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  • 1.
    af Geijerstam, Åsa
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Education.
    Att skriva i alla ämnen i tidiga skolår2020In: Skrivundervisningens grunder / [ed] Karin Forsling och Catharina Tjernberg, Malmö: Gleerups Utbildning AB, 2020, p. 57-74Chapter in book (Other academic)
  • 2.
    af Geijerstam, Åsa
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of Linguistics and Philology.
    Att skriva i naturorienterande ämnen i skolan2006Doctoral thesis, monograph (Other academic)
    Abstract [en]

    When children encounter new subjects in school, they are also faced with new ways of using language. Learning science thus means learning the language of science, and writing is one of the ways this is accomplished. The present study investigates writing in natural sciences in grades 5 and 8 in Swedish schools. Major theoretical influences for these investigations are found within the socio-cultural, dialogical and social semiotic perspectives on language use.

    The study is based on texts written by 97 students, interviews around these texts and observations from 16 different classroom practices. Writing is seen as a situated practice; therefore analysis is carried out of the activities surrounding the texts. The student texts are analysed in terms of genre and in relation to their abstraction, density and use of expansions. This analysis shows among other things that the texts show increasing abstraction and density with increasing age, whereas the text structure and the use of expansions do not increase.

    It is also argued that a central point in school writing must be the students’ way of talking about their texts. Analysis of interviews with the students is thus carried out in terms of text movability. The results from this analysis indicate that students find it difficult to talk about their texts. They find it hard to express the main content of the text, as well as to discuss it’s function and potential readers.

    Previous studies argue that writing constitutes a potential for learning. In the material studied in this thesis, this potential learning tool is not used to any large extent. To be able to participate in natural sciences in higher levels, students need to take part in practices where the specialized language of natural science is used in writing as well as in speech.

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  • 3.
    af Geijerstam, Åsa
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Education.
    Curriculum studies of mother-tongue education in Swedish: Introductory remarks2012In: Education Inquiry, E-ISSN 2000-4508, ISSN 2000-4508, Vol. 3, no 4, p. 471-475Article in journal (Refereed)
  • 4.
    af Geijerstam, Åsa
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Education.
    Det naturvetenskapliga ämnesspråket2012In: Skriv! Les! 1, Trondheim: Akademika forlag, 2012, p. 29-44Conference paper (Refereed)
  • 5.
    af Geijerstam, Åsa
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Education.
    Det ämnesspecifika skrivandet i naturvetenskapliga ämnen2016In: Skolverkets modul: Att genomföra systematiska undersökningar: Del 6: Att dokumentera undersökningar / [ed] Skolverket, Stockholm: Skolverket , 2016, p. 1-11Chapter in book (Other academic)
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  • 6.
    af Geijerstam, Åsa
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of Linguistics. Uppsala University, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Curriculum Studies. Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of Linguistics and Philology. Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Education.
    Hur har du uppfattat det? En studie av den fenomenografiska ansatsen och dess förmåga att fånga elevens uppfattningar av lärobokstexter1998In: Papers, Uppsala: Department of Linguistics, Uppsala , 1998, Vol. 33, p. 39-72Chapter in book (Other academic)
  • 7.
    af Geijerstam, Åsa
    Uppsala University, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Curriculum Studies.
    ”I NO skriver man bara så man förstår.” Men hur skriver man, och hur förstår man? Expansioner och textrörlighet i elevtexter.2007Conference paper (Other academic)
    Abstract [sv]

    Att lära sig ett nytt ämnesområde innebär även att lära sig det språk som används inom det området. Tidigare forskning visar att det är nödvändigt att lära sig att skriva inom till exempel de olika naturvetenskapliga genrerna för att bli en kompetent elev inom detta område (se t ex Halliday & Martin 1993, Wignell, 1998).

     

    I denna presentation vill jag närmare diskutera expansioner i texter skrivna av elever i skolår 5 och 8 i NO och SO-ämnena. Genom expansioner byggs semantiska relationer mellan händelser genom satser som definierar (’alltså’, ’med andra ord’), bygger ut (’och’, ’men’) eller specificerar (’sen’, ’för att’) den inledande satsen (Halliday & Matthiessen 2004).  Expansioner har diskuterats som en viktig del av den vetenskapliga diskursen, både i sig själva och även som ett uttryck för elevernas förståelse av vad de skriver (Keys 1999). I presentationen diskuterar jag graden av expansioner i texterna i relation till hur eleverna talar om sina texter, deras textrörlighet. Det visar sig bland annat att framför allt högpresterande elever har en högre textrörlighet i de texter som även har en högre grad av expansioner.

  • 8.
    af Geijerstam, Åsa
    Uppsala University, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Curriculum Studies.
    Kritisk kausalitet?: En undersökning av kausalitet i texter och frågor i PIRLS-provets informativa texter2011In: Åttonde nationella konferensen i svenska med didaktisk inriktning: Språket, kroppen och rummet - multimodala och digitala perspektiv på lärande. Södertörns högskola 25-26 november 2010 / [ed] Jenny Magnusson, Anna Malmbjer, Daniel Wojahn, 2011, p. 51-61Conference paper (Other academic)
    Abstract [sv]

    Med denna presentation vill jag närmare diskutera olika sätt att definiera och resonera kring kausalitet i texter.

