The purpose of this study is to get an insight into how fiction tutoring in Swedish can be practised and how the reading is encouraged. A teacher can through her working methods control how the pupils relate to fiction and has therefor an important role, because of this the subordinate purpose of this study is to problematize and highlight how the teacher can encourage her pupils into different styles of reading. Questions:•What didactic choices does the teacher make in literature teaching?•What does the teacher want the pupils to pay attention to? •What are the learning methods for the pupils? This study has been made through observations and interviews with teachers who teach in primary school in Sweden. The empirical data have been analyzed based on Rosenblatt’s reading concepts and Langer’s conceptual worlds and furthermore their view of literature teaching and the teacher's role in it. The study shows that all of the teachers combine reading with writing assignments, where linguistic approaches are most common and usually primary. Even though the teachers showed an awareness of the importance of an aesthetic reading, they did not support aesthetic reading in their lessons. In the observed lesson it was shown that the method used by the teachers stimulated phase one in the imaginary worlds and an efferent reading which both pay attention for the impersonal and the general aspects that can be verified in a text. It should be noted that this study had a teacher’s perspective and not the perspective of the pupils.

This study is based on my work as a teacher of Swedish language and literature to upper secondary school students, and my interest in developing the teaching of literature by using both new criticism theories and theories of literary perception focusing on reader response. The purpose of the study is to examine the learning process in trying to develop literary competence and to find out how to describe the competence shown by the students. My starting-point is a discussion about literary competence and the theory and model of literary competence by Örjan Torell. In examining literary competence, by how students use their constitutional competence as well as performance and literary transfer competences, Torell´s model shows the possibility and the need for both knowledge of literature and personal reception by focusing on the dialogue between author and reader. The method is qualitative and the empirics are material collected in one senior high school class in the Social Science programme during their second and third year. The material contains written reading logs, written answers to tasks and transcribed recordings of discussions of literature. The analysis shows a variety among the literary competence shown and developed by the students and points to the complexity of understanding the concept of literary competence. The model proves to be useful in focusing the teaching and learning of literature and the results indicate that teaching of literature by combining learning of epochs, genres, ideas and conceptions with personal reading is a valuable approach. Keywords: literary competence, literary teaching, literary reception, discussions of literature, reading logs, literary repertoire, text competence.

<p>This study is based on my work as a teacher of Swedish language and literature to upper secondary school students, and my interest in developing the teaching of literature by using both new criticism theories and theories of literary perception focusing on reader response. The purpose of the study is to examine the learning process in trying to develop literary competence and to find out how to describe the competence shown by the students. My starting-point is a discussion about literary competence and the theory and model of literary competence by Örjan Torell. In examining literary competence, by how students use their constitutional competence as well as performance and literary transfer competences, Torell´s model shows the possibility and the need for both knowledge of literature and personal reception by focusing on the dialogue between author and reader.</p><p>The method is qualitative and the empirics are material collected in one senior high school class in the Social Science programme during their second and third year. The material contains written reading logs, written answers to tasks and transcribed recordings of discussions of literature.</p><p>The analysis shows a variety among the literary competence shown and developed by the students and points to the complexity of understanding the concept of literary competence. The model proves to be useful in focusing the teaching and learning of literature and the results indicate that teaching of literature by combining learning of epochs, genres, ideas and conceptions with personal reading is a valuable approach.</p><p>Keywords: literary competence, literary teaching, literary reception, discussions of literature, reading logs, literary repertoire, text competence.</p>

<p>This dissertation deals with Swedish upper secondary school students’ encounter and reception of various fictional texts in and outside of school. The focus of the study is how literary instruction, based on an expanded text concept, succeeds in meeting the students’ expectations and previous experiences of fictional texts. The theoretical framework consists of theories that approach reading as a transaction between text and reader in a social and cultural context.</p><p>The study is founded on qualitative methods, and the empirical material was collected through participant observation and interviews with students and teachers in four upper secondary school classes between 2001 and 2003. The research questions are: How does literary instruction develop students’ knowledge of fictional texts and reading? In what ways are the students’ textual worlds in and outside of school dialogically interrelated? How do students use different fictional texts in building their identities? Which values regarding different texts are visible in the classroom?</p><p>Findings indicate that mismatches between teachers’ and students’ literary repertoires are common in upper secondary school literary teaching. Since the literary instruction mainly drew upon traditional fiction, the students’ construction of literary worlds was not sufficiently supported. The students’ expectations of fiction reading were characterized by strong emotional involvement, and this was particularly true for the male students. The female students reported that there was a lack of female perspectives in the literary teaching.</p><p>The pedagogical implications of the study concern the importance of identifying the students’ literary repertoires and matching those with the literary instruction. Literary pedagogy should aim to expand these repertoires, and to help students acquire new reader roles. One way of achieving this is to promote dialogical teaching that encourages both efferent and aesthetic reading. Findings of the present study also indicate that teachers’ resources for working with an expanded text concept are limited. Consequently, current teacher education programmes and further training of working teachers must deal with reading of fictional texts from new and broader perspectives.</p>

