Läroböcker i kinesiska och deras koppling till det centrala innehållet i kursplanen : Ett designteoretiskt perspektiv

Sammanfattning: Since 2014 Chinese, as the only non-European language, has a separate syllabus within the syllabus of the subject Modern languages. Before that, teachers of Chinese had to rely on other sources in planning their teaching, because the syllabus of Modern languages simply was not adjusted to a language as different as Chinese. Some teachers relied on textbooks. The only two textbooks in Chinese that were produced in Sweden, for teaching in primary and secondary school, were both produced before the syllabus was established. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate to what extent the textbooks corresponded to the core content of the syllabus and how teachers of Chinese used the textbooks together with other teaching material. Two methods were used. First a comparison was made of the books and the syllabus, and secondly four teachers of Chinese were interviewed. Results from the two methods coincided and showed that to fulfill the goals in the syllabus, the textbooks were not enough. They mainly lacked enough assignments for listening and speaking comprehension, especially to be able to follow the stipulated pace in which the reading and the speaking skills are supposed to be learnt.