own right by Mirror scholars, and examines these codices' implications both for the circulation of the Latin tradition and for the history of the Mirror's post-condemnation circulation as a whole.

I föreliggande examensarbete har fem historielärares uppfattningar kring elevers läsförståelse, läsande av historiska texter, dess påverkan av undervisningen och ämnet undersökts. Syftet med examensarbetet är att belysa sambandet mellan elevers läsförståelse och deras utvecklande av historiemedvetande. En kvalitativ metod med semistrukturerade intervjuer har använts för att generera data, som har genomgått en analys med metoden grounded theory. För att besvara examensarbetets syfte har arbetet två forskningsfrågor, nämligen hur historielärare arbetar med elevers läsande av historiska texter samt hur historielärarna upplever att elevernas svårigheter med textläsningen påverkar historieundervisningen. Historielärarna har ett antal strategier som de använde sig av när eleverna skulle läsa historiska texter i historieundervisningen. Strategierna kan kategoriseras som begrepp och elevers ordförråd, högläsning, diskussion, förkunskap och att anpassa och tydliggöra för eleverna. Historielärarna upplevde att elevers svårigheter med textläsningen påverkar historieundervisningen, vilket har genererat att lärare undviker och minskar omfånget text och att det finns ett behov av strategier när historiska texter ska läsas. Resultatet visade utifrån undersökningen, dess teoretiska ramverk och forskningsläge, att historiska texter kan främja för elevers utvecklande av historiemedvetande, men på grund av deras bristande läsförståelse behöver de få stöd av strategier. Strategierna som lärarna använde sig av är betydelsefulla för elevers läsförståelse, läsande av historiska texter och utvecklande av historiemedvetande. Detta resultat har även kunnat stärkas med vetenskaplig forskning som berör historiemedvetande och läsförståelse. / Five history teachers’ perceptions of students reading comprehension, reading of historical texts, the influence of education and the subject has been examined in this article. The purpose of this study is to elucidate the relationship between students' reading comprehension and their development of historical consciousness. A qualitative method of semi-structured interviews was used to generate data that has undergone analysis method grounded theory. To answer the article purpose this article has two research questions, namely how history teachers work with students reading of historical texts and how the history teachers feel that students' difficulties with the text reading affects the teaching of history. History teachers have a number of strategies that they use when students would read historical texts in history teaching. The strategies can be categorized as concept and students' vocabulary, reading aloud, discussion, qualifications, and to adapt and make clear to the students. History teachers felt that students' difficulties with the text reading affects the teaching of history, which has generated that the teacher avoids and reduces the scope of the text and there for there is a need of strategies when historical texts are to be read. The results showed on the basis of the study, its theoretical framework and research location, the historical texts can promote the students' development of historical consciousness, but because out of their lack of reading skills they need to get the support of strategies. The strategies that the teachers made use of is important for students' reading comprehension, reading of historical texts and development of historical consciousness. This result has also been strengthened with scientific research relating to historical awareness and reading comprehension.