LU2-NOR315 Norwegian 2a 5-10

Contents and structure

The content of 2A is about speech and writing, development from an oral to a written text culture and school and subject history. Central to the course is the link between language and text, historical and contemporary. The students will develop extensive, research-based insight into how the language has developed and continues to develop. There will be emphasis on the theory of literature, textual history, language history and the history of children's literature. The two main didactic areas are verbal communication and the further teaching of reading. The cultural concept is central, and work with text is aimed at training in analytical and critical reading. There will be emphasis on practical work including trials of methods for teaching reading skills. The students must complete an independent study on a linguistic or literary didactic subject.

Academic content Norwegian 2A, specification of topics:

• Speech and writing, verbal and written culture
• Language in a historical perspective and linguistic standardisation
• Fiction and non-fiction from a historical perspective
• Text reading and text communication
• The basic reading and oral skills
• Work with a linguistic or literary didactic specialist syllabus

Learning Outcome

- knowledge:

The student

• has knowledge of the difference between speech and writing, and what characterises the oral and written culture.
• has knowledge of what function reading and writing has had and still has in our culture, and of school and subject history.
• has knowledge of fiction and non-fiction for children and adults in a historical perspective.
• has knowledge of different theoretical perspectives and approaches in the work of understanding literature
• has knowledge of further reading skills teaching, reading strategies and reading methods
• has knowledge of the basic skills, oral communication and reading in Norwegian and in other subjects
• has knowledge of the history of language and historical and contemporary linguistic change processes
• has knowledge of standardisation of Norwegian bokmål and Norwegian nynorsk from the 1800s until the present

 

- skills:

The student

• masters the skill of reading, analysis, interpretation and comparison of texts written for children, young people and adults with regard to content, form and function, viewed from a historical perspective and placed in a larger cultural and public context
• can analyse texts with regard to linguistic aspects tied to historical change processes and the standardisation of the written language.
• has extensive insight into how children and young people are motivated to read and further develop their reading comprehension and  use of reading strategies
• can guide and assess  the pupils' production of oral texts
• can use, and guide pupils in the use of, academic literary source material
• is able to use the curriculum in the subject to formulate objectives for Norwegian teaching and relevant assessment criteria and can assess the emphasis on the history of language in the curriculum and teaching work and prepare lessons in language subjects

 

- general competence:

The student

• is able to assess Norwegian as a subject and his or her own practice as a Norwegian teacher and justify the assessments
• has insight into Norwegian as a subject, based on research and in relation to the subject history and is able to reflect critically and constructively, based on such perspectives of the subject
• is able to guide pupils in work with texts so that they can develop themselves, obtain knowledge and prepare for active participation in public spaces and society as a whole
• is able to view the subject in a wider self-cultivation perspective and the teaching as part of the training for an active participatory democracy

Entry requirements

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Recommended previous knowledge

Norwegian 1

Teaching methods

Classroom teaching: teacher-led with student activities. Presentations and seminar presentations, oral and written assignments, individual and in groups. Text creation and assessment

Mandatory lessons 80%

Compulsory learning activities

Approved mandatory assignments.

Assessment

Written exam and project

Examination support material

Written exam no aid, portfolio all aid

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