Christian Waldmann

Linnaeus University | lnu · Department of Swedish

Recent work on Object Shift (OS) suggests that this is not as uniform an operation as traditionally assumed. In this paper, we examine OS in the spontaneous speech of adults in large Danish, Norwegian and Swedish child language corpora in order to explore variation with respect to OS across these three languages. We evaluate our results against thr...

This paper examines rule-based learning and item-based learning in relation to a Swedish child's acquisition of verb second in main clauses. While rule-based accounts assert that young children have access to syntactic structure and acquire a rule of generalized verb second, item-based accounts claim that young children are reproducing frequent wor...

This article examines the acquisition of embedded verb placement in Swedish children, focusing on Neg-V and V-Neg order. It is proposed that a principle of economy of movement creates an overuse of V-Neg order in embedded clauses and that the low frequency of the target-consistent Neg-V order in child-directed speech obstructs children from revisin...

Syftet med föreliggande studie är att analysera digital källhantering i process och produkt i framställningen av en grundlärarstudents examensarbete (15 hp) på avancerad nivå. Materialet har samlats in med hjälp av ett tangentloggningsprogram som har spelat in hela skrivprocessen i Word samt användandet av webbsidor, andra dokument och program på s...

Introduction Self-efficacy for writing (SEW) and reading ability are some of several factors that may be related to the quality of written text that students produce. The aim of the current study was (1) to explore the variation in SEW and written text quality in L1-Swedish and L2-English among upper secondary students with different reading profil...

I denna studie undersöks stavning i årskurs 3 hos en grupp elever som i årskurs 2 hade olika läsprofiler samt relationen mellan elevernas avkodningsförmåga, läsförståelse och stavningsförmåga i årskurs 2 och deras stavning i årskurs 3. Deltagare är 58 elever som med utgångspunkt i the Simple View of Reading (Gough & Tunmer, 1986) fördes till någon...

This paper presents a case study that uses keystroke logging to explore writing fluency and digital source use during an authentic academic writing process in a novice student of data science through the lens of the Simple View of Writing. The study found that the writing of the literature review lasted for 11 hours distributed over 12 sessions. Th...

Writing has been identified as a challenge for students with reading difficulties. This study contributes to previous research by exploring argumentative writing in L1 (Swedish) and L2 (English) in a group of students with reading difficulties in upper secondary school. Participants were 19 students with typical reading, 19 students with poor decod...

Med utgångspunkt i New Literacy Studies syn på skrivande som en social praktik syftar föreliggande studie till att synliggöra ungdomars skrivpraktiker på fritiden. Mer specifikt undersöktes vad ungdomar skriver, i vilka syften de skriver, vilka uppfattningar de har om sitt eget skrivande och hur dessa uppfattningar relaterar till vad och i vilka sy...

Den svenska föreningen för tillämpad språkvetenskap, Association suédoise de linguistique appliquée (ASLA), arbetar för att uppmärksamma och sprida forskning om praktiska problem med anknytning till språk. Under hösten 2020 beslutade ASLA:s styrelse att erbjuda en ny(gammal) publiceringskanal för vetenskapligt granskade studier inom tillämpad språk...

This chapter deals with syntax rules and grammaticality judgments in the teaching and learning of English as a second and foreign language for linguistically diverse learners. Grammaticality judgment tasks are used in linguistic research to probe speakers' implicit knowledge about the syntactic rules of language. This chapter discusses grammaticali...

This chapter considers the language biographies narrated by two female forced migrants from the area of the former Yugoslavia that is now Bosnia. We analyse these to access defining traumatic and agentic moments towards high-level language and literacy skills in Swedish. They arrived, along with many other forced migrants fleeing the Balkan wars, d...

In Chapter 9, Sullivan, Waldmann and Wiklund present a linguistic landscape intervention in a lower primary school in Sweden, a country in which Swedish and its speakers share the linguistic and sociopolitical space with other national languages and their speakers such as the Sámi. Their action research takes an opposite direction of inquiry to tha...

This study investigated patterns of written language and the relation of oral language, phonological processing, verbal working memory and reading to written language in early writers with weak reading and/or spelling in grade 2 (n = 39). In grade 3, the students participated in an assessment of oral and written language. A resolved group with age-...

This chapter deals with syntax rules and grammaticality judgments in the teaching and learning of English as a second and foreign language for linguistically diverse learners. Grammaticality judgment tasks are used in linguistic research to probe speakers' implicit knowledge about the syntactic rules of language. This chapter discusses grammaticali...

I denna studie undersöks textlängd, narrativ kvalitet, lexikal variation och stavning i narrativa texter skrivna i årskurs 3 av elever identifierade med typisk respektive svag avkodning och/eller läsförståelse i en screening i årskurs 2. Deltagare är 16 elever med avkodningssvårigheter, 19 elever med läsförståelsesvårigheter, 12 elever med både avk...

Language learning practices are shaped by their material conditions. Using an action research case study intervention, this chapter shows how the introduction of mobile video chats for children learning a home language creates the material conditions for language engagement and participation practice to emerge that encourage the learning of the hom...

The production of written text is a challenge for many students with language and reading difficulties. Previous research has shown that these students, among other things, produce shorter texts, have a lower lexical variation, use a simpler syntax and make more grammatical errors and spelling errors than students with typical language and reading...

Skriven textproduktion är en utmaning för många elever med språk- och lässvårigheter. Tidigare studier visar att engelskspråkiga elever med språk- och lässvårigheter bl.a. skriver kortare texter, har en lägre lexikal variation, använder en enklare syntax och gör fler grammatiska fel och felstavningar än elever utan språk- och lässvårigheter (t.ex....

This article deals with the usage of Swedish prepositions with cognition verbs. Our main focus is on the usage of the preposition kring 'around'. The study is done within the framework of Cognitive Linguistics, and the notions of trajectory (TR) and landmark (LM) are used to describe the relationships involved. Questions asked are 1. Has the usage...

Den talspråkliga förmågan är en central del av språkförmågan. Den är av avgörande betydelse för barns tänkande och lärande i (för)skolan och ligger till grund för läs- och skrivutvecklingen. Det är därför ett viktigt uppdrag för (för)skolan att stödja alla barn så att de får utveckla sina talspråkliga förmågor. I denna artikel presenteras resultate...