The purpose with my essay was to investigate how genre pedagogy works in a practical manor? I wanted to reach a deeper understanding for the genre pedagogy and to find out if it fits all students. To investigate this issue I have asked following questions:What is genre pedagogy?How do teachers work with different genres in the genre pedagogy?For whom is the genre pedagogy?Is the critic right that Frøydis Hertzberg is proposing about the genre pedagogy formalism? I have been using qualitative methods, to gather my empirical data. I have been using two unstructured interviews and one unsystematically observation, in a third grade class in a school south of Stockholm, with 30% second language students. I have also been watching several episodes about genre pedagogy at Utbildningsradions website and analyzed them. I have among others been using Gibbon’s book Scaffolding Language scaffolding Learning and Johansson Sandell Ring’s book (Let the language carry) I have also been using reports from the Swedish school ministry. In this way I have gathered interesting facts about how teachers educate in practice and how the interaction is. Genre pedagogy is about how the teacher together with the students finds subject knowledge and the text structure by speaking about the language with a so called Meta language and practical activities. The teacher part is to clarify the functional grammar and to give the tools so that the student will progress in his/ her writing skills and subject knowledge. The tutoring is presented so that the teachers part is to be supportive in the beginning when the students knowledge is being built up to gradually, when the student has the knowledge, to let the student do the task more and more by it self. There are critics aimed against the genre pedagogy that the student’s creativity and personal writing disappears. By my observation and analyses of the material from Utbildningsradions website, (UR.se) I have gotten a result that shows that the student text is written in the same structure as the template text, but there is space for their own imagination. One of the conclusions is that genre pedagogy fits most students, if the education is flexible and sometimes individualized.

This case study examined both the implications of using genre pedagogy on students’ writing performance in IELTS-like tests as well as students’ perceptions of the genre method in the context of IELTS preparation course. The data were writing samples and the interviews with the students as well as the instructor’s teaching daily field notes. The implications and students’ perceptions of genre method were found relating to a variety of factors, such as students’ prior experience in IELTS preparation course. This study also proposed some future research directions such as the integration of IELTS preparation into the ESL courses. / Graduate

This study aims to study the relation between genre pedagogy and motivation to read for pu- pils in the ages of six-nine. My data contains the interviews that was performed. I experienced some difficulties in the search for respondents, therefore the study only has four respondents. The respondents are active teachers, who teach pupils in the ages of six-nine and have a gen- rebased pedagogy in their class. The study is a qualitative study, that are influenced by her- meneutics and constructionism, which requires interpretation and reflection. According to my research the genre pedagogy has great significance to six-nine year olds’ motivation to read. The result show that, there is several aspects that affects pupils’ love for reading. How- ever, genre pedagogy can actually provide students understanding to what they read, which can increase the motivation to read. A critical approach is essential when you analyse a peda- gogical method, therefore both negative and positive effects of genre pedagogy are mentioned in the study.

With this paper the aim is to find out whether there are any differences in how five students from the north part of Africa structures their tales in comparison with the Nordic tale "The emperor‟s new clothes". The purpose is to look at how the genre pedagogy can be said to relate to these differences. What happens to the "deviant" structures? Based on literature and research on the subject, I have concluded that there are certain patterns of how a tale "should" be structured based on Western standards. These text structures are seen as typical for the genre and are therefore, in accordance with the subject plans, reproduced in the classroom. In the analysis of the student´s texts there has been shown and a rather large variation in how the tales are structured.

The purpose of this study is to examine how the teaching of non-fiction texts looks like in grade 3 in three different classes and how the students in these classes are being prepared for the subsample that tests the ability to write a non-fiction text in the national test in Swedish and Swedish as a second language. I have, based on the purpose, issued three question that form the basis of this study. They are: What tasks does the students in these classes implement in Swedish lessons dealing with non-fiction? What models are used in Swedish teaching in these three classes dealing with non-fiction? How are the students being prepared for the subsample that tests the ability to write a non-fiction text in the national test in Swedish and Swedish as a second language? The methods used to carry out this study are observation and interview. The purpose of using these methods are to gain knowledge and to be able to explain a social phenomenon, in this case how the teaching of non-fiction texts looks like in grade 3. The theoretical concepts that are relevant for the implementation of this study are the writing discourses of Genre and Process. The result is that all of the teachers that featured in this study prepared their student for the national test in Swedish by implementing similar tasks in their teaching, which the students face in the national test. The students read non-fiction texts, selected relevant words from the texts and wrote their own non-fiction text during the lessons I observed. I detected two separate models used in the teaching, which are Genre pedagogy and Process writing. None of the teachers in this study used the models fully, but used some parts of them in their teaching.

