Att undervisa om berättande texter : Hur man kan arbeta med genrepedagogik med fokus på berättande texter

Sammanfattning: The intention of my research is to increase understanding of what teaching with genre pedagogy, with focus on narrative texts, can look like. Through previous research and literature, I describe the emergence of genre pedagogy, why genre pedagogy is used, what a narrative text is and how it can be evaluated. The empirical material of the study consists of qualitative research interviews with teachers, as well as document analyses of the teachers’ educational plans with the purpose to gain a broader view of teaching with narrative texts. I have deliberately chosen the school I carried out my survey on. From my own experience, I know that this school work with genre pedagogy, which made it easier for me and the teachers as they knew the concepts, methods and terminology behind my questions. The results of the survey show that genre pedagogy promotes students’ learning, regardless of whether teachers choose to follow the structured circle model or focus on the creative personal writing. Both former researches and my teacher informants believe that the genre pedagogical teaching helps the students’ to develop subject language and their strategies for reading and writing texts in different genres. Nevertheless, as the results display, extra support is sometimes needed to further enhance students’ writing performance. The result also shows that the assessment of narrative texts usually has the best effect if it is written and formative.