In this qualitative study we are going to use semi-structured interview, we have investigated four teachers who teach the subject of Spanish as a foreign language- in different parts of Sweden. The purpose is to investigate different methods of the process of writing used by teachers and if they use de circle model as a method or not (Gibbons, 2018). It also aims to evoke if there is any advantage and disadvantage with the methods used by the teachers. The results show that all the teachers use different methods that have both advantages and disadvantages. None of the teachers use the circle model. On the other hand, all the teachers use parts of the circle model.

I have been working with family treatment since 1970. This essay in practical knowledge takes its examples from a family treatment commisson 1996, an Assignment from the social wellfare system. I keept a journal from these days. The examples come from those notes. In the broad sense I make my starting - point from systemic thinking and stand whith one foot in social work and the other in family therapy. Sometimes I describe my way of working as a movement from social enegineering to anthropology. Writing this essay has made me consider that this is not always the truth. Sometimes I get directive and normative, instead of not knowing. Sometimes I act more like a missionary than as an antropologist. Like missionaries I sometimes get involved in colonizing the families everyday life. To investigate this I have used reflection through the writing process. Which means that the narrative has transformed into four steps during this essay. This process developed with the questions from my superviser and from collegues. By that the understanding of myself in the narrative has transformed as well. The first step is the linear, dramatic story. The second is the reflecting, circular step. The third is the problemazing, strategic step. The fourth is the extended story which summarizes the storys before plus new discoveries about myself. Families exist whithin a cultural context. Familylife is structured through a set of normative assumptions about how to organize and develop, how to solve problems and communicate. Salvador Minuchin who developed the structural family therapy, worked in countries like Israel, Argentina and the USA, was convinced that these norms existed in every culture. At the same time these values embodies the imperative goals to be striven for as the patterns of a ”normal”,traditional core family, in terms of offering the most valuabel nurturance for children. Structural familly therapy shares the existentialists interest of growing and the strategists interest for the threatening. My first question is whether my way of working whith family treatment, make their structure more transparent so they reveal themselves more than they need or want to. By working whith this essay I have detected that I mixed the meaning of deceiving as a criminal act, whith selfdeception which is an existential invitation. This made me stress the confrontation of the deceiving. Today I would probably make other decisions and work with the pattern of selfdeception more on a long-term. The other question is about the creativity, spontaneity and play as essential ingredients in my way of confronting patterns of communicating and organazing that troubles the family. Change sometimes comes around when playfull activities take place and reflexions over it leed to insights and new patterns. / Jag har arbetat som familjebehandlare sedan 1970. Uppsatsen i praktisk kunskap utgår från exempel i en familj som jag arbetade med 1996, på uppdrag av socialtjänsten. Jag förde dagbok över mitt arbete. Exemplen grundar sig på de anteckningarna. Mitt arbete utgår i vid bemärkelse från ett systemiskt tänkande och står med ena benet i socialt arbete och det andra i familjeterapi. Mitt förhållningssätt brukar jag beskriva som en rörelse från social ingenjörskonst till antropologiskt sökande. Arbetet med denna uppsats har fått mig att förstå att denna beskrivning bara delvis är sann. Jag blir ibland direktiv och normativ i stället för icke-vetande. Jag blir ibland mer som missionär än som antropolog. Just som missionärerna gjorde, blir jag delaktig i systemkrafternas kolonisering av familjens vardagsliv. För att undersöka detta har jag använt mig av reflektion genom skrivandets process. Det innebär att berättelsen genom uppsatsskrivandet har transformerats i fyra steg. Handledarens och kollegers frågor har hjälpt mig att föra berättelsen vidare. Därigenom har också förståelsen av mig själv i berättelsen ändrats. Första steget är den linjära dramatiska berättelsen. Andra steget är den reflekterande berättelsen, som är mer cirkulär och betonar mig i sammanhanget. Tredje steget är den strategiska och problematiserande berättelsen. Fjärde steget är den utvidgade berättelsen, som innehåller aspekter från de tidigare berättelserna samt nya upptäckter om mig själv. Familjer lever i ett kulturellt sammanhang. Familjelivet struktureras genom en uppsättning normativa antaganden om hur familjer ska organisera sig, utvecklas, lösa problem och kommunicera. Salvador Minuchin som var tongivande i att utveckla strukturell familjeterapi, ansåg att dessa värderingar fanns i de flesta kulturer. Han verkade bland annat i USA, Argentina och Israel som familjeterapeut och psykiater. Samtidigt är dessa värderingar en uppfordrande strävan till den ”normala”, traditionella kärnfamiljens struktur. Med den goda avsikten att garantera barn omsorg och trygghet. Strukturell familjeterapi delar existentialistens intresse för växandet och strategens intresse för det hotande. Den första frågan handlar om huruvida mitt sätt att arbeta med familjebehandling gör deras familjeliv transparent och därmed avslöjar mer än de vill eller behöver göra. Genom arbetet med uppsatsen inser jag bland annat att jag blandade ihop bedrägeri som brottslig handling och självbedrägeri som existentiell utmaning. Därför drev jag på för att konfrontera den bedrägliga handlingen. I dag skulle jag inte fatta sådana beslut utan mer långsiktigt arbetat med deras självbedrägliga mönster. Den andra frågeställningen rör kreativitetens, spontanitetens och lekens betydelse i mitt arbete. Slutsatsen blir att för en aktivitetsinriktad terapeut som jag, blir dessa begrepp centrala för att hitta vägar att bryta organisering och kommunikation som hindrar nödvändiga problemlösningar. Man säger ibland att förändring i familjearbetet åstadkoms genom strukturella åtgärder (familjen får en lägenhet, eller någon placeras) genom insikt eller genom handling. Jag använder kreativitet för att hitta handlingar som senare i reflektion kan leda till insikt eller förändring.

