The purpose of this thesis is to study how four different Swedish teachers in elementary school are teaching pupils reading comprehension to develop the low-performing pupils. To investigate and find out this I intend to try to answer the following questions: What strategies / methods / support structures do the teachers consider to help the lowperforming pupils understand the content of texts? How does the teacher reflect on the support the pupils receive? What types of questions do the teachers use in the text talks to support the pupils in developing their reading skills? The research questions are answered by qualitative methods in forms of interviews and observations. The theoretical point of view of the study is Lev Vygotsky's socio-cultural perspective, where Vygotsky describes how children develop when interacting with other people. Because teachers are the ones helping pupils develop, I will investigate how the interviewed teachers are working with those pupils and whether they believe this theory helps and guides the low-performing pupils forward in the learning process. The results of the study show that all the interviewed teachers agree on that pupils develop their reading skills when interacting with more competent classmates because it increases their ability to absorb information.
Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:sh-36243 |
Date | January 2018 |
Creators | Akboga, Dilan |
Publisher | Södertörns högskola, Lärarutbildningen |
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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