This paper focus on the question whether second language pupils in primary schools have an advantage or a disadvantage when being introduced to English as a school language, while their mother tongue and Swedish as a second language are still being developed. The aim is to find potential benefits or drawbacks that may be inherent in multilingual learning, and examine if various methods and approaches can be the basis for the actuation of pupils' performance in the subject. Research shows varying perspectives on what is considered best for the pupils. Therefore, a number of interviews have been conducted to find out what experienced teachers and students think about the topic. The study shows that it is advantageous to introduce English at primary school, but certain conditions need to be fulfilled. It also shows that a good introduction to the subject is dependent on a number of different methods and procedures. Among other things, the teaching language proved to be important for how the subject is perceived by the students, and how you choose to teach and what parts you want to accomplish.

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Diss. Stockholm : Stockholms universitet, 2007.

Diss. Stockholm : Stockholms universitet, 2008.

Diss. Karlstad : Karlstads universitet, 2008.

This study investigates which factors Swedish upper secondary students believe affect their learning and their results the most in the subject English. Students’ beliefs of what could benefit their learning were also investigated. Methods used in the study include focus groups and surveys. Results show that English outside of school, motivation, interest, previous experience, expectations, peer influence, effort, instructional context and the teacher are some of the factors that the participating students believe affect them the most. Regarding their test results most students attribute both positive and negative test results to their own effort. In the investigation it was also found that most students could reflect on their own learning and possible improvements in the classroom. Among the students there were three parts of the subject that most students would like to see improved: the interaction, the teacher and the type of tasks and exercises they work with.

Föreliggande studie är en systematisk litteraturstudie. Problemområdet som ligger till grund för studien beskrivs med att dagens engelskundervisning till stor del innefattar innehåll som inte är bundet till någon kontext elever kan relatera till. Om lärare inte anpassar undervisningen efter elevers erfarenheter och intresse, eller inte reflekterar över syftet med innehållet i undervisningen kan en problematik uppstå. Problematiken kan innebära att elever kan få svårigheter att relatera till undervisningen. Detta kan leda till brist på intresse och förståelsen för språket kan minska. Syftet med studien var att kartlägga kontextens betydelse i ämnet engelska främst i årskurs 4-6, men även närliggande årskurser. Majoriteten av den forskning som studien omfattar talar för ett positivt utfall av att arbeta med ett kontextbundet innehåll i engelskundervisning, främst om fördelar med att arbeta kontextbundet vid inlärning av nya ord. När det kommer till undervisning i engelska i sin helhet, talar forskningen om vikten av att utgå från elevers intresse och erfarenheter. Det är värt att forska ytterligare kring området, då forskning saknas kring hur elever kan känna sig trygga i användningen av språket som resultat av en kontextbunden undervisning.

<p>Abstract</p><p>This essay looks at Robert Altman’s film <em>Short Cuts</em> and Raymond Carver’s short stories and poem on which the film is based. The stories are not connected to one another in their original form of publication. In the film, Altman has linked and connected them through various devices. It is argued that he has transferred to film his own individualised interpretation of Carver’s stories, where the “empty space” is filled and the stories connected. Thus Altman’s contribution comprises not simply the transposition of Carver’s stories to an audiovisual medium, but rather his visualization of those stories and what lies beyond the text. Robert Altman compresses as well as expands the stories and alters them to fit in with one another. Several strategies are used for linking the stories. In the film, he lets characters cross over between storylines and transposes them to suburban Los Angeles to create a common space. He also uses places taken from the short stories as intersections where the paths of characters from different stories cross. Carver’s characters are altered both in order to link the stories but also to foreground the medium in which they are now presented. The changes undertaken for linking purposes are the creation of family ties between characters from different stories and changing the occupations of several characters. The latter also serves the function of foregrounding visual and auditory media. Apart from this linking, several themes are prominent in the adapted Carver stories and seem to be what makes the connections between them possible. The thematic links between the stories connect or contrast them and are generally transferred to the adaptation. It is concluded that this essay tries to demonstrate that <em>Short Cuts</em> departs considerably from the adapted texts while at the same time staying fairly close to their themes. However, further analysis of the film in conjunction with a more substantial analysis of Altman’s other works is required to make conclusions as to the exact extent of Altman’s “authorship.”</p>

<p>Immanence and Representation in W. H. Hudson’s <em>Green Mansions</em></p><p>Alice Sundman</p><p> </p><p>Abstract</p><p> </p><p>The study investigates the tension between immanence and transcendence in W. H. Hudson’s novel <em>Green Mansions</em>. The method in use is Edmund Husserl’s phenomenological method of bracketing that which is transcendent to the field of study (<em>epoché</em>). It is argued that there is a fundamental tension in the novel between presentation (unmodified acts of consciousness) and representation (modified acts of consciousness). The conclusion drawn from the studied evidence is that <em>Green Mansions</em> favours intimacy over remoteness, immediacy over mediation, presence over rupture, and wholeness over divisiveness. The study shows that the hero is caught in a contradiction between a culture based on representivity (a mania for picture-thinking, sign-thinking, and relation-thinking) and an immediacy of life embodied in the heroine as a pure presentation lacking any significant traces of gaps, divisions, or borders. Personified by the heroine, immanence constitutes a silent yet persisting resistance to a world-view based on representivity.</p>

<p>Syftet<strong> </strong>med denna uppsats är att granska det engelska läromedlet <em>Wings</em> ur ett genusperspektiv. En innehållsanalys har gjorts av två böcker ur läromedelsserien <em>Wings</em>; Base book och Activity book i årskurs 7, detta genom att använda en checklista där bland annat antalet kvinnor respektive män som förekommer i texterna i de båda böckerna har räknats. Resultatet visar att männen statistiskt sett dominerar i texterna och att det också finns en snedfördelning vad gäller variationen av egenskaper, yrken och fritidsintressen mellan kvinnor och män. Slutsatsen som nåtts är att författarna till läromedlet <em>Wings åk 7</em> inte aktivt har arbetat för att skapa ett jämställt läromedel, vilket märks tydligt bland annat på fördelningen av huvudrollsinnehavare i texterna i Activity book.</p>