Perspectivas de estudiantes universitarios suecos sobre la lectura de La ciudad y los perros : Un proyecto de diarios de lectura
(2025) In Moderna Språk 119(2). p.81-102- Abstract
- Reading Mario Vargas Llosa's The time of the hero is a challenge for Swedish university students of Spanish as a foreign language, but despite this, course evaluations have shown that they tend to value the experience. This study focuses on exploring the students’ reading process and their reactions to the text through a reading log project. The categories of recognition, knowledge, enchantment and shock proposed by Felski (2008) were applied to analyse the students' responses. The analysis indicates that the students’ preferred way to check their understanding and interpretation of the literary text was to discuss the reading with their peers. It also indicates that, despite the linguistic difficulties, the participants experienced a... (More)
- Reading Mario Vargas Llosa's The time of the hero is a challenge for Swedish university students of Spanish as a foreign language, but despite this, course evaluations have shown that they tend to value the experience. This study focuses on exploring the students’ reading process and their reactions to the text through a reading log project. The categories of recognition, knowledge, enchantment and shock proposed by Felski (2008) were applied to analyse the students' responses. The analysis indicates that the students’ preferred way to check their understanding and interpretation of the literary text was to discuss the reading with their peers. It also indicates that, despite the linguistic difficulties, the participants experienced a complex aesthetic response, reacting intensely to the characters and often shocking situations in the novel. However, the main motivator in play in the reading process seems to have been the desire to reconstruct a coherent story from the narrative fragments, filling in the gaps to solve the central enigma of the plot. This reconstruction was greatly aided by reading together, and one of the conclusions of the study is that it is beneficial to think of reading as a collective act. (Less)
- Abstract (Swedish)
- Att läsa Mario Vargas Llosas Staden och hundarna är en utmaning för svenska universitetsstudenter som läser spanska som främmande språk, men trots detta visar kursutvärderingar att de tenderar att uppskatta upplevelsen. Denna studie fokuserar på att utforska studenternas läsprocess och deras reaktioner på texten genom ett läsloggprojekt.
Felskis (2008) kategorier igenkänning, kunskap, förtrollning och chock användes för att analysera studenternas svar. Analysen visar att det sätt som studenterna föredrog för att kontrollera sin förståelse och tolkning av den litterära texten var att diskutera läsningen med sina kamrater. Den visar också att deltagarna, trots de språkliga svårigheterna, upplevde en komplex estetisk respons och... (More) - Att läsa Mario Vargas Llosas Staden och hundarna är en utmaning för svenska universitetsstudenter som läser spanska som främmande språk, men trots detta visar kursutvärderingar att de tenderar att uppskatta upplevelsen. Denna studie fokuserar på att utforska studenternas läsprocess och deras reaktioner på texten genom ett läsloggprojekt.
Felskis (2008) kategorier igenkänning, kunskap, förtrollning och chock användes för att analysera studenternas svar. Analysen visar att det sätt som studenterna föredrog för att kontrollera sin förståelse och tolkning av den litterära texten var att diskutera läsningen med sina kamrater. Den visar också att deltagarna, trots de språkliga svårigheterna, upplevde en komplex estetisk respons och reagerade intensivt på romanens karaktärer och ofta chockerande situationer. Den främsta motivationen i läsprocessen verkar dock ha varit önskan att rekonstruera en sammanhängande berättelse genom att fylla i luckor och sammanfoga fragment. Denna rekonstruktion underlättades avsevärt av att man läste tillsammans, och att läsningen därmed snarast var att betrakta som en kollektiv handling.
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- Johansson, Ingela LU
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- alternative title
- Svenska universitetsstudenters syn läsning av La ciudad y los perros : Ett projekt med läsloggar
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- 2025-10-17
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- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- reading log, emotions, Rita Felski, literary studies, The time of the hero
- in
- Moderna Språk
- volume
- 119
- issue
- 2
- pages
- 22 pages
- publisher
- Lärarna i moderna språk
- ISSN
- 2000-3560
- DOI
- 10.58221/mosp.v119i2.18769
- language
- Spanish
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