Kan du läsa högt för mig? : En stuide om högläsningsstunden i förskoleklass genom observationer och intervjuer.

Sammanfattning: The purpose of the study is to examine the social interaction between teachers and children during oral reading activity in a preschool class. The focus in this study is on how the teacher communicates with the children during oral reading to get them involved in the story. Furthermore, the aim is to investigate what teachers believe that reading aloud can mean for the children. A qualitative method with a socio-cultural perspective based on three methods have been used to study the limited phenomenon, reading aloud. Two different observations in three preschool classes and four interviews with teachers have been implemented. The number of participating children is 54. The interviews were audio recorded. The empirical data was analyzed by a frequency table, conversation analysis and content analysis. These three data collection methods, increases the study's credibility. The result: interaction between teachers and children occurs in all three preschool classes. Teachers explain difficult words and ask several questions during the oral reading moments. The result of the study shows that teachers explains the oral reading activity as a part of the children 's language development and not least for the multilingual children. The four teachers consider oral reading as a social activity, where learning takes place in interaction with others, children develop their vocabulary, letter knowledge and imagination through the activity.