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Children's Use of English as Lingua Franca in Swedish Preschools
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Larsson, Karolina; Björk-Willén, Polly; Haraldsson, Katarina; Hansson, Kristina – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2023
This paper highlights a current phenomenon reported from preschools placed in multilingual areas in Sweden, namely that some preschoolers with mutually different language backgrounds sometimes use English as lingua franca instead of Swedish during play. The data stems from a study of language environments in Swedish preschools situated in both…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Official Languages, Language Role
Morphosyntactic Challenges for Swedish-Speaking Children with Developmental Language Disorder in Comparison with L1 and L2 Peers
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Reuterskiöld, Christina; Hallin, Anna Eva; Nair, Vishnu K. K.; Hansson, Kristina – Applied Linguistics, 2021
This article provides an overview of the research on morpho-syntactic challenges in Swedish-speaking children with developmental language disorder (DLD), compared with typically developing (TD) children learning Swedish as their first and second language (L1/L2). Children with DLD show vulnerabilities with verb finiteness, the possessive…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Swedish, Morphology (Languages), Syntax
An Exploratory Study of Verbal Interaction between Children with Different Profiles of DLD and Their Classroom Teachers in Educational Dialogues
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Bruce, Barbro; Hansson, Kristina – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2019
Children with a history of developmental language disorder (DLD) entering school are a challenge for classroom teachers. Teachers are often not very familiar with DLD, and language difficulties in school age children are often not obvious in context-supported everyday language. However, their language is still vulnerable. The teachers' way of…
Descriptors: Developmental Disabilities, Language Impairments, Oral Language, Interpersonal Communication
Narrative Skills in Swedish Children with Language Impairment
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Reuterskiold, Christina; Hansson, Kristina; Sahlen, Birgitta – Journal of Communication Disorders, 2011
This study investigated the development of narrative skills in Swedish children with language impairment between age 5 and age 10. Seventeen children with LI and two control groups of age peers with typical development participated in a picture elicited story telling task. Analyses included measures of story content, cohesion and grammar. Our…
Descriptors: Story Telling, Language Impairments, Children, Verbs
Noun Phrase Morphology in Swedish-Speaking Children with Specific Language Impairment.
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Leonard, Laurence B.; Salameh, Eva-Kristina; Hansson, Kristina – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2001
Examined the use of noun phrase morphology by preschool-age children with specific language impairment (SLI) who were also acquiring Swedish. Relative to typically developing same-age peers and younger peers matched according to mean length of utterance, the children with SLI had greater difficulty in the use of genitive inflections, indefinite…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Language Impairments, Morphology (Languages), Nouns
Specific Language Impairment in Children: A Comparison of English and Swedish
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Leonard, Laurence B.; Hansson, Kristina; Nettelbladt, Ulrike; Deevy, Patricia – Language Acquisition, 2004
We report a cross-linguistic investigation of English-and Swedish-speaking children with specific language impairment (SLI) in an attempt to determine whether Wexler's (1998; 2003) (Extended) Unique Checking Constraint (EUCC) can account for the grammatical profiles of these groups of children. In Study 1, a group of Swedish-speaking preschoolers…
Descriptors: Severity (of Disability), Language Impairments, English, Swedish
Comprehension and Production of Relative Clauses: A Comparison between Swedish Impaired and Unimpaired Children.
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Hakansson, Gisela; Hansson, Kristina – Journal of Child Language, 2000
Investigates the relationship between language comprehension and language production in Swedish children in a study carried out longitudinally with 10 children with specific language impairment (SLI) and 10 children with unimpaired language development. Results indicate that the relationship between comprehension and production is different at…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Developmental Stages, Foreign Countries, Language Impairments