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Ryan, Ulrika; Källberg, Petra Svensson; Boistrup, Lisa Björklund – For the Learning of Mathematics, 2021
In this, paper we attend to epistemological potentials of multilingual language use and mathematics in connection to the 'language-as-resource' idea and how the idea is actualised in Swedish mathematics education contexts. In this paper we develop and propose a framework for considering different epistemological potentials for multilingual…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Language Usage
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Magnusson, Petra; Godhe, Anna-Lena – Designs for Learning, 2019
The aim of this article is to discuss how a multimodal approach to meaning-making can contribute to language education and how multimodal meaning-making is supported in the Swedish curricula. Considering the rapid digitalization of contemporary communication, the aim and content of language education has been challenged. The article describes…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Multimedia Materials, Semiotics, Swedish
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Bardel, Camilla; Gudmundson, Anna; Lindqvist, Christina – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2012
This article reports on the design and use of a profiler for lexical sophistication (i.e., use of advanced vocabulary), which was created to assess the lexical richness of intermediate and advanced Swedish second language (L2) learners' French and Italian. It discusses how teachers' judgments (TJs) of word difficulty can contribute to the…
Descriptors: Basic Vocabulary, Effect Size, Profiles, Vocabulary Development
Østern, Anna-Lena, Comp.; Harju-Luukkainen, Heidi, Comp. – Mercator European Research Centre on Multilingualism and Language Learning, 2013
This regional dossier aims to provide a concise, description and basic statistics about minority language education in a specific region of Europe. Aspects that are addressed include features of the education system, recent educational policies, main actors, legal arrangements, and support structures, as well as quantitative aspects, such as the…
Descriptors: Swedish, Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction, Language Minorities
Takala, Sauli – 1980
A report is presented of work in syllabus construction and language planning in Finland from the middle of the 1960s to the present. An introductory chapter describes Finland's parallel educational systems, which provide for speakers of the two official languages, Finnish and Swedish, and for instruction in the other national language as well as…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Finnish, Language Enrollment, Language Planning
National Swedish Board of Education, Stockholm. – 1974
The research project on sign language in progress at the University of Stockholm is intended to: (1) give an account of the structure of sign language, (2) make a structural comparison between Swedish and sign language, and (3) utilize insight gained through the analysis of sign language in the development of teaching materials. The project is…
Descriptors: Deafness, Descriptive Linguistics, Dictionaries, Instructional Materials
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Jappinen, Aini-Kristiina – Language and Education, 2005
This paper presents a study on thinking and learning processes of mathematics and science in teaching through a foreign language, in Finland. The entity of thinking and content learning processes is, in this study, considered as cognitional development. Teaching through a foreign language is here called Content and Language Integrated Learning or…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, Learning Processes, Mathematics Instruction