This dissertation is a qualitative study exploring the sociocultural influences on adult migrants’ second language learning and the communicative interaction through which they use the language. Guided by a theoretical perspective based on the concepts of life-world, habitus, social capital, symbolic honor, game, and the idea of the interrelatedness of learning and using a second language, this study aims to understand how migrants’ everyday life context, attachments to the home country, and ethnic affiliations affect the motivation for and attitude towards learning and using Swedish as a second language. Furthermore, the study explores in what way the context within which the language is taught and learned might affect the language development of adult migrants. The research questions of the study focus on both the institutional context, that is to say, what happened in a particular classroom where the study observations took place, and a migrant perspective based on the participants’ experiences of living in Sweden, learning the language and using it. Semi-structured interviews, informal conversational interviews, and classroom observations have been used as strategies to obtain qualitative data. The findings suggest that most of the participants experience feelings of non-belonging and otherness both in the classroom context and outside the classroom when they use the language. These feelings of non-belonging make the ties to other ethnic establishments stronger and lead to isolation from the majority society. The feelings of otherness, per se, are not only related to a pedagogical context that advocates monoculturalism but are also rooted in the migrants' life-world, embedded in dreams of going back to the home country, while forging a constant relation to ethnic networks, and in the practice of not using the Swedish language as frequently in the everyday life context as would be needed for their language development. / <p>ISBN 978-91-7104-591-1 (Malmö) ISBN:978-91-7519-271-0 (Linköping)</p>

This diploma work is primarily oriented at application of the authentic materials when using the LT strategy of authentic learning in teaching English to the pupils at Czech primary schools. In the theoretical part of this work there were at first analyzed curricular documents of the Czech Ministry of Education concerning the changes in the sphere of educational policy regarding Language and Language Communication. After that, there were described various ways of application of didactic principles of adequity, systematic approach, illustrativeness, willful learning, activity, individual approach, compactness of learning process and cyclical arrangement of the newly learned information. Next, there were defined the term of authentic learning and the difference between the didactic and authentic materials. There were also compared various views on the use of innovative authentic learning strategy in ELT and mentioned various possibilities of presenting sociocultural context of English speaking countries in language teaching. In the research part of these theses there was conducted research whether the authentic learning had really happened when the authentic materials were used in teaching English and if yes, to what extent exactly the authentic learning happened. For this reason there was done research at...

Cette recherche aborde la problématique du changement curriculaire dans l’enseignement de l’espagnol au Chili. Cette transformation du curriculum en 1996 a provoqué une modification dans la dénomination de la discipline scolaire, une nouvelle organisation des contenus, ainsi qu’une nouvelle approche didactique pour l’enseignement. Nous postulons que ces modifications ont occasionné une instabilité dans la manière de percevoir l’enseignement de l’espagnol aujourd’hui. Ainsi, le point de départ de cette recherche est de connaître et d’expliquer comment les différentes transformations curriculaires ont agi chez les enseignants, aussi bien dans la représentation qu’ils se sont construite de la discipline que dans la manière de traiter les contenus. Notre motivation principale était de connaître le point de vue des enseignants d’espagnol du primaire. De ce fait, nous avons interviewé douze enseignants des différents établissements scolaires à Santiago du Chili ; ces établissements avaient comme point commun le fait d’avoir une population scolaire majoritairement défavorisée. Notre intérêt pour la dernière classe du niveau primaire, s’explique par le fait que celle-ci dispense un niveau scolaire qui donne accès à l’enseignement secondaire. Ainsi, dans cette classe, les élèves sont censés avoir acquis un certains nombre de capacités et des compétences nécessaires pour le niveau secondaire. Une de nos hypothèses de départ postule que les élèves des enseignants interviewés n’ont pas acquis les compétences et les capacités de base signalées exigées par le curriculum dans ce niveau scolaire. Nous avons postulé ceci, car les nouveaux contenus et la nouvelle approche didactique de la discipline scolaire, impliquent un enseignement plus sophistiqué, basé notamment sur le développement des compétences que les enseignants ne comprennent pas dans toute sa dimension. / This research addresses the issue of curriculum change in the teaching of Spanish in Chile. This modification in the curriculum in 1996 caused a change of the school discipline’s name, a new organization of content as well as a new didactic approach to teaching. We postulate that these changes have caused instability in the manner of perceiving the teaching of Spanish today. Thus, the starting point of this research is to know and to explain the impact of the different curricular alterations among teachers, both in their own representation of the discipline and in the way they handle the content.Our main motivation was to know the views of primary school Spanish teachers. Therefore, we interviewed twelve teachers from different schools in Santiago, Chile. All of these institutions had in common a predominantly disadvantaged school population.Our interest in the last grade of primary school, is explained by the fact that it provides a level of education that gives access to secondary education. Thus, in this class, students are expected to have acquired a number of abilities and skills to get to the secondary level. One of our initial hypotheses postulates that the students of the interviewed teachers have not acquired the capabilities and basic skills that the curriculum of this grade reports as required. We postulated this as the new contents and new didactic approach to school discipline involve a more sophisticated teaching, a teaching based particularly on the development of skills that teachers do not fully understand.

Durante la década de los 90s, el Perú se encontraba en una situación política inestable debido a conflictos internos previos y a cambios que ocurrían en el mundo. La población, entonces, adopta una actitud pragmática en búsqueda de la reconstrucción nacional; actitud que puede verse reflejada en la producción artística de la época. Frente a este contexto, el presente trabajo de investigación busca analizar cómo se representa el hedonismo en los videos musicales de la banda peruana “Nosequien y los Nosecuantos” durante los años 90. Para su desarrollo; en un primer momento, se explicará el papel del videoclip dentro del proceso comunicativo. Posteriormente, definiremos el hedonismo como doctrina moral. Y, por último, se describirá el contexto sociocultural de los 90s en el Perú. Este artículo de investigación se basará en una visión del mundo interpretativa y se realizará bajo un enfoque cualitativo. Asimismo, la técnica metodológica que se usará para la obtención de datos será la del análisis de contenido. / During the 1990s, Peru was in an unstable political situation due to previous internal conflicts and changes that occurred in the world. Population, then, adopts a pragmatic attitude in search of national reconstruction; attitude that can be seen reflected in the artistic production of the time. In this context, this research work seeks to analyze how hedonism is represented in the music videos of the Peruvian band “Nosequien y los Nosecuantos” during the 90s. For its development, at first; the video clip role in the communication process will be explained. Subsequently, hedonism will be defined as a moral doctrine. And finally, the sociocultural context of the 90s in Peru will be described. This research article will be based on an interpretive worldview and will be done with a qualitative approach. Likewise, the methodological technique that will be used to obtain data will be that of content analysis. / Trabajo de investigación