    Tidigare analyser av expansionsrelationer i det internationella läsförståelseprovet PIRLS 2006 (ges för 10-åringar) har visat att uttryckta kausala relationer inte är särskilt vanliga i testets informativa texter.

    Med exempel ur frågor och bedömningsguide för PIRLS 2006 diskuteras nu till vilken grad frågorna uppmuntrar till kausala resonemang hos eleverna, och till vilken grad dessa frågor hänvisar till delar av texten där uttryckt kausalitet finns.  En vidare diskussion blir sedan vilken roll förklaringar och kausala relationer spelar i läromedel och uppgifter i grundskolans mellanår.

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  • 9.
    af Geijerstam, Åsa
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Education.
    Läsandet och sammanhanget.: Läspositioner i olika ämnen i skolan.2014In: Mötesplatser.: Texter för svenskämnet. / [ed] Ann Boglind, Per Holmerg och Anna Nordenstam, Lund: Studentlitteratur AB, 2014, p. 47-64Chapter in book (Other academic)
  • 10.
    af Geijerstam, Åsa
    Uppsala University, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Curriculum Studies.
    Om skrivande i naturorienterande ämnen: "Hon skrev upp vad vi skulle ha med på labbrapporten och sen så skrev vi det. Så var det inte så mycket mer än så."2010In: Symposium 2009: genrer och funktionellt språk i teori och praktik / [ed] Mikael Olofsson, Stockholm: Stockholms universitets förlag , 2010, p. 176-188Conference paper (Other academic)
    Abstract [sv]

    I kapitlet diskuteras en undersökning om elevers skrivande i naturorienterande ämnen, hur texterna ser ut och hur eleverna talar om de texter de skrivit. Resultaten diskuteras i relation till sådant som ämnesspråk och förståelse.

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  • 11.
    af Geijerstam, Åsa
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of Linguistics and Philology. Uppsala University, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Curriculum Studies.
    Skrivande i NO-ämnet: en forskningsinventering och ett par svenska exempel2004In: Andra nationella konferensen i svenska med didaktisk inriktning. Göteborg 8-9 januari 2004., 2004Conference paper (Other academic)
    Abstract [sv]

    Åsa af Geijerstam diskuterar i sin artikel "Skrivande i NO-ämnet" elevers skrivande utifrån olika aspekter. Hon redovisar data från projektet Elevers möte med skolans textvärldar och tar sin utgångspunkt i bland annat kognitiva, konstruktivistiska och sociokulturella perspektiv. Vidare problematiserar af Geijerstam elevers skrivande i NO-ä,mnen utifrån frågor om anknytningar till textkulturer och utifrån frågor om dialogens betydelse i detta sammanhang.

  • 12.
    af Geijerstam, Åsa
    Uppsala University, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Curriculum Studies.
    Specificering, utveckling eller bara en massa tillägg? Om expansionsrelationer i PIRLS-provetsinformativa texter2009Conference paper (Other academic)
    Abstract [sv]

    Att uttrycka exempelvis kausalitet, hänvisningar till tid och plats, exemplifieringar eller motsatsförhållanden är något som ofta diskuteras som centralt för en ”lyckad” text. Det visar sig dock att elever gör detta i varierande grad, och att graden av sammanhang i texterna i hög grad varierar med textaktiviteten (af Geijerstam, 2006). Det är också relevant att undersöka hur relationer av detta slag uttrycks i texter elever möter i test. I denna presentation fokuseras de informativa texter som ingår i läsförståelseprovet PIRLS 2006.

    Expansionsrelationer som uttrycks i texten samt vilka funktionella relationer som finns mellan satser diskuteras. Analysen av sammanhang i texten utgår från Hallidays system för satskoppling (Halliday 2004), och kompletteras med analys av de funktionella relationerna mellan enheterna (Mann & Thompson 1988, Evensen 2005).

  • 13.
    af Geijerstam, Åsa
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Education.
    Vem gör, vem är och vem upplever?: En analys av processer och deltagare i tidigt narrativt skolskrivande.2014In: Mångfaldens möjligheter.: Litteratur- och språkdidaktik i Norden. / [ed] Peter Andersson, Per Holmberg, Anna Lyngfelt, Anna Nordenstam och Olle Widhe, Göteborg: Göteborgs universitet, 2014, p. 99-114Chapter in book (Refereed)
  • 14.
    af Geijerstam, Åsa
    et al.
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of Linguistics and Philology.
    Björk, Oscar
    Engblom, Charlotte
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Education.
    Wiksten Folkeryd, Jenny
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Education.
    Hort, Sofia
    Liberg, Caroline
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Education.
    Norrman, Kimberly
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Education.
    Westman, Maria
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Education.
    Rasmusson, Maria
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Psychology.
    Praktiknära skolforskning: resultat och erfarenheter från nio forskningsprojekt2024Report (Other academic)
  • 15.
    af Geijerstam, Åsa
    et al.
    Uppsala University, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Curriculum Studies.
    Edling, Agnes
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of Linguistics and Philology.
    Folkeryd, Jenny
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of Linguistics and Philology. Uppsala University, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Curriculum Studies.
    Liberg, Caroline
    Uppsala University, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Curriculum Studies.
    En elev, en vecka och två texter - Perspektiv på mötet mellan elev och textkultur2002In: Svenskläraren, ISSN 0346-2412, Vol. 5, p. 14-17Article in journal (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
  • 16.
    af Geijerstam, Åsa
    et al.
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Education.
    Folkeryd, Jenny
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Education.
    Utveckling av metaspråk för tidigt skolskrivande2020In: Grænsegængere og grænsedragninger i nordiska modersmålsfag / [ed] N. Elf, T. Høegh, K. Kabel, E. Krogh, A. Piekut, & H. Rørbech, Odense: Syddansk Universitetsforlag, 2020, p. 277-295Chapter in book (Refereed)
    Abstract [sv]

