"...same feila gong på gong!" Rettskrivingsavvik i Noreg og på Island

This master's thesis is a study about the view and practise of orthography in Norway and Iceland, a topic which has not been widely researched. This is a comparative study based on three topics: - relevant curricula in Norway and Iceland - what a selection of teachers think about the importance of orthography - the frequency and types of errors in six schools in the two countries As there are two written languages in Norway, we have chosen to base our study on nynorsk. The main research question in our study is: To what extent is orthography emphasized in Norway and Iceland? We have close-read the curricula from the two countries, and studied what they emphasize. In the study of teacher attitudes we have chosen a qualitative approach with semi-structured interviews. We have interviewed four Norwegian and four Icelandic teachers. In order to increase the breadth in our study, we have studied two schools in Norway and four in Iceland. These schools represent city and countryside in both countries. The material for the study of pupil's texts is 201 texts from 10th grade. We have used the quantitative method of excerption: a systematic close reading of the texts and extraction of errors. Emphasis has been laid on the most common types of errors, such as consonantism, vowelism, division of words and the use of capital and lower-case letters. Our study shows that orthography has a higher priority in Iceland, than in Norway. The Icelandic curriculum has a stronger emphasis on orthography than the Norwegian one. The Icelandic teachers are in addition spending much more time on orthography in their teaching, than the Norwegian ones. The study also shows that the Norwegian pupils are making more errors than the Icelandic ones. It appears that the majority of mistakes in Norway are errors linked to consonantism. In Iceland the most common type of mistake is wrong use of capital and lower-case letters