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View article: Accommodating beginner language learners in level-based language introduction
Accommodating beginner language learners in level-based language introduction Open
The paper builds on ethnographic fieldwork in a Language Introduction program for recently arrived students in an upper secondary school in Sweden. In a short period of time, this program prepares students for using Swedish as an academic …
View article: Dialoguing on a Graphic Novel in the Language Learning Classroom with Upper Secondary School Students
Dialoguing on a Graphic Novel in the Language Learning Classroom with Upper Secondary School Students Open
Drawing on a larger project on teaching Swedish as a second language to migrant upper secondary school students in Sweden, this paper focuses on one teacher’s literature class and a book-group discussion about a graphic novel based on Selm…
View article: Epistemic Reciprocity Through a Decolonial Crip Literacy in Accommodated Language Education for Adults
Epistemic Reciprocity Through a Decolonial Crip Literacy in Accommodated Language Education for Adults Open
This linguistic ethnography was conducted in accommodated language education in Sweden, aimed at adult learners with deafness, hearing impairment, post-traumatic stress disorder, migration stress, or intellectual disability, here, focusing…
View article: Swedish immersion in Finland and Swedish as a second-language subject in Sweden
Swedish immersion in Finland and Swedish as a second-language subject in Sweden Open
Based on fieldwork and interviews, we explore five teachers’ views about their teaching of Swedish as a second language in an early immersion school in Finland (Larch) and a linguistically heterogeneous primary school in Sweden (Chestnut).…
View article: Exploring Language Education: Global and Local Perspectives
Exploring Language Education: Global and Local Perspectives Open
The overarching aim of this book is to offer researchers and students insight into some currently discussed issues at the Swedish as well as the international research frontline of Language Education in a selection of up-to-date work. Anot…
View article: Introduction
Introduction Open
Stockholm University Press is an open access publisher of peer-reviewed academic journals and books. We aim to make journals and books affordable, and to enable the widest possible dissemination so that researchers around the world can fin…
View article: Critical Multilingual Language Awareness Among Migrant Students: Cultivating Curiosity and a Linguistics of Participation
Critical Multilingual Language Awareness Among Migrant Students: Cultivating Curiosity and a Linguistics of Participation Open
This paper draws from a collaborative project in which we piloted a Critical Multilingual Language Awareness approach (CMLA) in a preparatory class for recently arrived secondary school students in Sweden. We adapted material on Language A…
View article: Multilingual study mentoring for critical multilingual language awareness among migrant adolescents: scenarios of possibility
Multilingual study mentoring for critical multilingual language awareness among migrant adolescents: scenarios of possibility Open
This paper builds on a collaborative pilot project on Critical Multilingual Language Awareness (CMLA) in a linguistically diverse Preparatory Class with migrant adolescents in Sweden. Importantly, the approach involved Multilingual Study M…
View article: Co-assessment among language teachers
Co-assessment among language teachers Open
This paper reports on a case study of online co-assessment practices among teachers of minoritized languages in the so-called Mother Tongue (MT) subject in Sweden. These co-assessments, involving both qualified and unqualified teachers, ha…
View article: Adjusting to linguistic diversity in a primary school through relational agency and expertise: a mother-tongue teacher team’s perspective
Adjusting to linguistic diversity in a primary school through relational agency and expertise: a mother-tongue teacher team’s perspective Open
This paper explores the role of collaborative teacher agency in facilitating translingual adjustments in a linguistically diverse primary school in Sweden. We focus on three multicompetent language teachers, who taught minoritized language…
View article: Researching the Complexities of the School Subject Swedish as a Second Language: A Linguistic Ethnographic Project in Four Schools
Researching the Complexities of the School Subject Swedish as a Second Language: A Linguistic Ethnographic Project in Four Schools Open
This article focuses on language education policy for language learners in Sweden by building on a synthesis of findings from a research project on the school subject Swedish as a second language (SSL). The project was located in three upp…
View article: Modersmålsämnets legitimitet i ett förändrat politiskt landskap - En analys av svensk riksdagsdebatt under 2010-talet
Modersmålsämnets legitimitet i ett förändrat politiskt landskap - En analys av svensk riksdagsdebatt under 2010-talet Open