    I kapitlet undersöks och diskuteras metaspråkets roll för att lärare ska kunna diskutera elevers texter, och i förlängningen kunna skapa goda förutsättningar för alla elevers utveckling av olika typer av skrivande. Lärares samtal om informativa texter skrivna i tidiga skolår undersöktes. Samtalen fördes före och efter en fortbildning om språkliga resurser för att uttrycka, fördjupa och skapa ett sammanhängande innehåll samt för att skapa en relation till en läsare. Den största skillnaden mellan lärarnas samtal före och efter fortbildningen fanns i samtal om hur texterna relaterar till en läsare, där en stor ökning av den metaspråkliga repertoaren syntes. I avslutande textdiskussioner utvecklar lärare också de metaspråkliga begreppen i högre grad genom exemplifieringar och förklaringar i relation till den text som kommenteras, vilket tyder på att metaspråket börjar systematiseras.

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  • 17.
    af Geijerstam, Åsa
    et al.
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Education.
    Folkeryd, Jenny
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Education.
    Liberg, Caroline
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Education.
    Linguistically based scales for assessment of young students’ writing2022In: Writing & Pedagogy, ISSN 1756-5839, E-ISSN 1756-5847, Vol. 13, no 1-3, p. 227-265Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    This study addresses the question of how different aspects of students’ writing achievement can be recognised and evaluated. We developed a linguistically based framework for criteria-based assessment, anchored in a functional view of language and language learning. The framework was used to determine what traits characterise texts at different Proficiency Groups based on comparative judgement and what traits characterise texts assessed differently. Altogether, 100 texts (written by students ages 6–9) representing four text genres were assessed and ranked using both comparative judgement (holistic assessment) and criteria-based analysis. The results indicate that texts generally are assessed as stronger (i.e., placed in a higher Proficiency Group) when comparative judgement is used than what the assessment of a specific language resource indicates. The results also indicate that assessment differences might be a result of different quality expectations for different genres. This points towards the need for genre- and subject-specific assessment criteria to scaffold students in their emergent disciplinary writing development.

  • 18.
    af Geijerstam, Åsa
    et al.
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of Linguistics and Philology. Uppsala University, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Curriculum Studies.
    Folkeryd, Jenny W
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of Linguistics and Philology. Uppsala University, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Curriculum Studies.
    Elevtexter i grundskolan2006In: Textvård: att läsa, skriva och bedöma texter, Stockholm: Norstedts akademiska förlag , 2006, p. 141-Chapter in book (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
  • 19.
    af Geijerstam, Åsa
    et al.
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Education.
    Folkeryd, Jenny W.
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Education.
    Enkel/utvecklad/välutvecklad elevtext i biologi, hur bedömer vi det?2014In: Bedömning i svenskämnet årskurs 7-9 / [ed] Gustaf Skar & Michael Tengberg, Natur och kultur, 2014Chapter in book (Other academic)
  • 20.
    af Geijerstam, Åsa
    et al.
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Education.
    Folkeryd, Jenny W.
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Education.
    Fel- men på olika sätt.: En analys av elevers felaktiga svar enligt PIRLS-provet.2013In: Läsning / [ed] Gustav Skar & Michael Tengberg, Stockholm: Natur och kultur, 2013Chapter in book (Other academic)
  • 21.
    af Geijerstam, Åsa
    et al.
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Education.
    Folkeryd, Jenny W.
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Education.
    Hallesson, Yvonne
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of Scandinavian Languages.
    Visén, Pia
    Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för språkdidaktik.
    Ämnesspecifikt textarbete i samhällskunskap – mer än bara begrepp2020Conference paper (Refereed)
  • 22.
    af Geijerstam, Åsa
    et al.
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Education.
    Hort, Sofia
    Mälardalens universitet.
    Textens funktion viktig när nybörjare lär sig skriva2023In: Svenskläraren, ISSN 0346-2412, Vol. 2, p. 19-21Article in journal (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
  • 23.
    af Geijerstam, Åsa
    et al.
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Education.
    Runeson, Jenny
    Nilholm, Claes
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Education.
    Östman, Leif
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Education.
    Ingelshed, Lena
    Att skriva faktatext i fyran2017In: Undersöka och utveckla undervisning.: Professionell utveckling för lärare. / [ed] Almqvist, Jonas, Hamza, Karim, Olin, Anette, Lund: Studentlitteratur AB, 2017, p. 67-84Chapter in book (Other academic)
  • 24.
    af Geijerstam, Åsa
    et al.
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Education.
    Wiksten Folkeryd, Jenny
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Education.
    Fel men rätt på något sätt?: En analys av elevers nollsvar enligt PIRLS-provet.2013In: Läsning!: Svensklärarföreningens årsskrift 2013 / [ed] Gustaf Skar och Michael Tengberg, Stockholm: Natur och kultur, 2013, p. 37-55Chapter in book (Refereed)
  • 25.
    af Geijerstam, Åsa
    et al.
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Education.
    Wiksten Folkeryd, Jenny
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Education.
    Läsande och skrivande i olika ämnen2019In: Att bli lärare i svenska / [ed] Caroline Liberg och Jon Smidt, Stockholm: Liber, 2019, p. 89-101Chapter in book (Other academic)
  • 26.
    af Geijerstam, Åsa
    et al.
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Education.
    Wiksten Folkeryd, Jenny
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Education.
    Hallesson, Yvonne
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of Scandinavian Languages.
    Raattamaa Visén, Pia
    Institutionen för ämnesdidaktik, Stockholms universitet.
    Förutsättningar för ämnesspecifik läsförståelse i samhällskunskap i grundskolan2023In: Educare, ISSN 1653-1868, E-ISSN 2004-5190, no 2, p. 114-147Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    This paper deepens the understanding of conditions for students' subject-specific reading comprehension created through different ways of working with reading in civic education, and the support students thus get to read verbal texts. Motivation for the study is found in an increasing need for knowledge about reading in various school subjects, and theoretical foundation is found in New Literacy Studies and disciplinary literacy. Video recordings were analyzed from lessons in three different schools and six different classes (ca 100h in total). The schools worked with reading in different ways, two schools used different models for teaching reading and one school did not use any particular model. The material was analyzed using thematic content analysis. Seven different functions for reading were identified together with reading materials. Furthermore, we analyzed which text levels were in focus. Results show that the classrooms where teachers work according to special models give clearer support to read and comprehend longer coherent verbal texts by using this type of texts and working with them through a variety of functions for reading activities, activities general for several subjects as well as more subject specific activities.

