About the project
The project “MULTIWRITE – Interactions Between First, Second and Third Languages” investigates students' writing development, feedback from the teachers and teacher collaboration across language subjects.
Writing development in the first, second and third language
The project group are in the process of collecting and analysing the texts that a sample of 90 students write in Norwegian, English and one of the third languages French, German and Spanish over the course of their first year of upper secondary school.
This will yield a collection of around 1600 texts which will be investigated in order to find out how the students build their sentences and texts, and how their three languages interact and influence each other over time.
Feedback from the teachers
The teachers’ comments on the texts will be analysed with respect to both content and form. The purpose is to generate new knowledge about what teachers find important when giving feedback, and about similarities and differences in the way that language and writing are described across the language subjects.
The project will also investigate to what extent the feedback can help students to transfer knowledge across languages, and whether students actually use feedback when they write new texts.
Collaboration across language subjects
In the final phase of the project, the insights gained from the text analyses will be brought back to the language teachers in upper secondary school. In cooperation with them, the project group will try out different kinds of cross-curricular collaboration.
This exploratory part of the project will result in a model showing how cross-curricular collaboration can contribute to better writing instruction in the language subjects.
Financing
The Research Council of Norway, NFR-code: 324962
Duration
01.12.21-30.11.25.