BAKGRUND:I vår bakgrund har vi skrivit om tidigare forskning som berör vårt syfte och den relation som finns mellan klassrummet och Skolverkets dokument. Vi presenterar även vår teoretiska ram som utgår från Cummins modell för andraspråksinlärning och Vygotskijs sociokulturella förhållningssätt. Vi presenterar även vår analysmodell för ordförrådsdidaktik som utgår från Pikulski och Templetons vokabulärutveckling.SYFTE:Vårt syfte är att undersöka hur ordförrådsundervisningen i ett andraspråksperspektiv uttrycks och gestaltar sig på tre nivåer i utbildningssystemet samt relationen mellan dessa tre nivåer.METOD:För att besvara syftet valde vi att göra en fallstudie. I vår fallstudie har vi använt oss utav intervjuer, observationer och studerat skolans dokument samt Skolverkets.RESULTAT:Studiens resultat visade att ett stort fokus på ordförrådsutvecklingen låg på elevnära och vardagsrelaterade ord. Eleverna arbetade självständigt med enligt pedagogen passande moment för sin utvecklingsnivå. När det gäller ordförrådsutveckling som sker via talande och lyssnande var det lätt att se överensstämmelser mellan vad som hände i klassrummet och vad som stod beskrivet i dokument på två nivåer.

The purpose of this study is to understand how students in year 4, 5 and 6 describe their learning of new words. This study uses a qualitative method based on interviews with students, who have linguistic vulnerabilities, describing their thoughts about learning new words. The results have been analyzed from the students’ perspective and through four themes. The themes are students’ learning of new words, words depth and breadth, the teaching of new words and reading and reading comprehension. The study shows that from the students’ perspective, teachers have an important part in their vocabulary development. Based on the students’ descriptions, teachers mainly describe new words orally. Furthermore, the results show that the students had problems with words that are characteristic of the written language and important for reading comprehension, also known as level 2 words. There were only few words that the students had a deeper understanding and could give a correct definition of. The results implies that teaches need to adapt and develop their vocabulary teaching to give students a greater vocabulary depth and breadth.

The aim of this intervention study was to examine the effect of Robust Vocabulary Instruction in a Swedish second grade regular classroom setting, to evaluate to which degree a rich vocabulary instruction is beneficial for all students’ vocabulary growth. Sophisticated target-words (tier 2 words) from a children’s book read aloud, were instructed to 24 children in the experimental class, whereas 20 children in the comparison class heard the same story but received no instruction. Students in each classroom were divided into two sub-groups based on the results of a standardized vocabulary test, group A with an estimated vocabulary knowledge below age-level, and group B with an estimated vocabulary knowledge within age-level. To assess their knowledge of the target-words, all 44 pupils were tested pre and post intervention. Both groups of children in the experimental classroom made significantly higher results post intervention. Gains were largest in experimental group B. In experimental group A the effect of the intervention varied considerably. Four pupils out of ten in experimental group A made little or no progress. The results suggest that some children in language vulnerability might not respond to vocabulary instruction as expected in a whole classroom setting, which calls for a differentiated and multi-tiered approach, with a higher level of support for these children in small groups or one-to-one design.