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Memet Aktürk-Drake – Language Policy, 2024
This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the motivations that key policy documents have put forward as justifications for Sweden's mother-tongue instruction in immigrant and historical minority languages as a multicultural policy that has endured for nearly half a century. The diachronic development of these motivations is analysed in four…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Planning, Native Language, Native Language Instruction
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Roberts, Tim – Online Submission, 2022
This study adopts a conversation analytic approach to present a close analysis of the sequential organisation of a parent-child homework activity in a Swedish-English bi-national family. Families formed within migration contexts are increasingly common in an ever-globalised world, but current research has not fully investigated how parent-child…
Descriptors: Homework, Translation, Discourse Analysis, Parent Child Relationship
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Belancic, Kristina; Lindgren, Eva – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2020
Sami are Indigenous languages spoken by the Sami people in the northern parts of Scandinavia and Russia. All Sami languages are endangered because of historically aggressive assimilation policies. Currently Sami communities are working actively with language revitalisation processes. This article examines pupils' access to knowledge in and about…
Descriptors: Languages, Swedish, Course Descriptions, Acculturation
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Lindgren, Eva; Westum, Asbjørg; Outakoski, Hanna; Sullivan, Kirk P.H. – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2017
Sápmi is a geographical area that runs across the Kola Peninsula in Russia to northern Finland, Norway and Sweden. All Sami languages have been going through a rapid language change process and many of the traditional language domains have disappeared during the last decades due to previous national and local language policies. Nevertheless,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Geographic Regions, Finno Ugric Languages, Norwegian
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Kallkvist, Marie – Modern Language Journal, 2013
This article explores the value of judiciously used first language (L1)-to-second language (L2) translation in meaning-focused, advanced-level academic language education. It examines languaging in the teacher-led discourse (TLD) that arises when translation tasks are used and compares it to languaging during the TLD engendered by 4 other…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Qualitative Research, Native Language, Second Language Learning
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Amir, Alia; Musk, Nigel – Classroom Discourse, 2013
This article examines what we call "micro-level language policy-in-process"--that is, how a target--language-only policy emerges "in situ" in the foreign language classroom. More precisely, we investigate the role of "language policing", the mechanism deployed by the teacher and/or pupils to (re-)establish the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language of Instruction, Foreign Countries