Att sätta ord på orden : En studie kring elevers uppfattning om ordinlärning

Sammanfattning: The purpose of this study is to understand how students in year 4, 5 and 6 describe their learning of new words. This study uses a qualitative method based on interviews with students, who have linguistic vulnerabilities, describing their thoughts about learning new words. The results have been analyzed from the students’ perspective and through four themes. The themes are students’ learning of new words, words depth and breadth, the teaching of new words and reading and reading comprehension. The study shows that from the students’ perspective, teachers have an important part in their vocabulary development. Based on the students’ descriptions, teachers mainly describe new words orally. Furthermore, the results show that the students had problems with words that are characteristic of the written language and important for reading comprehension, also known as level 2 words. There were only few words that the students had a deeper understanding and could give a correct definition of. The results implies that teaches need to adapt and develop their vocabulary teaching to give students a greater vocabulary depth and breadth.