The study’s purpose is to examine teachers’ perceptions of genre pedagogy and mentor texts toteach writing in upper-secondary school. Previously many English teachers in Sweden usedprocess pedagogy to teach writing, an approach that encourages students to create drafts andrevise their texts accordingly. The study finds that even though this approach is still active inupper-secondary schools in Sweden, teachers feel that providing time for revisions isimpossible. Further, the study finds that teachers have started to provide their students withmodel texts that can give students a hands-on model for writing their own texts. The use ofmodel texts in genre pedagogy and mentor texts approach will be examined in this study. Thestudy has been conducted using interviews with teachers in upper-secondary schools in Sweden.The interviews were semi-structured and constructed using themes to simplify the analysis ofthe results. The results from the study show that the interviewed teachers of upper-secondaryschools in Sweden believe that students benefit from being provided with models in for writing.The teachers also believe that the students are benefited from seeing the structure of the modeltext, which can encourage students to structure their own writing similarly. The teachersinterviewed in the study perceive genre pedagogy and mentor texts approach to supportstudents’ development as successful communicators in the English written language.

The purpose of this study is to investigate how four teachers in grades 4-6 work with genre pedagogy in the Swedish subject. In this study the focus will be on these two issues: How do the teachers work with text types in the Swedish subject? How do the teachers describe genre pedagogy? I have used the two different methods which are interviews and observations in order to conduct the survey. I have also used two different theories that are related to the genre pedagogy in this study, these theories are the socio-cultural perspective and the circle model. These theories have been used to analyze the empirical material in this study. The result of this study shows that all four teachers work with the four different types of texts which are fact text, story, fabel and instruction in teaching in the Swedish subject. Furthermore all the teachers work in the same way with these different text types in the teaching, this by working with the text types based on the four different phases that are in the circle model in the teaching. These different steps consist of knowledge acquisition of a subject, the study of the text type with focus on the purpose, structure and linguistic features of the text type, the class writing its own text within the chosen text type,  which is followed by the students being allowed to write their own text within the chosen text type. This was reflected in the interviews and two of the observations. All teachers shared the same view that genre pedagogy is about a number of different genres. The texts that are written within a genre should consist of a specific structure, and language, depending on the purpose, situation and recipients of the texts, according to the teachers. This was evident in the interviews in this study.

