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Studien bidrar med kunskap om funktionella aspekter av vuxna andraspråkselevers arbete med skrivrespons och argumenterande texter. Den genomfördes inom grundläggande vuxenutbildning, en svagt representerad skolform i skrivdidaktisk forskning. Materialet består av inspelade responssamtal i mindre grupper samt de elevtexter som låg till grund för samtalen. Studien synliggör vilka aspekter i texterna som eleverna fokuserar på i samtalen och vilka aspekter som skulle behöva stärkas i argumentationen. I analysen används systemisk-funktionell genreteori. Resultatet visar att eleverna identifierade utvecklingsområden i texter baserat på den genrestruktur undervisningen hade utgått ifrån. Samtidigt hade eleverna hade eleverna svårt att identifiera vad som krävdes för att genrestrukturen skulle byggas ut på ett fungerande sätt. Studien ger teoretiska redskap för att synliggöra språkliga mönster på lokal textnivå för att stödja andraspråkselevers skrivutveckling. ENGLISH: ”Lots of things are missing”: Genre-theoretical perspectives on adult second-language students working with feedback and argumentative texts. The article contributes knowledge about functional aspects of adult second-language students working with writing feedback and argumentative texts. It was conducted in basic adult education, which is underrepresented in writing pedagogy research. The material consists of recorded feedback discussions in small groups and the student texts the discussions were based on. The study highlights the aspects of text the students focused on in the discussions and the aspects that could further strengthen the argumentation. In the analysis, systemic-functional genre theory is used. The result shows that the students identified areas of improvement based on the genre structure the teaching had focused on. However, the students had difficulties in identifying how the genre structure could be developed in a functional way. The study gives theoretical tools to highlight patterns of language on a local text level to support second-language students writing development. Keywords: Adult learners, Second language writing, Feedback, Peer response, Genre-based teaching, Systemic functional linguistics

This article responds to the need of further qualitative insight into teachers’ supporting students’ factual reading by introducing reading strategies. Inspired by ethnographic methods and action research, the material of the study consists of observations and audio recordings (20 lesson) of teaching in Grade 4 which integrated the subjects Swedish and Science (Physics and Biology). The analysis is mainly based on Langer’s stances for building knowledge in academic disciplines and a social-semiotic perspective inspired by Macken-Horarik’s knowledge domains. The findings show that the classroom interaction involved considerable attention to both the features of the disciplinary texts, verbal as well as visual, and the process of reading. The reading practice allowed the students to share previous experiences and discover a need for new information. However, the teacher and the students largely relied on informal metalanguage and foregrounded connections to everyday experience, rather than using a more elaborate metalanguage to explore how knowledge is construed from the perspective of physics and biology. Implications for teaching reading strategies in ways which promote students’ engagement with disciplinary content are discussed.

Exploring spoken interaction in the teaching of texts and content knowledge to linguistically diverse Grade 6 students, this article responds to the need of a more nuanced understanding of how different patterns of interaction function in knowledge-building classroom practices. The study is based on observations and transcriptions of recorded classroom interaction in different school subjects. The analysis is based on theoretical frameworks of communicative approaches, knowledge domains and discursive mobility. The result shows how patterns of classroom interaction are connected to important functions, such as building up prior knowledge, reminding students of key disciplinary concepts, reinforcing meanings in disciplinary texts, problematizing different aspects of how subject content is represented and enabling the diverse students to connect the subject content to personal experiences and process it with innovative use of the target language. The result also shows that movements towards a disciplinary discourse can be promoted by grounding the interaction in written texts and hindered by less functional use of everyday language.

The aim of this article is to examine how the discourse of formative assessment is perpetuated and transformed in a Facebook group where teachers and other agents meet for discussions and to share advice about teaching methods. Drawing on concepts from critical discourse analysis (Fairclough 1993), the study shows how teachers position themselves as successful and devout practitioners of formative assessment, while perpetuating central concepts such as self-regulation and peer assessment. Additionally, the results show how teachers’ voices intermingle with private actors seeking to align formative ideals with requirements for certain goods and services. In light of these findings, the relation between formative discourse and discourses of marketization and performativity seems dialectic rather than oppositional. It is proposed that the resulting interdiscursive mix pushes teachers towards adopting market-­oriented identities, foregrounding not only the assessable behaviors of students but also those of their teachers.