Throughout our teacher training program, we have noticed that students struggle to see the reason with writing task designs that are short and concludes upon the end of the lesson. Therefore, this degree project aims to gain an insight to whether the methods used in process writing and its various concepts can be used efficiently within schools to assist students in reaching higher grades and have higher rates of academic success, as well as discover the impacts of motivation tied in with the use of these specific task designs. This paper will firstly introduce an overview of the different theories and concepts that are tied to process writing, such as feedback, rubrics use. In prior studies made, researchers have found that academic success is influenced by the use of strategies that correlate to the methods in process writing, and also describes how this impact is made. Secondly, this degree project is based on interviews made with three active 7-9 English teachers and 15 students (in years 8-9) in the southern of Sweden to research the possibility of motivation being affected in any way through the use of these task designs that, according to researchers, will lead the students to higher rates of academic success. The major conclusions of this study are that (I) students and teachers feel that it is useful to utilize the different key concepts tied to process writing in order to gain proficiency in the English language, (II) teachers often use at least one, if not more, of the methods included in process writing, and feel that they have an impact on student learning within the subject, (III) students feel that their motivation can be impacted through the use of these strategies, and be affected differently based on teacher instruction, (IV) many of the schools that were visited have grade-oriented students that can affect student motivation to learn, and the reasons for learning, (V) in addition to how well the students feel engaged to work with a task depending on their interests. (VI) Lastly, it also has an impact at what stage the teacher decides to assess their students, while working with process writing tasks.

The aim of my study is to investigate if and in that case how the writing process and texts written by students in the upper secondary school are affected by the writing tool; does it matter if they write their texts on a computer or by longhand? Another objective is to compare such an effect with the findings of previous studies performed on earlier generations of writers. The first part of my study was a survey. It showed that two thirds of the 67 students participating thought that they would have written better texts in the national writing test if they had been able to use computers. In the second part of the study each of the fourteen participants wrote one text on computer and another by hand. Unlike the findings of earlier studies that I compared with, these students had a higher writing speed and spent significantly less time to produce their texts. This result could indicate that the students of today not only are accustomed to computers but also are unfamiliar with writing by hand. Furthermore this study, like previous studies, did not show any statistic proof of a correlation between a specific writing tool and the quality of the written text. Hence it did not support the opinion that the students of today have a disadvantage when they have to write their national test by hand. On the other hand the study indicated that such disadvantage still could be the fact for some individuals. Three of the participants took part in the third part of the study where they produced two more texts; one by hand and the other on computer. Their writing processes were recorded and the analyses indicate an individual variation in whether the writing tool had an effect on the writing process and quality of texts. / Syftet med min undersökning är att undersöka om och i så fall hur gymnasieelevers skrivprocesser och texter påverkas av om de skriver för hand eller på dator, men också att jämföra en eventuell påverkan med den som har konstaterats för tidigare generationer av datoranvändare. Bakgrundsenkäten i den första delundersökningen visade att två tredjedelar av de 67 elever trodde att de skulle ha skrivit bättre texter på det nationella provet i svenska om de hade fått använda dator. I den andra delundersökningen medverkade fjorton av gymnasieeleverna genom att skriva två texter, en för hand och en på dator. Ett resultat som skilde sig från dem i de tidigare studier jag jämförde med var att deltagarna skrev snabbare och under kortare tid när de använde dator. Resultatet tyder på att dagens gymnasieelever inte bara är datorvana utan kanske också ovana att skriva för hand. I likhet med tidigare undersökningar visade delundersökningen inte en statistiskt signifikant kvalitetsskillnad mellan deltagarnas datorskrivna och handskrivna texter. Gymnasieelevernas farhågor om att textkvaliteten skulle ha försämrats av att de tvingades skriva det nationella provet för hand fick därmed inget stöd. Samtidigt visade studien att för enskilda individer skulle det faktiskt kunna förhålla sig så. Tre av deltagarna medverkade även i den tredje delundersökningen, där deras skrivprocesser dokumenterades i samband med att de skrev ytterligare en text på dator och en för hand. Resultatet av den andra delundersökningen pekar mot att skrivverktygets påverkan på skrivprocessen och även på texternas kvalitet skulle kunna variera från person till person.

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Many students who come to universities and colleges find it difficult to acquire a well-functioning academic language, especially in writing. This is confirmed in several studies (Ahlm m.fl. 2009, Ask, 2005, 2007, Hoel 2010). One measure that is called for is concerted activities, which help to socialize students into the academy. The aim of this essay is to use the students’ experiences to elucidate and analyse the conditions for peer response in process-oriented writing in higher education, the difficulties it entails, and its consequences for teach-ing and learning. The students’ experiences of and attitudes to peer response in relation to academic literacy are studied and analysed critically in a course on the use of academic lan-guage. The empirical section presents the implementation and results of the selected methods – a questionnaire and interview with 30 and 5 students respectively on a professional educa-tion programme during their first year of study. The result shows a close correspondence be-tween the students’ experiences of peer response linked to their experiences of their develop-ment of academic writing, but also between their experiences of peer response and attitudes to and experiences of their knowledge of academic writing. The study also demonstrates the students’ experiences of success factors and pitfalls of peer response. The success factors concern metalanguage, working with a clear structure, reading and discussion of texts, and the need for an open, secure climate. The students’ experiences of the pitfalls of peer response concern, on the one hand, socio-emotional and psychological aspects in relation to the other students, for example the difficulty of balancing the response, and especially of daring to crit-icize a text sharply. On the other hand, it concerns the fear of not being good enough because of inadequate knowledge of academic language and academic text.