Högstadielärares läsförståelseundervisning : Fyra svensklärares uppfattning och undervisning om läsförståelse i årskurs 7–9

Sammanfattning: This study highlights and raise the question regarding how Swedish language teachers teach reading comprehension. The study presents the results of four interviews conducted with four different Swedish language teachers from the grades 7-9. Starting in previous research and current theories about reading, interaction and teaching, the subject focus on the problem from a teacher’s perspective. The study is based on a qualitative research with focus on qualitative and semi structure interviews as a choice of method. The purpose of this study is to highlight how Swedish language teachers perceive their own reading comprehension teaching and how they teach their pupils in reading comprehension. The result does not represent how teachers in general teaches pupils in reading comprehension. It shows the experience, the perception and the view of four Swedish language teachers on reading comprehension. Abilities such as analyze, read between the lines and interpret different text types are components which all of the asked teachers are highlighting as important factors to make pupils develop good reading comprehension. The four Swedish language teachers in this study also mean that the decoding ability is a big deal in this context. The Swedish language teachers reading comprehension teaching in educational environments are exemplified by discussions and dialogues in the classroom through social interaction, different kinds of aloud reading, strategies of reading between the lines, teaching of different kinds of reading strategies through model learning.