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Björk, Kaisa; Danielsson, Eva; Basic, Goran – Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies, 2019
In 2015, approximately 70,000 children and young people immigrated to Sweden, including 35,000 unaccompanied minors who arrived without any legal guardian. The huge influx of young people has been a challenge for the Swedish school system. Newly arrived immigrant students are a diverse group, and their educational backgrounds vary. Those actively…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Professional Identity, Teacher Collaboration, Teacher Role
From, Tuuli; Sahlström, Fritjof – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2017
Finland is a bilingual country with 2 national languages, Finnish and Swedish. The Swedish-speaking school institution aims to protect the minority language by maintaining a monolingual school space. In this article, the construction of linguistic and ethnic difference in educational discourse and practice related to the national languages in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Bilingualism, Swedish, Finno Ugric Languages
Jonsson, Carla – Classroom Discourse, 2019
In a bilingual school, the linguistic and semiotic resources of students who speak one, two or several languages can be used in classroom discourse in order to embrace and strengthen the multiplicity of voices and languages in teaching and learning. In this article, four English language lessons -- where the medium of instruction mainly oscillates…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Code Switching (Language), Second Language Learning, Bilingual Schools
Hult, Francis M.; Källkvist, Marie – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2016
In this paper, the language policies of three Swedish universities are examined as instances of language planning in local contexts. Although Sweden has the national Language Act of 2009 (SFS 2009:600) as well as a general Higher Education Ordinance (SFS 1993:100; SFS 2014:1096), language planning for higher education is left to the purview of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Usage, Language Planning, Educational Policy
Bergroth, Mari; Palviainen, Åsa – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2017
The current study examines bilingual children as language policy agents in the interplay between official language policy and education policy at three Swedish-medium preschools in Finland. For this purpose we monitored nine Finnish-Swedish bilingual children aged 3 to 5 years for 18 months. The preschools were located in three different parts of…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Swedish, Language of Instruction, Preschool Children
Boyd, Sally; Huss, Leena; Ottesjö, Cajsa – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2017
This paper presents results from an ethnographic study of language policy as it is enacted in everyday interaction in two language profile preschools in Sweden with explicit monolingual language policies: English and Finnish, respectively. However, in both preschools, children are free to choose language or code alternate. The study shows how…
Descriptors: Profiles, Preschool Children, Educational Policy, Code Switching (Language)
Källkvist, Marie; Hult, Francis M. – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2016
In the wake of the enactment of Sweden's Language Act in 2009 and in the face of the growing presence of English, Swedish universities have been called upon by the Swedish Higher Education Authority to craft their own language policy documents. This study focuses on the discursive negotiation of institutional bilingualism by a language policy…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Swedish, Bilingualism, Universities
Boyd, Sally; Ottesjö, Cajsa – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2016
Parents, teachers and institutions often attempt to implement monolingual policies in bilingual settings, believing that they thereby facilitate children's bilingual development. Children, however, often have their own communicative agendas. In this study, we investigate how the twofold language policy of an English-medium preschool in Sweden is…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language of Instruction, Swedish, Bilingualism
Pöyhönen, Sari; Saarinen, Taina – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2015
The concept of bilingualism in Finnish political discourse is predominantly used in the meaning of official or state bilingualism, focusing on the two constitutionally defined "national languages;" that is, Finnish and Swedish. Legally, both Finnish and Swedish-speakers have a right for public services, such as schooling or health care,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Bilingualism, Language Attitudes, Swedish
Soler-Carbonell, Josep; Saarinen, Taina; Kibbermann, Kerttu – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2017
This article analyses language policies in higher education (HE) in Finland, Estonia, and Latvia, as well as the European Union (EU). We take a multilayered approach to language policies in order to illuminate the intertwined nature of local, national, and international language policies in HE. We are particularly interested in the construction of…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Multilingualism, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Bergroth, Mari; Palviainen, Åsa – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2016
Educational partnerships occur at the intersection of early childhood education and care (ECEC), families, and the surrounding community, and have been shown to play a significant role in student success rates in education. There is, however, a gap in research on the role and potential of "partnership" in the case of bilingual families…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Bilingualism, Language Minorities
Palviainen, Åsa; Mård-Miettinen, Karita – Language and Education, 2015
Teachers have an agentive role as they interpret, evaluate and develop language policies and practices. In the current study we interviewed a bilingual pre-school teacher in Finland during the first year of implementing a new way of working bilingually with a class of monolingual children. Applying nexus analysis, we explored the teacher…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Preschool Education, Teacher Attitudes, Teaching Methods
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