This dissertation deals with Swedish upper secondary school students’ encounter and reception of various fictional texts in and outside of school. The focus of the study is how literary instruction, based on an expanded text concept, succeeds in meeting the students’ expectations and previous experiences of fictional texts. The theoretical framework consists of theories that approach reading as a transaction between text and reader in a social and cultural context. The study is founded on qualitative methods, and the empirical material was collected through participant observation and interviews with students and teachers in four upper secondary school classes between 2001 and 2003. The research questions are: How does literary instruction develop students’ knowledge of fictional texts and reading? In what ways are the students’ textual worlds in and outside of school dialogically interrelated? How do students use different fictional texts in building their identities? Which values regarding different texts are visible in the classroom? Findings indicate that mismatches between teachers’ and students’ literary repertoires are common in upper secondary school literary teaching. Since the literary instruction mainly drew upon traditional fiction, the students’ construction of literary worlds was not sufficiently supported. The students’ expectations of fiction reading were characterized by strong emotional involvement, and this was particularly true for the male students. The female students reported that there was a lack of female perspectives in the literary teaching. The pedagogical implications of the study concern the importance of identifying the students’ literary repertoires and matching those with the literary instruction. Literary pedagogy should aim to expand these repertoires, and to help students acquire new reader roles. One way of achieving this is to promote dialogical teaching that encourages both efferent and aesthetic reading. Findings of the present study also indicate that teachers’ resources for working with an expanded text concept are limited. Consequently, current teacher education programmes and further training of working teachers must deal with reading of fictional texts from new and broader perspectives.

Cette recherche s'inscrit dans le domaine de la didactique du français, dans la zone de contact entre enseignement de la langue et enseignement de la littérature. Elle a pour objet la glose à thème lexical dans la classe de littérature au cycle 3 de l'école primaire française. Ce que nous avons cherché à caractériser ce sont les échanges autour de certaines unités lexicales du texte à lire (les « épisodes métalexicaux ») et les échanges autour des mots que les élèves utilisent pour leurs propres commentaires (les « mots de la réception »). Que font-ils exactement quand ils parlent des mots d'un texte ou quels sont les mots qu'ils utilisent pour parler d'un texte? Quel lien avec ce qui est prescrit en matière d'enseignement du lexique, d'une part, et en matière d'enseignement de la lecture littéraire, d'autre part ?La méthode d'analyse des données est comparative. Elle concerne trois classes de CM2, deux enseignants expérimentés et un enseignant entrant dans le métier, autour de deux albums de littérature de jeunesse : La Petite fille du livre (Nadja) et Zappe la guerre (Pef). Nous avons mené une étude qualitative appuyée sur les transcriptions des échanges filmés dans les classes, ainsi que sur les transcriptions d'entretiens et de dispositifs d'autoconfrontation (empruntés à l'ergonomie et à l'ergologie).Ce travail s'intéresse au métadiscours dans le sens élargi que lui donne Andrée Borillo (1985) qui inclut les conduites langagières de commentaire, de définition, d'explication, portant sur le code ou sur les faits de discours.Nous avons d'abord appréhendé notre objet sur le plan linguistique et nous avons analysé la diversité des conduites et des procédés langagiers qui en font sa spécificité. Nous avons cherché ensuite à en saisir la particularité dans le cadre d'une activité de lecture littéraire.À partir de travaux de référence en lexicologie et en didactique de la littérature, nous avons construit un modèle distinguant plusieurs catégories de glose (les gloses sur la signification, les gloses sur le sens, les gloses sur les realia et les gloses génériques). Nous avons rangé l'ensemble de ces gloses dans trois paradigmes : un paradigme sémantique, un paradigme générique et un paradigme personnel.Nous avons pu montrer entre autres que le travail sur le vocabulaire en classe de littérature ne se résume pas à la définition, principale catégorie présupposée par les enseignants, mais engage de nombreuses conduites différentes. Nous avons montré aussi que ce travail joue un rôle dans l'activité de symbolisation attendue du sujet lecteur en contexte littéraire. Toutefois, l'analyse de l'action enseignante montre la complexité du pilotage de ces interactions autour du lexique et la nécessité de former les enseignants en matière d'enseignement du lexique en contexte littéraire. / This research joins in the field of French language didactics, in the area of contact between teaching of the language and teaching of literature in the third “cycle” of the French primary school.It covers the gloss around lexical items of the text to be read (the metalexical " episodes ") and the exchanges around the words the pupils use for their own comments (the " words of the reception ").What do they do exactly when they speak about the words of a text or what are the words they use to speak about a text? What link do they make with the prescription regarding teaching of the lexicon on one hand, and regarding teaching of the literary reading on the other hand? The method of analysis of the data is comparative. It concerns three 5th classes of primary school, two experimented teachers and a teacher starting their career, around two albums of youth literature: La petite fille du livre (Nadja) and Zappe la guerre (Pef).We led a qualitative study based on the transcriptions of the exchanges filmed in the classes, as well as on the transcriptions of interviews and plans of self-confrontation (borrowed from the study of ergonomics and ergology).This work focuses on the metadiscourse in its wider sense, studied by Andrée Borillo (1985) who includes the linguistic conducts of comment, definition, explanation, concerning the code or the facts of discourse.We first based our subject on the linguistic plan and we analysed what makes it specific - the diversity of the conducts and the linguistic processes. We then tried to seize its peculiarity within the framework of a literary reading activity.From reference works in lexicology and in literature didactics, we built a model distinguishing several categories of gloss (the glosses on meaning, the glosses on sense, the glosses on realia and generic glosses).We put all these glosses in three paradigms: a semantic paradigm, a generic paradigm and a personal paradigm.We were able to show, among other factors, that the work on the lexical field of literature cannot be reduced to its definition, the main category presumed by teachers, as it leads to many other conducts.We also showed that this work plays a role in the activity of symbolization that is expected from the subject reader in literary context. However, the analysis of the act of teaching shows the complexity of the piloting of these interactions around the lexicon and the necessity of training the teachers regarding lexicon teaching in a literary context.