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Gudrun Svensson
(9) Teacher what are you thinking of # what does it look like
(10) Zenya well it’s xxx like silver # and then it’s like a round circle
(11) Teacher 2: maybe you mean a strainer like the one you pour tea into
(12) Zenya: yees
(13) Teacher: oh
(14) Teacher 2: oh
(15) Teacher: a strainer # a tea strainer # oh it isn’t that # but you started
well # but silhouette is something else # I’ll show you a
silhouette of # a dog’s head
Zenya is thus praised for making an association with the sound of the word sil (Swedish
for “strainer”), but her suggestion is neither followed up nor further developed;
instead, the teacher draws a silhouette with a round head and two big round ears.
She laughs at her picture and says that it is a dog’s head and some pupils join her in
laughing, and someone says er. In the next sequence (see below), the teacher goes on
drawing and the pupils guess that a silhouette means that you draw or copy something
on a board or that it is something black. The teacher offers different explanations, but
no one seems to understand. On the contrary, for Alin the confusion seems to grow
because she does not even understand the words the teacher uses when explaining.
Sequence 2. Discussion of the word silhouette. All answers are rejected, no one is praised
(16) Teacher: the silhouette of a dog’s head # now I’ll draw a silhouette of an
apple # what’s a silhouette # Maiza
(17) Maiza: you draw something
(18) Teacher: no # this one
(19) Iasmin: you draw something on the board
(20) Teacher well it doesn’t have to be that
(21) Maiza: you copy something you are thinking of like thinking that I’m
drawing this so then I’ll draw this eh #
(22) Teacher you just draw the actual form # what it looks like # an apple #
how easy it can be # now this was a bit slovenly
(23) Someone giggles
(24) Elmedin: black
(25) Teacher: what # apples aren’t black, are they
(26) Elmedin no
(27) Teacher: no # but silhouettes you can see that they only have black # if
someone is standing behind a curtain that is a bit transparent
(28) Alin: how do you see transparent
(29) Teacher: then you can see the silhouette through # you don’t exactly
see clearly but you just see the form of whoever is standing
behind the curtain # you see
(30) Zanna: no not quite
(31) Teacher: this pen was no good
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