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    af Geijerstam m.fl. 2023
  • 27. Ahmad, Bassam
    et al.
    Bunar, Nihad
    Riad, Tomas
    Forslund, Anneli
    af Geijerstam, Åsa
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Education. Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of Linguistics and Philology.
    Svenska som andraspråk på språkintroduktion2019In: Didaktisk utvecklingsdialog: Lärares och skolledares professionella utveckling / [ed] Anette Olin, Jonas Almqvist, Karim Hamza, Lisbeth Gyllander Torkildsen, Lund: Studentlitteratur AB, 2019, p. 67-84Chapter in book (Other academic)
  • 28.
    Billing, AnnaCarin
    et al.
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Department of Literature.
    Wiksten Folkeryd, JennyUppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Education.af Geijerstam, ÅsaUppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Education.Hallesson, YvonneUppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of Scandinavian Languages.Nord, AndreasUppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of Scandinavian Languages. Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur, Karlstads universitet.Nordberg, OlleUppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Education. Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Department of Literature.Palmér, AnneUppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of Scandinavian Languages.
    Ämnesdidaktiska perspektiv på språk och litteratur: Åttonde nordiska konferensen för modersmålsdidaktisk forskning (NNMF8), Uppsala universitet, 24–25 november 20212023Conference proceedings (editor) (Refereed)
    Abstract [sv]

    Den åttonde nordiska konferensen för modersmålsdidaktisk forskning genomfördes den 24–25 november med Uppsala universitet som värd. Deltagare var forskare som anlägger didaktiska perspektiv på svenska, norska och danska – som modersmål, andraspråk och som det språk som används i olika skol- och universitetsämnen. Temat var Ämnesdidaktiska perspektiv på språk och litteratur. I denna volym presenteras artiklar som bygger på två plenarföreläsningar och ett urval av sektionsföredragen.

