"Jag säger ju enn, men jag skriver en" : En undersökning om dialektanvändning i tal och skrift i en värmländsk årskurs tre

Sammanfattning: This essay aims to explore the dialect use in speech and writing in different school contexts among pupils in grade three in Värmland, Sweden and their teacher’s attitude to dialect usage in the classroom. The methods used for the survey are structured observations, collected documents and qualitative semi- structured interviews with both pupils and their teacher. The purpose of using three different methods is to get as complete a survey and credible result as possible as the methods in this case complement each other in an advantageous way. The result shows that a majority of the participating pupils use their dialect in most of the different speech situation with the exception of oral presentations and presentation of today´s date and lunch during morning assemblies. In these situation the dialect is often modified. As for the pupils´ writing in dialect, the result shows, however, that it seldom occurs at all. The pupils generally do not see themselves as dialect speakers while their teacher argues that everyone in the class speaks the local dialect. Furthermore, the results of the teacher interview shows that the teacher is sympathetic to the use of dialect in general and sees no problem with dialect in speech, but does not accept dialect use in school writing.