Search for dissertations about: "Classroom talk"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 25 swedish dissertations containing the words Classroom talk.
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1. Swedish as multiparty work : Tailoring talk in a second language classroom
Abstract : This dissertation examines classroom conversations involving refugee and immigrant youth in a second language (L2) introduction program, exploring how L2 Swedish emerges as a multiparty accomplishment by both the teacher and the students. Drawing on forty hours of video-recorded Swedish L2 classroom conversations, as well as on observations and informal interviews, it focuses on talk as a form of social action. READ MORE
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2. Mathematics classroom talk in a migrating world : synthesizing epistemological dimensions
Abstract : This thesis is an expedition into and beyond students’ mathematics talk in classrooms framed by migration as a matter of dichotomization betweennamed languages and (in)formal aspects of one fixed mathematics. It is an attempt to make sense of how students grapple with and move about thedivides that those dichotomizations shapes. READ MORE
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3. Teaching genetics - a linguistic challenge : A classroom study of secondary teachers' talk about genes, traits and proteins
Abstract : The overall aim of this thesis is to investigate how teachers talk about genetics in actual classroom situations. An understanding of how language is used in action can give detailed information about how the subject matter is presented to the students as well as insights in linguistic challenges. READ MORE
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4. Framing Education : Doing Comics Literacy in the Classroom
Abstract : Interest in comics as Swedish school material has risen in the last few years and the publication of comics for children and adolescents has also increased. Meanwhile, although research around new literacies has taken an interest in combinations of image and text, there is still little research on comics as a literacy material, especially as part of school practices. READ MORE
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5. Auto Mechanics in English : Language Use and Classroom Identity Work
Abstract : This is a compilation thesis consisting of three different articles with the purpose to explore the relationships between language practices, identity construction and learning in the context of the Vehicle Program, a vocational program in Swedish upper secondary schools. A feature of the particular setting studied here that sets it apart from the general education of auto mechanics in Sweden is that it was carried out in English. READ MORE