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  • 29.
    Folkeryd, Jenny
    et al.
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Education.
    af Geijerstam, Åsa
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Education.
    Enkel/ utvecklad/ välutvecklad elevtext i biologi: Hur bedömer vi det?2014In: Bedömning i svenskämnet årskurs 7-9 / [ed] Gustaf Skar och Michael Tengberg, Stockholm: Natur och kultur, 2014, p. 153-170Chapter in book (Other academic)
  • 30.
    Folkeryd, Jenny W.
    et al.
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Education.
    af Geijerstam, Åsa
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Education.
    Med fokus på elevsvar.: Analys av nollpoängssvar i PIRLS 2011.2013Report (Other academic)
  • 31.
    Folkeryd, Jenny W.
    et al.
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Education.
    af Geijerstam, Åsa
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Education.
    Ämnesinnehåll i en digital undervisningsvärld: Exemplet svenska i lektion.se2013In: Literacy i læringskontekster / [ed] Dagrun Skjelbred och Aslaug Veum, Oslo: Cappelen Damm AS, 2013, p. 212-224Chapter in book (Refereed)
  • 32.
    Folkeryd, Jenny W.
    et al.
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Education.
    af Geijerstam, Åsa
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of Linguistics and Philology.
    Edling, Agnes
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of Linguistics and Philology.
    Textrörlighet - hur elever talar om egna och andras texter.2006In: Det hänger på språket!: Lärande och språkutveckling i grundskolan., Lund: Studenlitteratur , 2006, p. 439-Chapter in book (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
  • 33.
    Folkeryd, Jenny W
    et al.
    Uppsala University, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Curriculum Studies.
    af Geijerstam, Åsa
    Uppsala University, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Curriculum Studies. Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of Linguistics and Philology. Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Education.
    Liberg, Caroline
    Uppsala University, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Curriculum Studies.
    Testing a reading test - Construction of reading comprehension in international reading surveys.2009Conference paper (Other academic)
  • 34.
    Folkeryd, Jenny Wiksten
    et al.
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Education.
    af Geijerstam, Åsa
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Education.
    Formal and informal metalanguage in primary teachers’ talk about informational student texts.2019In: Nordic Journal of Literacy Research, Vol. 5, no 3Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    Previous research has pointed out the importance for teachers as well as students to use metalanguage in order to develop writing in school. Few studies have however focused on how teachers talk about content aspects in young students’ informational texts, using formal (technical) as well as informal (non-technical) metalanguage. The main purpose of the present study is therefore to analyze how primary teachers discuss student texts before and after a series of six professional development workshops.Based on research within a social semiotic perspective, the workshops focused linguistic resources to express and develop ideas, create cohesive texts and interact with an audience. During audio recorded discussions, a group of teachers were asked to comment on strengths and weaknesses in two informational texts written by students in grades 2 and 3. In order to investigate the effect of the subsequent training, the same texts were discussed during the first and the last meeting. The analysis shows no difference in the total number of metalinguistic comments before and after the workshops. However, explicit formal metalanguage replaces informal metalanguage to a significant degree. It is also shown that the informal metalanguage to some extent displayed other affordances than the formal metalanguage.

  • 35.
    Folkeryd, Jenny Wiksten
    et al.
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Education.
    af Geijerstam, Åsa
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Education.
    Liberg, Caroline
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Education.
    Different kinds of wrong: Marginalization processes within a reading test2017In: Marginalization Processes across Different Settings: Going beyond the Mainstream / [ed] Sangeeta Bagga-Gupta, Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017Chapter in book (Other academic)
  • 36.
    Hallesson, Yvonne
    et al.
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of Scandinavian Languages.
    Raattamaa Visén, Pia
    Institutionen för ämnesdidaktik, Stockholms universitet.
    af Geijerstam, Åsa
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Education.
    Folkeryd, Jenny W.
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Education.
    Att introducera och tillgängliggöra ämnesbegrepp i samhällskunskapsundervisning2024In: Nordic Journal of Literacy Research, E-ISSN 2464-1596, Vol. 10, no 1Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    Introducing and Making Subject-Specific Concepts Accessible in Civics Education

    Conceptual understanding is a vital component of subject mastery in civics, yet it can pose challenges for pupils. The purpose of this article is to contribute knowledge on how teachers introduce and make subject-specific concepts accessible in civics education. The data are drawn from classroom observations in six classes in Grades 5 and 8, where teaching has been inspired by different approaches. Analytical focus lies on the introduction and treatment of six concepts, based on the theoretical premise that classroom discussions can serve as a mediating tool facilitating knowledge development and subject participation.

    The findings show that concepts are introduced by the teachers, either starting with the concepts so that they become the starting point of lexical chains where their meaning is then developed, or by working their way to the concepts together with the pupils, which provides different opportunities to navigate between conceptual levels. The accessibility of the concepts is achieved mainly by relating them to subordinate concepts or to words where there is a logical connection and through expansions where the concepts are primarily elaborated through explanations and examples. However, differences are noted between the classes. The article provides insights into how various approaches create conditions for concept acquisition.

  • 37.
    Hallesson, Yvonne
    et al.
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Education.
    Visén, Pia
    Ovanåkers kommun, Edsbyn.
    Folkeryd, Jenny W.
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Education.
    af Geijerstam, Åsa
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Education.
    Reading to learn pedagogy and students' disciplinary reading: An example from social science subjects in years 5 and 122016Conference paper (Refereed)
  • 38.
    Hallesson, Yvonne
    et al.
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Education.
    Visén, Pia
    Linnaeus University, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Department of Swedish Language.
    Wiksten Folkeryd, Jenny
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Education.
    af Geijerstam, Åsa
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Education.
    Four classrooms – four approaches to reading: Examples of disciplinary reading in social science subjects in years five and twelve2018In: L1-Educational Studies in Language and Literature, ISSN 1567-6617, E-ISSN 1573-1731, Vol. 18, p. 1-29Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    In this paper, we aim to explore and exemplify what opportunities to develop disciplinary reading literacy students are given access to in particular types of classroom reading environments in social science subjects. The investigation focuses on how the teacher organizes activities around reading, on what content is approached in text-related discussions and on whose perspectives are allowed space in the classroom discourse. The empirical data consists of classroom observations from two classes in year five and two classes in the Swedish upper secondary school, using different approaches to teaching reading, one being Reading to Learn. With a theoretical base in systemic functional linguistics (SFL), dialogism and reception theory, the classroom discourse was analysed in terms of sequential reading stages, text movability and dialogicality. The findings reveal how differently organized reading environments provide different support structures for students’ disciplinary reading. For example, the findings indicate that text activities that support the reading process in several stages bring about a larger potential for the development of reading literacy. However, the picture changes depending on to what extent students are given room to express their reception of the text, and thereby contribute to an active understanding of text in a dialogical classroom.

  • 39.
    Heimann Muhlenbock, Katarina
    et al.
    Göteborgs universitet.
    Johanssom K., Sofie
    Göteborgs universitet.
    Liberg, Caroline
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Education.
    af Geijerstam, Åsa
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Education.
    Folkeryd, Jenny W.
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Education.
    Jönsson, Arne
    Linköpings universitet.
    Kanebrant, Erik
    Linköpings universitet.
    Falkenjack, Johan
    Linköpings universitet.
    A multivariate model for classifying texts’ readability2015In: Proceedings of the 20th Nordic Conference of Computational Linguistics / [ed] Beáta Megyesi, 2015, p. 257-261Conference paper (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    We report on results from using the multivariate readability model SVIT to classify texts into various levels. We investigate how the language features integrated in the SVIT model can be transformed to values on known criteria like vocabulary, grammatical fluency and propositional knowledge. Such text criteria, sensitive to content, readability and genre in combination with the profile of a student’s reading ability form the base to individually adapted texts. The procedure of levelling texts into different stages of complexity is presented along with results from the first cycle of tests conducted on 8th grade students. The results show that SVIT can be used to classify texts into different complexity levels.

  • 40.
    Heimann Mühlenbock, Katarina
    et al.
    Göteborgs universitet.
    Kanebrant, Erik
    Linköpings universitet.
    Johansson, Sofie K.
    Göteborgs universitet.
    Jönsson, Arne
    Linköpings universitet.
    Liberg, Caroline
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Education.
    af Geijerstam, Åsa
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Education.
    Falkenjack, Johan
    Linköpings universitet.
    Folkeryd, Jenny W.
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Education.
    Studies on automatic assessment of students’ reading ability2014In: Proceedings of the Fifth Swedish Language Technology Conference (SLTC-14), 2014, 2014Conference paper (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    We report results from ongoing research on developing sophisticated measures for assessing a student’s reading ability and a tool for the student and teacher to create a profile of this ability. In the project we will also investigate how these measures can be transformed to values on known criteria like vocabulary, grammatical fluency and so forth, and how these can be used to analyse texts. Such text criteria, sensitive to content, readability and genre in combination with the profile of a student’s reading ability will form the base to individually adapted texts. Techniques and tools will be developed for selecting suitable texts, automatic summarisation of texts and automatic transformation to easy-to-read Swedish.

  • 41. Jonsson, Lisa
    et al.
    Wallin, Pontus
    af Geijerstam, Åsa
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Education.
    Att lära genom att skriva: effekter på elevers ämneskunskaper i NO, SO och matematik2022Report (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
    Abstract [sv]

    I rapporten sammanfattas och kommenteras en internationell forskningsöversikt som visar att skrivande förbättrar elevers ämneskunskaper i NO, SO och matematik, jämfört med undervisning som har mindre fokus på skrivande. Rapporten består dels av en sammanfattning av forskningsöversiktens utgångspunkter, metod och resultat, dels av en kommentar till resultaten utifrån ett svenskt sammanhang. I kommentaren diskuteras även sådant som kan vara bra att tänka på när man som lärare använder skrivande för att förbättra elevers ämneskunskaper.

  • 42.
    Kanebrant, Erik
    et al.
    Linköpings universitet.
    Heimann Mühlenbock, Katarina
    Göteborgs universitet.
    Johansson Kokkinakis, Sofie
    Göteborgs universitet.
    Jönsson, Arne
    Linköpings universitet.
    Liberg, Caroline
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Education.
    af Geijerstam, Åsa
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Education.
    Wiksten Folkeryd, Jenny
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Education.
    Falkenjack, Johan
    Linköpings universitet.
    T-MASTER - A tool for assessing students’ reading abilities2015In: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Computer Supported Education (CSEDU 2015), Lisbon, Portugal, 2015., 2015, p. 220-227Conference paper (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    We present T-MASTER, a tool for assessing students’ reading skills on a variety of dimensions. T-MASTERuses sophisticated measures for assessing a student’s reading comprehension and vocabulary understanding.Texts are selected based on their difficulty using novel readability measures and tests are created based on thetexts. The results are analyzed in T-MASTER, and the numerical results are mapped to textual descriptionsthat describe the student’s reading abilities on the dimensions being analysed. These results are presented tothe teacher in a form that is easily comprehensible, and lends itself to inspection of each individual student’sresults.

