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'Things Should Be Explained so That the Students Understand Them': Adolescent Immigrant Students' Perspectives on Learning the Language of Schooling in Finland
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Harju-Autti, Raisa; Mäkinen, Marita; Rättyä, Kaisu – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
This article explores the language learning experiences of four recently arrived adolescent plurilingual immigrant students who participated in additional structured linguistic support (SLS) in lower secondary education. The SLS was targeted at creating scaffolding for students who were learning both the language of schooling and the…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Student Attitudes, Finno Ugric Languages, Second Language Learning
One, Two or More? -- An Examination of the Apparition of Language and Discourse in a Finnish Landscape of Primary Education
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Savela, Timo – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2021
This article sets out to analyze how landscape functions in an educational context. It examines how landscape functions as an irreducible totality and as a nexus of discourse. The article focuses on the materialization of de jure and de facto discourses pertaining to languages in a primary level school in Southwest Finland. It also examines the…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Elementary School Students, Monolingualism, Bilingualism