<p>The aim of this paper is to examine which attitudes and experiences teachers have around <em>the wide text concept</em>, which is found in the course plan for the Swedish subject, and to find out which function films have in their teaching. The starting point of the paper’s theoretical part is the Swedish subject’s course plans and current research concerning the wide text concept and film in teaching. In order to achieve the formulated aim, qualitative interviews have been performed with three Swedish teachers active in the later years of compulsory-school.</p><p>The result shows that there are divided opinions of the actual meaning of the concept. However the three teachers agree that film has something to enrich the teaching of the Swedish language and they are for most part positive to using film in their teaching. There are certain differences as to how film is practically used in teaching by the three interviewed teachers, but film is used largely in three ways as also the researcher Christina Olin-Scheller has concluded: <em>as illustration, as complement </em>and <em>as comparison. </em>The three interviewed teachers also mean that the students, for most parts, are positive to using film as a teaching method and that lessons using film function satisfactory.</p>

The purpose of this essay has been to investigate the research and national initiatives regarding film and Cineliteracy in the Swedish curriculum. The results show that, after all research, national initiatives and the continual clarification from the Swedish National Agency for Education concerning film's place in the Swedish subject, the vision of students cineliteracy not at all obtain an obvious place in the curriculum. The research points out the main causes behind this result to be teachers' lack of expertise and the fact that the formal education for future teachers in the subject still upholds traditional views on the subject of Swedish. The initiative presented in this essay also show lack of continuity, lack of adequate professional development opportunities for teachers and lack of practical guidance manuals to help teachers to develop and educate their pupils in line with current research and visions. / Syftet med arbetet har varit att undersöka den svenska forskningen och satsningarna kring film och cinelitteracitet i svenskämnet med utgångspunkt i kursplanen för svenska på gymnasiet. Resultaten visar att trots all forskning, nationella satsningar och skolverkets ständiga förtydligande av filmens position i svenskämnet, är visionerna om elevernas cinelitteracitet inte alls självklart i svenskämnet. Forskningen visar att det är lärarnas bristande kompetens på området och lärarutbildningens fortsatt traditionella syn på svenskämnet som är de största orsakerna bakom detta resultat. Satsningarna som presenteras i detta arbete, visar även brist på kontinuitet och skapande av tillräckliga kompetensutvecklingsmöjligheter och handfasta vägledande handböcker för att underlätta att svensklärarna kommer i takt med forskningen inom medie- och filmdidaktik.

The aim of this paper is to examine which attitudes and experiences teachers have around the wide text concept, which is found in the course plan for the Swedish subject, and to find out which function films have in their teaching. The starting point of the paper’s theoretical part is the Swedish subject’s course plans and current research concerning the wide text concept and film in teaching. In order to achieve the formulated aim, qualitative interviews have been performed with three Swedish teachers active in the later years of compulsory-school. The result shows that there are divided opinions of the actual meaning of the concept. However the three teachers agree that film has something to enrich the teaching of the Swedish language and they are for most part positive to using film in their teaching. There are certain differences as to how film is practically used in teaching by the three interviewed teachers, but film is used largely in three ways as also the researcher Christina Olin-Scheller has concluded: as illustration, as complement and as comparison. The three interviewed teachers also mean that the students, for most parts, are positive to using film as a teaching method and that lessons using film function satisfactory.