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Christina Hedman; Una Cunningham – Language Awareness, 2025
The paper builds on ethnographic fieldwork in a Language Introduction program for recently arrived students in an upper secondary school in Sweden. In a short period of time, this program prepares students for using Swedish as an academic language, in order to enter a national program. One response to this challenge is that schools allocate the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Swedish, Secondary School Students
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Eva Olsson – Language Teaching Research, 2025
Although research on content and language integrated learning (CLIL) has shown that CLIL instruction may enhance students' second or foreign language learning compared to regular foreign language instruction, there are also studies that have indicated similar language development between CLIL and non-CLIL students. However, CLIL can be organized…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Hedman, Christina; Magnusson, Ulrika – Language and Education, 2020
Drawing from an ethnographic project on the subject of "Swedish as a second language" (SSL) in three linguistically diverse upper secondary schools, the aim of this study was to investigate how three SSL teachers, one from each school, discursively constructed SSL, and whether and how they legitimated their role as SSL teachers, in…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Swedish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction