Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed : En litteraturstudie om hur arbete med sång, rim och ramsor kan främja barns utveckling av engelska som främmande språk i grundskolans tidigare år.

Syftet med litteraturstudien är att undersöka hur arbete med sång, rim och ramsor kan främja yngre elevers språkutveckling i engelska som främmande språk. Detta görs genom att fokusera på främjandet av barns språkinlärning, hur lärare bör arbeta med sång, rim och ramsor inom engelska som främmande språk, samt lärares attityder till ett sådant arbetssätt. Arbetet genomfördes som en systematisk litteraturstudie innehållande en bakgrund med relevant teori, samt analys av fem vetenskapliga studier rörande ämnet. Dessa gav möjlighet till en bred bild av området, då länder och perspektiv varierade. Studierna valdes ut genom sökning i databaser efter relevans och tillförlitlighet. I studiernas resultat framgick att majoriteten av tillfrågade lärare och elever var positivt inställda till arbete med sång och ramsor i engelskundervisning, och den språkutveckling dessa metoder innebar. Genom arbete med läraren som förebild motiverades eleverna. Dock fanns en avsaknad av material och kunskap för att kunna genomföra och bedöma undervisning innehållande sång och ramsor. En avsaknad av rim i de studier som analyserats berörs även i studien, likaså en brist på svenska studier. Sammanfattningsvis verkar sång och ramsor enligt de granskade studierna ha ett värde i engelskundervisning. Dock finns det behov av mer forskning och kunskap för att få starkare underlag för användning av dessa metoder i undervisning.

Sports and mediatization : a case of women´s ski-jumping

Ski jumping was the only sport included in the Winter Olympics, where women were not allowed to take part until the first week of April 2011, when IOC decided to let them in to the Olympic family, a major victory for women´s ski-jumping. Since 2004 the Norwegian media had women ski jumping as one important topic in their media coverage. The third of March 2010 the new Holmenkollen ski-jumping hill was inaugurated. It had been rebuilt for the World Championships 2011. The first jump on the hill was surrounded by an intense debate. Annette Sagen was decided to be the first jumper on the hill after a poll on the social media channel Facebook that gave Annette Sagen over 40 000 votes.  However Tuesday the second of March Björn Einar Romören, a world cup jumper, did the first jump during a training session. This act started a significant chain of events. The biggest Norwegian web – magazines Verldens Gang and Aftenposten made this the head story and they invited the readers to interaction. Within 24 hours 11 000 comments were written, most of them in favor of Sagen and against Romören´s behavior. The Norwegian Ski Association excluded Romören from two World Cup competitions. What did happen during these days in the media?  I want to present the activities, which went on in two web-magazines, and analyze the articles written on the topic. Main issues are to show what an impact a social media network had on the sport in this specific case and how different actors appeared in the media and discuss if Romörens exclusion was a result of the mediatization.

A new Home, far from Home : The assimilation process of women involved in intercultural marriages based on Internet meeting

The internet has revolutionized the way we socialize, and as a consequence the way to love. The new communication technologies have facilitated intercultural relationships. Nowadays family relations are one of the major factors in immigration to European countries. Family relations means persons who arrive as family dependents and in accordance with laws regulating family reunification. This thesis aims to apply the classical assimilation theory stated by Milton Gordon (1964), which formulates a series of assimilation stages through which an individual must pass in order to be completely assimilated. In accordance with this theory, marriage is the final phase for a newcomer to fully incorporate into the host society. Thus, based on this presumption and other contemporary theories, the present study has analysed how women who get involved in intercultural marriages based on internet meeting experience these assimilation stages and evaluated the resources used by respondents to incorporate themselves into Swedish society.The main goal of the study was to determine if jumping to the last stage of assimilation does assure the incorporation in the social or/and labour spheres and the findings demonstrate that even though husbands are a valuable resource for assimilation, several cultural issues in Swedish society make it difficult to assure success for the newcomers.On the other hand, Sweden is a country with a strong national sentiment and the assimilation of immigrants still is an important issue to deal with. The Swedish Integration Board has disappeared and major projects for integration have been left in the hands of the municipalities or the Migration Board, institutions that still do not know how to deal with this dilemma.

"Vos sos la mujer araña, que atrapa a los hombres en su tela" : La construcción de la identidad feminina en El beso de la Mujer araña, de Manuel Puig.

La novela El beso de la mujer araña del escritor argentino Manuel Puig es una novela que trata dedos presos en una cárcel bonaerense durante la dictadura militar argentina. Esta tesina se centrará enla identidad femenina de Molina. El objetivo de esta tesina es examinar la celebración de lafemineidad de Molina, y su construcción de una identidad femenina. Esta identidad se conectarácon la idea de la identidad femenina como socialmente construida, opuesto a la noción de génerocomo algo innato. Es decir, la identidad femenina de Molina y sus ideas de lo femeninocorresponden a la idea de la identidad femenina como socialmente construida. Apoyándonos enteoría feminista y teoría queer, estableceremos la conexión que existe entre la identidad femeninacomo la ve Molina, y la identidad femenina como construcción social.