The legitimacy of the mother tongue subject in a changing political landscape: An analysis of Swedish parliamentary debate in the twenty-tens. This paper highlights and discusses the arguments in favor of, or against Mother Tongue Instruct…
View article: Student agency in relation to space and educational discourse. The case of English online mother tongue instruction
Student agency in relation to space and educational discourse. The case of English online mother tongue instruction Open
This study emerged from the abrupt shift to online distance teaching due to the Covid-19 pandemic and reports of Mother Tongue Instruction (MTI) in Sweden, where online distance teaching was initially introduced in MTI only. In Sweden, MTI…
View article: Constructing success and hope among migrant students and families. A mother tongue teacher's didactic narratives
Constructing success and hope among migrant students and families. A mother tongue teacher's didactic narratives Open
Focusing on the narrations of Omid – a Mother Tongue (MT) teacher of Arabic in a Swedish primary school – we analyze discursive constructions of Sweden, multilingualism and MT instruction in interview data and fieldnotes from parenting cou…
View article: <i>Introductory classes</i>for newcomer primary school students in Sweden: Pedagogical principles and emotional understanding
<i>Introductory classes</i>for newcomer primary school students in Sweden: Pedagogical principles and emotional understanding Open
Through the study of pedagogic discourse and practice in introductory classes (ICs) aimed at new migrant students at a linguistically diverse primary school in Sweden, we discuss pedagogic principles and power dynamics, drawing on Bernstei…
View article: Teachers’ acts of legitimation in second language education in Swedish upper secondary schools
Teachers’ acts of legitimation in second language education in Swedish upper secondary schools Open
Drawing from an ethnographic project on the subject of Swedish as a second language (SSL1) in three linguistically diverse upper secondary schools, the aim of this study was to investigate how three SSL teachers, one from each school, disc…
View article: Introductory commentary
Introductory commentary Open
Reading the contributions to this special issue, it is striking how little research has hitherto been conducted on qur’anic schooling and Qur’an faith literacy practices in Scandinavia, despite it being well-known that the Qur’an schools c…
View article: Performative functions of multilingual policy in second language education in Sweden
Performative functions of multilingual policy in second language education in Sweden Open
This paper targets the aim of 'strengthening the students' multilingualism' in a second language subject in Sweden, Swedish as a second language (SSL), which represents a relatively rare L2 design internationally. The study investigates ho…
View article: Mother tongue instruction in Sweden and Denmark
Mother tongue instruction in Sweden and Denmark Open
This article investigates mother tongue instruction (MTI) in Sweden and Denmark in a historical, comparative perspective, with a view to accounting for key differences in language policy enacted in educational fields. Whereas in Sweden, MT…
View article: Language use and investment among children and adolescents of Somali heritage in Sweden
Language use and investment among children and adolescents of Somali heritage in Sweden Open
This article explores language use and investment among Somali-speaking children and adolescents in Sweden, through group interviews and survey data. Our findings indicate that there are incentives to invest in Somali language learning con…
View article: Ideology vs. practice : Is there a space for pedagogical translanguaging in mother tongue instruction?
Ideology vs. practice : Is there a space for pedagogical translanguaging in mother tongue instruction? Open
Ideology vs. practice : Is there a space for pedagogical translanguaging in mother tongue instruction?
View article: The Impact of Mother Tongue Instruction on the Development of Biliteracy: Evidence from Somali–Swedish Bilinguals
The Impact of Mother Tongue Instruction on the Development of Biliteracy: Evidence from Somali–Swedish Bilinguals Open
This study investigates if participation in mother tongue instruction (henceforth MTI) impacts the biliteracy proficiency of young bilinguals, drawing on examples from Somali–Swedish bilinguals and Somali MTI in a Swedish school context. I…
View article: Special Education Teachers’ Narratives on Literacy Support for Bilingual Students with Dyslexia in Swedish Compulsory Schools
Special Education Teachers’ Narratives on Literacy Support for Bilingual Students with Dyslexia in Swedish Compulsory Schools Open
The aim of the study is to investigate how special education teachers talk about their teaching in relation to bilingual students with dyslexia within Swedish compulsory schools. Data consist of transcripts from in-depth interviews with 15…