Haasärämärä : En kvalitativ studie om värmländska lärare och lärarstudenters attityder och förhållningssätt till talspråkliga varieteter i undervisning

Sammanfattning: The aim of this study is to investigate teachers’ attitudes and approaches to linguistic varieties in teaching and also to find out how they are represented in the classroom. The study was made from a sociolinguistic perspective. The study includes the methods, interviews and observations. The methods are used to investigate attitudes towards and teachers‘ approach to different varieties in the language. Furthermore the aim is to create an image of how the language varieties takes expression in teaching situations. The results of the study proves a mostly positive attitudes towards varieties in spoken language. The study also shows occasions when the varieties are seen as something negative, and some occasions where the correct way of using language are more preferably. A part of this study was to investigate different generations perspective of spoken language, which is presented and discussed. The outcome was something else then the hypothesis. The respondents of this investigation are connecting the concepts “youth language” and “bad language”. They also emphasizes that swearing is increasing in school. However, they point out, that the early years of primary school is relatively liberated from the bad language and that an increase occurs at the transition to middle school. The study also includes how teachers are working with language switching and appreciation of different variates.