Studien belyser fem svensklärares uppfattningar om textskapande i den egna skrivundervisningen i årskurs 4-6. Vidare uppmärksammas även lärarnas uppfattningar angående stöttning av elever i skrivsvårigheter.  För att främja utvecklingen av elevers textskpande behöver lärare göra medvetna val i sin skrivundervisning. Lärare behöver dessutom vara medvetna om vilken typ av stöttning olika elever är i behov av. Den sociokulturella teorin utgör teoretisk ansats i studien. Studien är kvalitativ med en fenomenografisk ansats och metod för datainsamling är semistrukturerade intervjuer. Urvalet består av fem svensklärare i årskurs 4-6. Resultatet visar att lärare använder sig av olika undervisningsstrategier för att främja elevers textskapande. Flera av de identifierade undervisningsstrategierna   känns igen ifrån tidigare forskning om skrivutveckling. Resultatet visar dessutom att lärare använder sig av genrepedagogik för att öka elevers förståelse för olika texttyper. Respondenterna stöttar elever i skrivsvårigheter genom digitala hjälpmedel, återkoppling och genom att höja deras motivation. En dragen slutsats av studien är att respondenterna är väl medvetna om sin skrivundervisning och gör medvetna val för att möjliggöra lärande. Ytterligare en dragen slutsats är att lärare använder sig av olika undervisningsstrategier även för elever som inte är i skrivsvårigheter. Det är ibland svårt att skilja på vilka strategier som används till alla och vilka som används specifikt till elever i skrivsvårigheter. / This study illustrates perceptions about writing lessons and text creation of five teachers in the Swedish subject. Further, the essay illustrates teachers’ perceptions about writing difficulties and students in writing difficulties. To present students the opportunity to develop their writing skills, teachers need to make conscious choices before their writing lessons. Further, teachers need to be aware of how they can adjust their support for every student needs. Simple View of Writing and The Sociocultural Theory is two theories that is recurrent the whole essay. The term scaffolding has also a central part of this essay. A qualitative study with a phenomenological approach has been made. The material has been collected with help of semi-structured interviews with five teachers of the Swedish subject in grade 4-6. The result shows that teachers use several different teaching strategies to facilitate students text creation. Several of the identified teaching strategies can be recognized in earlier research concerning writing development. Furthermore, the result illuminates the usage of genre pedagogy as a means to increase the students understanding of different types of texts. The result shows that the respondents support students with usage of digital aid, feedback and through increase their motivation.  A conclusion that can be drawn is that the respondents are aware of their writing lessons and make conscious choices to enable learning. Another conclusion that can be drawn is that the teachers use different teaching strategies for students without writing difficulties as well. One may find it difficult to separate the strategies used for the class in general from the ones used specifically for students with writing difficulties.

This essay explores genre pedagogy with a main focus on an analysis of teaching material used in upper secondary school in the B-course in English. The aim of the analysis is to determine if the writing exercises in the books, which are not specifically designed for genre pedagogy, can be used genre pedagogically as they are presented in the books. The result shows that they are not well suited for this; two of the books are poorly designed for genrepedagogy and they do not show any thoughts or links to genre pedagogy while the other two show some links to genre pedagogy. This essay also explores the field of genre pedagogy. This exploration shows that genre pedagogy fans out and is not unitary, and especially not in its definition of genre.

Enligt läroplanen ska undervisningen leda till att eleverna kan uttrycka sig i olika former av texter. De texttyper som förespråkas i årskurs 1–3 är faktatext och berättande text. Syftet med studien är att undersöka hur lärare arbetar med skrivundervisning genom genrepedagogiska arbetssätt i årskurs två. Föreliggande studie utgår från ett sociokulturellt perspektiv. I studien har en metodkombination av observationer och intervjuer använts för att samla in empiri om detta undersökningsområde. Den insamlade empirin har sedan analyserats utifrån cirkelmodellen och en modell för stöttning och utmaning. Studiens resultat har visat att genrepedagogisk undervisning om olika texttyper med fördel bör påbörjas redan under skolans tidigare år. Vidare har studien visat att en framgångsrik undervisning kräver en väl övervägd balans mellan kognitiv utmaning och stöttning från omgivningen. Slutligen konstateras att skrivundervisning genom genrepedagogiska arbetssätt bidrar till att eleverna skriver mer strukturerade och genomtänkta texter. Det genrepedagogiska arbetsättet är utvecklande för alla elever, oavsett kunskapsnivå. / According to the curriculum, teaching is supposed to have the result that pupils can express themselves in different forms of texts. The types of texts recommended for grades 1–3 are factual and narrative texts. The aim of the study is to investigate how teachers work with the teaching of writing through genre-pedagogical methods in grade two. The present study proceeds from a sociocultural perspective. It combines the methods of observations and interviews to collect empirical data in this field of study. The data was then analysed using the circle model and a model for support and challenge. The results of the study show that genre-pedagogical teaching about different types of texts benefit from starting in the earlier years of school. The study further showed that successful teaching requires a well-considered balance between cognitive challenge and support from surrounding people. Finally, it is observed that the teaching of writing through genre-pedagogical methods helps pupils to write more structured and well thought-out texts. The genre-pedagogical method helps all pupils in their development, regardless of the level of their knowledge.