Abstract The purpose of this study was to explore students’ ideas on the readability of classical literature andthe subsequent conversations about the literature. The teacher’s viewpoints were included, and shestated her teaching techniques and how these appeared to be perceived by the students. Theoretically,older literature can present a challenge to understand and interpret, in addition to the language beingold-fashioned. Furthermore, proven scientific strategies such as “deep reading” were explored. In thisstudy, a focus group with ninth year students discussed the texts Mor badar and Vägen ut by MoaMartinson and Harry Martinson and argued their views on the language and the readability in thetexts. The teacher was also interviewed to obtain her perspective of the students’ challenges, as well asher reading strategies to facilitate the students reading comprehension. To summarize, the results ofthe study showed that the students had difficulty in understanding the classic literary texts andrequired help and assistance from the teacher and fellow students, in order to understand the use of thelanguage and the message in the texts. According to the results, the students stated that they appliedreading strategies such as “deep reading” to decipher the meaning of the texts. In addition, havingconversations about the texts and the literary works proved to be a useful tool to them.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:su-189491 |
| Date | January 2020 |
| Creators | Cross, Sarah |
| Publisher | Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för språkdidaktik |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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