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Sturk, Erika – Written Communication, 2023
This study explored disciplinary writing in grades 4-6 and the potential of writing to learn and learning to write across the curriculum to prepare the pupils for their future writing. Using Ivanic's discourses of writing as an analytical framework, observation protocols from 104 observers in 374 lessons in 76 Swedish schools were analyzed…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Writing Instruction, Curriculum Design, Foreign Countries
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Olsson, Anna; Sheridan, Vera – Written Communication, 2012
This empirical study surveyed academic staff at a Swedish university about their experiences and perceptions of the use of English in their academic fields. The objective was to examine how the influence of English in disciplinary domains might affect the viability of Swedish in the academic sphere and to investigate how it might disadvantage…
Descriptors: Social Sciences, Content Analysis, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Karlsson, Anna-Malin – Written Communication, 2009
In the research project Literacy Practices in Working Life, the role played by reading and writing in common nonacademic occupations in Sweden was investigated. The results highlight not only some typical ways of using writing to frame units of work but also differences reflecting the main focus of work ("people" or "things")…
Descriptors: Occupations, Foreign Countries, Literacy, Research Projects