The aim of this report is to investigate how often and how computers are used during Spanish as foreign language classes regarding reading comprehension and written production. Our intentions are also to compare elementary schools and upper secondary schools, as well as to investigate if there are any diferencies between the perceptions of the teachers and the pupils. We have mainly based our study on the theories of Acquaroni Muños and Cassani i Comas. They both have written articles about reading comprehension and written production. Regarding computers and their functions the articles of Ruipérez García and Higueras García have a great significance. We have chosen to use a quantitative method, in form of questionnaires. We have created one questionnaire for the students and another one for the teachers. The questionnaires were carried out in two different upper secondary schools and in one elementary school in the southwest of Sweden. The students’ questionnaire contains 64 questions while the teachers’ questionnaire contains 60 questions. Our hypothesis was that the computer is not used while teaching reading comprension. However, we expected the computer to be used a lot while teaching writing. Regarding perceptions our hypotheses were that there were none differences between the pupils and the teachers while we expected differences between the upper secondary school and the elementary school. The result of the investigation shows that the computer is used little in the education of Spanish as a foreign language regarding reading comprehension and written production. As far as the differences between the teachers and the pupils are concerned the study shows that their perceptions differed. The comparison between upper secondary school and elementary school indicates several differences in the use of computers. All the results refuted out hypotheses except the last one indicating the differences between the upper secondary and elementary school which was confirmed.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:lnu-65301 |
| Date | January 2017 |
| Creators | Olsen, Lina |
| Publisher | Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk (SPR) |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Spanish |
| 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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