  • 43.
    Liberg, Caroline
    et al.
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Education.
    af Geijerstam, Åsa
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Education.
    Med fokus på läsande: Analys av samstämmigheten mellan svenska styrdokument, ämnesprov i svenska och PIRLS 20112012Report (Other academic)
  • 44.
    Liberg, Caroline
    et al.
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Education.
    af Geijerstam, Åsa
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Education.
    Scientific Literacy and Students' Movability in Science Texts.2011In: Exploring the Landscape of Scientific Literacy / [ed] C. Linder, L. Östman, . D.A Roberts, P.O Wickman, G. Erickson and A. MacKinnon, New York/London: Routledge, 2011Chapter in book (Other academic)
  • 45.
    Liberg, Caroline
    et al.
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Education.
    af Geijerstam, Åsa
    Uppsala University, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Curriculum Studies.
    Folkeryd, Jenny
    Uppsala University, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Curriculum Studies.
    Utmana, utforska, utveckla!: Om läs- och skrivprocessen i skolan2010Book (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
    Abstract [sv]

    Läsande och skrivande av olika typer av texter är oerhört betydelsefullt för lärandet i alla skolämnen. När man lär sig något inom ett ämnesområde, innebär det också att man lär sig tala, läsa och skriva på ett nytt sätt. Det är framför allt så man får visa upp den kunskap man erövrat. Man förväntas exempelvis lära sig matematikens, fysikens, historieämnets och idrottsämnets språk. För många elever innebär det att de möter och förväntas gå in i ett för dem helt nytt och okänt sätt att uttrycka sig. Det är ett kulturmöte som för en del inte alltid är helt problemfritt. Frågor om elevers språk-, läs- och skrivutveckling och därmed om deras kunskapsutveckling står med andra ord högt upp på skolans agenda.I den här boken behandlas läs- och skrivundervisningen inom olika ämnesområden i framför allt grundskolans mellanår. I de olika kapitlen ger författarna redskap för att utforska läs- och skrivundervisningens grunder, texter och skrivuppgifter, samtalande, läsande och skrivande samt vilka kunskaper och tidigare läs- och skriverfarenheter eleverna men också lärarna själva har med sig in i skolarbetet. Med hjälp av utforskandet ges läraren möjlighet att utmana och utveckla sin egen undervisning. Boken vänder sig till blivande och verksamma lärare i grundskolan, i synnerhet till dem som arbetar med barn i åldrarna 9-13 år.

  • 46.
    Liberg, Caroline
    et al.
    Uppsala University, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Curriculum Studies.
    af Geijerstam, Åsa
    Uppsala University, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Curriculum Studies.
    Folkeryd, Jenny W.
    Uppsala University, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Curriculum Studies.
    A Linguistic Perspective on Scientific Literacy2007In: Promoting Scientific Literacy: Science Education Research in Transaction : Proceedings of the Linnaeus Tercentenary Symposium held at Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, May 28-29 2007 / [ed] Cedric Linder, Leif Östman & Per-Olof Wickman, Uppsala: Uppsala University , 2007, p. 42-46Conference paper (Refereed)
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  • 47.
    Liberg, Caroline
    et al.
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Education.
    af Geijerstam, Åsa
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Education.
    Folkeryd, Jenny W.
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Education.
    Udfordre, Udforske, Udvikle: Om läse- og skriveprocessen på mellemtrinnet2014Book (Other academic)
  • 48.
    Liberg, Caroline
    et al.
    Uppsala University, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Curriculum Studies. Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Education.
    af Geijerstam, Åsa
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Education.
    Wiksten Folkeryd, Jenny
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Education.
    Bremholm, Jespser
    Hallesson, Yvonne
    Institutionen för språkdidaktik, Stockholms universitet.
    Holtz, Britt Maria
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Education.
    Textrörlighet - ett begrepp i rörelse.2012In: Skriv! Les! 1 / [ed] Synnøve Matre och Atle Skaftun, Trondheim: Akademika forlag, 2012, p. 65-81Conference paper (Refereed)
  • 49.
    Liberg, Caroline
    et al.
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Education.
    Folkeryd, Jenny
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Education.
    af Geijerstam, Åsa
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Education.
    God läsförmåga - hur fångas den?2013In: Literacy - praktiker i och utanför skolan / [ed] Sangeeta Bagga-Gupta, Ann-Carita Evaldsson, Caroline Liberg och Roger Säljö, Malmö: Gleerups Utbildning AB, 2013, p. 87-106Chapter in book (Refereed)
  • 50.
    Liberg, Caroline
    et al.
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Education.
    Folkeryd, Jenny
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Education.
    af Geijerstam, Åsa
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Education.
    Writing Informational Texts in Early School Years – Developing a Meta-Language for Non-Formal Aspects of Text2014Conference paper (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    In the last forty to fifty years, research has been performed, and dynamic discussions have taken place, in the field of mother tongue education in many countries. Limitations of the traditional content of mother tongue education have been highlighted and alternative and more extended ways of talking about teaching and learning in this area have been discussed (Dixon 1975; Cope & Kalantzis 2000; Luke & Freebody 1999; Ivanič 2004; Liberg et al 2012). Motivations for this discussion, as well as discussions concerning other school subjects, have been and still are the changes in society which lead to new demands on education and the educational system. One such demand concerns the rapidly changing media landscape in which everyone is required to successfully navigate in a flood of information expressed in texts of various types. In order to meet these challenges, children must early on in school get the opportunity to develop their ability to understand and compose meaningful written, visual, and spoken texts in different subject areas. A meta-language is also needed in order to analyze, discuss and assess aspects of form as well as of content in narrative and informational texts. However, previous research on and assessment of early reading and writing development has to a large extent focused on formal aspects of reading and writing, such as code breaking, thus excluding important discussions. Such limitations can easily lead to an underestimation or a misjudgment of a student’s literacy abilities. A wider approach in discussing and assessing early reading and writing is necessary to encourage a language development that prepares children for a changing text landscape.

