| dc.description.abstract | How pupils are to learn a second or a foreign language, especially grammatical elements, has
been much debated the last couple of decades. This study is a qualitative analysis of teaching
materials published between 1966 and 2007, used when teaching English in Swedish schools.
The focus is on grammar exercises and the grammatical element relative pronouns. The
exercises devoted to relative pronouns are analysed and contrasted in connection with the
steering documents published in the early sixties (Lgr -60), the early eighties (Lgr -80) and
the ones used today (Lpo -94). Results in short show that the exercises look roughly the same
with introductory example sentences and so called fill-in-the-gaps exercises. The teaching
materials, except one, use an inductive approach to grammar and the closer we get to the new
millennium the more contrastive the exercises and explanations get. | en |
