Norwegian Subject Curriculum (NOR1-05)

Competence aims after Year 10

Oral communication

The aims of the training are to enable the apprentice to

• listen to, summarise main content and extract relevant information from spoken texts
• listen to, comprehend and reproduce information from Swedish and Danish
• discuss the form, content and purpose of literature, theatre and films and present interpretative readings and dramatisations
• participate in discussions with reasoned opinions and rational arguments
• present linguistic and multidisciplinary topics using relevant terminology and appropriate digital tools and media
• assess their own oral presentations and those given by others based on technical criteria

Written communication

The aims of the training are to enable the apprentice to

• navigate large volumes of texts on screen and paper in order to identify, combine and evaluate information relevant to the subject
• read and analyse a wide selection of texts in different genres and media in Bokmål and Nynorsk and present possible interpretations
• reproduce the content and identify themes in selected texts in Swedish and Danish
• write different types of text using patterns from sample texts and other sources
• recognise the devices of humour, irony, contrasts and comparisons, symbols and metaphors and use some of them in their own texts
• plan, create and refine own texts manually and digitally and evaluate them along the way by applying their knowledge of language and texts
• express themselves using a varied vocabulary and master morphology, orthography and cohesion
• write creative, informative, reflective and persuasive texts in Bokmål and Nynorsk using rational arguments and adapted to a given recipient, purpose and medium
• integrate, cite and quote relevant sources in a verifiable way where appropriate

Language, literature and culture

The aims of the training are to enable the apprentice to

• recognise rhetorical appeals and methods of persuasion
• discuss how language can be perceived as discriminatory and intimidating
• give an account of some characteristics of common vernaculars in Norway and discuss attitudes towards different vernaculars and towards the written language forms Nynorsk and Bokmål
• master grammatical terminology describing how the language is constructed
• use grammatical terms to compare Nynorsk and Bokmål
• explain the reasons why there are two equal language forms and give an account of the language debate and linguistic variations in Norway in the present day
• give an account of the prevalence of the Sami languages and of Sami language rights in Norway
• present themes and modes of expression in a selection of key contemporary texts and some classical texts in Norwegian literature
• give examples of and comment on how society, values and ways of thinking are portrayed in texts translated from Sami and other languages
• describe the interaction between aesthetic devices in composite texts and reflect on how we are influenced by sound, language and images
• present the results of in-depth study into two own-choice topics: an authorship, a literary topic or a linguistic topic, and justify the choice of texts and topic
• explain and adopt fundamental principles of data protection and copyright when publishing and using texts