     The main purpose of the study presented in this paper is therefore to further develop ways to study, understand and talk about students’ texts in early school years. More specifically, content-based aspects of informational texts are focused in order to discuss ways that students can expand their repertoire of text-making. At the same time a meta-language is developed in ways that have not previously been done for student writing in early school years. Specific research questions, that in different ways address dimensions of what the text is about, include:

    • What type of content is possible to identify in students’ informational texts (in terms of e.g. dominant disciplinary claims, application to personal experiences and underlying norms and values)?
    • How can the content in the texts be described in terms of participants and processes?
    • How is the content mediated through macro themes and micro themes and how is the content extended?

     The theoretical framework for the study is found within a social semiotic perspective. According to Halliday (1978), the semiotic systems that we live by are considered to form a meaning resource. It is from this meaning resource that we choose when we articulate and structure meaning.  By these choices, certain aspects are put in the background or completely excluded while others are foregrounded and thereby emphasized. In this respect, the selected language forms are highly significant and colored with ideology. The social semiotic perspective provides a well-developed theoretical framework for detailed analyses of different dimensions of meaning-making in students’ texts. In order to further develop the analyses of content-based meaning making in student texts, the described theoretical framework is also combined with perspectives from curriculum studies concerning what has been discussed as different discourses of subject areas or different curriculum emphases (e.g. Ivanič 2004; Roberts & Östman 1998).

    Method

    Data in this study consists of 144 informational texts written on computers by students in grade 2 in two different Swedish schools (students 8-9 year old) at six different occasions. The context for the writing and the assignments given to the students differ. However, such aspects are not foregrounded in the present study. The texts in the study have been analyzed with different analytical methods that capture complementary aspects of text content. In order to approach the first research question, i.e. to investigate text content from a curriculum based perspective, an analytical grid has been developed in interplay with the data and earlier research in this area (e.g. Cope & Kalantzis 2000; Englund 1986; Ivanič 2004; Roberts & Östman 1998). This grid consists of five main aspects of curriculum domains: dominant disciplinary claims, application to personal experiences, application to more general circumstances, perspective/s on the content, underlying norms and values and/or power relations, the design of the future. The second research question is investigated by analyzing process types as formulated in the transitivity analysis in the Systemic Functional paradigm (Halliday & Matthiessen 2004). With this analysis of informational texts we can see patterns of how content is created, i.e. if the text worlds created are worlds of doing, being, talking or sensing. The participants in the text are also analyzed using transitivity analysis. Text participants have in previous research been discussed in terms of specific / generalized, abstract / concrete or if the participants are human or non –human (see e.g Edling 2006; Sellgren 2011.). The third research question is investigated by analyzing content themes on macro as well as micro levels in the texts. Methods used are analysis of rhetorical content structure (see e.g. Hellspong & Ledin 1997) as well as expansion analysis of how clauses (and thereby content) are expanded in various ways (Halliday & Matthiessen 2004; Holmberg & Karlsson 2006). Through these analyses the interplay between themes throughout the text can be described in terms of different content patterns. Although data is drawn from a Swedish school context, the development of analytical methods to analyze text content is applicable to an international arena, independent of languages.

    Expected Outcomes

    Results show that the texts, from a content and curriculum perspective, can be described as falling into four categories. Within these, different patterns of text worlds are noted. Two thirds of the texts can be described as “Encyclopedic”. They resemble texts found encyclopedias where dominant disciplinary claims are focused. Participants in these texts consist of disciplinary concepts such as ‘heart’ or ‘planet’. The processes are mostly realizing text worlds of being through verbs such as ‘be’/’have’. Nearly one third of the texts have a balance between dominant disciplinary claims and more general circumstances with some instances of personal experiences. Participants are often the generalized ‘you’/‘we’, sometimes a personal ‘we’/‘I’ is used. These texts can be described as “Personalized Encyclopedic”. To a large extent, these two types of texts reflect content foregrounded in the teaching. In a few texts however, traces of other curriculum domains are found. Texts include perspectives realized as the contrasting of processes such as what ‘could’ be done/believed or not. Such texts are described as “Encyclopedic with perspectives” and “Encyclopedic with perspectives and designing of future”. Analyses in terms of content patterns (macro and micro themes and expansion of these) indicate that most of the “Personalized Encyclopedic” texts and more than half of the “Encyclopedic” texts express several different themes. However, in nearly two thirds of the analyzed texts, all themes refer to the texts main topic, thus creating coherent content. The other one third consists of fragmentized content patterns. In half of these, themes are expanded on, and in the other half they are not. Research questions are investigated from different analytical perspectives. By combining these analyses, the study shows how a more nuanced picture of content in informational texts can be achieved, thus contributing to a metalanguage of interest for an international arena of education.

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