Känslan av ett modersmål : En jämförande studie av svenska och franska gymnasieelevers relation till sitt förstaspråk

• Main Author: Sjöberg, Maria
• Format: Others
• Language: Swedish
• Published: Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för utbildningsvetenskap (UV) 2017
• Subjects: Mother tongue; Swedish; French; high school; society; history; education; modersmål; svenska; franska; gymnasiet; samhälle; historia; skola; Humanities and the Arts; Humaniora och konst
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-65486

The aim of this study is to investigate how Swedish and French high school pupils relateto their respective mother tongues. It is a comparative study that seeks to examine thisrelationship from three perspectives: individual, society and history. An additionaloverall perspective in the study is school. The theoretical foundation for the studyconsists of earlier research on the topic and official steering documents for the subjectof Swedish in Swedish high school and corresponding texts about the subject of Frenchin French high school. In-depth interviews have been conducted with two Swedish andtwo French high school pupils. The study shows that the mother tongue is of greatsignificance for personal development and self-esteem for pupils in both countries. Theoutlook on language and society and language and history is more complex and theinformants’ answers show greater variation. Two different attitudes to education andlearning emerge. An important conclusion of the study is that the difference noted in theoutlook on language and society in the steering documents is also found in the highschool pupils’ discourses.