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Palviainen, Åsa; Räisä, Tiina – Language Policy, 2023
While mobile app-mediated communication between children and members of their family represents a substantial part of contemporary family communication and language input, we still know very little about the role of these technologies in family language policy (FLP). With an explorative questionnaire survey, the current study set out to examine…
Descriptors: Finno Ugric Languages, Swedish, Language of Instruction, Family Relationship
Lundell, Fanny Forsberg; Arvidsson, Klara; Jemstedt, Andreas – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2023
The study investigates how psychological and social factors relate to productive collocation knowledge in late L2 learners of Swedish (French L1) (N = 59). The individual factors are language aptitude (measured through the LLAMA aptitude test), reported language use, social networks, acculturation, and personality. Multiple linear regression…
Descriptors: Swedish, French, Psychological Patterns, Social Influences
Lindgren, Josefin; Reichardt, Valerie; Bohnacker, Ute – First Language, 2022
Closely related Swedish and German both mark information status of referents morphologically, though little is known about its acquisition. This study investigates character introductions in the narratives of 4- and 6-year-old Swedish-German bilinguals (N = 40) in both languages, elicited with MAIN "Cat/Dog." We analyse effects of age…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Nouns, Phrase Structure, Form Classes (Languages)
Alstad, Gunhild Tomter; Sopanen, Pauliina – Nordic Journal of Studies in Educational Policy, 2021
This article investigates the language orientations in education policy documents for early childhood education and care (ECEC) in Finland and Norway. Finland, an officially bilingual country, and Norway, a predominantly monolingual country, share similar views on ECEC. However, the ECEC field in both countries has undergone major changes in…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Educational Policy, Child Care, Cross Cultural Studies
Puskás, Tünde – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2017
This paper examines the strategies monolingual teachers use to scaffold meaning and encourage and enhance verbal communication with emergent bilingual children in a Swedish mainstream preschool. The study is based on ethnographic fieldwork in a preschool group in which seven of twelve children spoke Swedish as their second, additional language.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Teachers, Preschool Children, Preschool Education
Norrman, Gunnar; Bylund, Emanuel – Developmental Science, 2016
The question of a sensitive period in language acquisition has been subject to extensive research and debate for more than half a century. While it has been well established that the ability to learn new languages declines in early years, the extent to which this outcome depends on biological maturation in contrast to previously acquired knowledge…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Acquisition, Second Language Learning, Swedish
Ljunggren, Åsa – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2016
This article summarizes the work and the main findings of an action research project that was conducted in an early childhood education and care setting in the city of Malmö, Sweden in the autumn of 2013 and spring 2014. Rönnerman's model (Aktionsforskning i praktiken: förskola och skola på vetenskaplig grund [Action research in practice:…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Action Research, Foreign Countries, Child Care
Sundqvist, Pia; Sylvén, Liss Kerstin – Research-publishing.net, 2012
This paper presents findings from a study investigating young Swedish learners' extramural (out-of-school) contact with English. In contemporary Sweden, the influx of English is great and research has shown that extramural contact with English correlates positively with students' proficiency in English (Olsson, 2011; Sundqvist, 2009; Sylvén,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Assisted Instruction, English (Second Language), Learning Activities
Lindqvist, Christina – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2009
This study investigates to what degree, and in what manner, the L1 and L2(s) influence spoken French L3. The analysis is divided in two parts. The first examines the cross-linguistic lexemes of 30 Swedish learners, divided into three groups according to previous exposure to French. The results show that proficiency in the L3 is crucial: the least…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, French, Language Acquisition, Second Language Learning
Svartholm, Kristina – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2010
In 1981, Swedish Sign Language gained recognition by the Swedish Parliament as the language of deaf people, a decision that made Sweden the first country in the world to give a sign language the status of a language. Swedish was designated as a second language for deaf people, and the need for bilingualism among them was officially asserted. This…
Descriptors: Special Schools, Sign Language, Second Language Learning, Bilingual Education
Bylund, Emanuel – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2009
This study explores the effects that the age of onset (AO) of second language (L2) acquisition exerts on the attrition of first language (L1) event conceptualization patterns. The subjects studied are L1 Spanish-L2 Swedish bilinguals living in Sweden. The specific research questions addressed in the study concern the role of AO in endpoint…
Descriptors: Monolingualism, Foreign Countries, Language Skills, Swedish
Bylund, Emanuel; Abrahamsson, Niclas; Hyltenstam, Kenneth – Applied Linguistics, 2010
While language aptitude has been investigated actively within second language research, there is a current dearth of research on the effects of aptitude in cases of attrition. The aim of the present investigation was to explore the role of language aptitude for L1 proficiency in speakers who experienced a break with their L1 setting prior to…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Second Language Learning, Language Skill Attrition, Language Research

Elmeroth, Elisabeth – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2003
Studied the factors that govern immigrants' acquisition of a second language through 22 interviews with illiterate Kurdish refugees in Sweden and immigrants with at least 6 years of schooling. The pedagogic conclusions that can be drawn relate mainly to measures for increasing motivation and the need for achieving greater contact with target…
Descriptors: Adults, Immigrants, Language Acquisition, Literacy
McCarthy, Philip M.; Jarvis, Scott – Language Testing, 2007
A reliable index of lexical diversity (LD) has remained stubbornly elusive for over 60 years. Meanwhile, researchers in fields as varied as "stylistics," "neuropathology," "language acquisition," and even "forensics" continue to use flawed LD indices--often ignorant that their results are questionable and in…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Adolescents

Schmid, Beata – Language Learning, 1986
A study compared the Swedish tone accent acquisition of native-speaking children (N=2) and nonnative speaking college students (N=12). Both groups overgeneralized one pitch pattern to all bisyllabic words. Children used "Accent 2" (two-peaked) and adults "Accent 1" (one-peaked), analogous to the prevailing patterns of their…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Children, Intonation