Multilingual Education in Sweden
About this ebook
Sweden provides a particularly interesting case study in multilingual education, with numerous languages offered in schools and a longstanding tradition of teaching Swedish as a second language to adults, as well as to young learners.
This volume investigates the complex areas of societal and individual multilingualism in Sweden from diverse viewpoints and across a wide array of educational contexts, target languages and individual language backgrounds. It discusses concepts of global relevance, including out-of-school language practices, content and language integrated learning, language assessment practices, attitudes, developmental language disorders, and teacher beliefs.
It will be of interest to pre- and in-service teachers and teacher educators in multilingual contexts and to researchers working within related areas, such as language policy, teacher identity and aspects of assessment.
This book is open access under a CC BY NC ND licence.
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About the author
Camilla Bardel is Professor of Modern Languages and Language Education at Stockholm University, Sweden. She has published widely on multilingual language development, crosslinguistic influence in second and third language learning, teacher-researcher collaboration and language education policy.
Gudrun Erickson is Professor of Education in Language and Assessment at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Her research interests lie within the fields of language policy and assessment at national and international levels, with a special focus on collaborative processes.
Eva Lindgren is Professor of Language Teaching and Learning in the Department of Language Studies at Umeå University, Sweden. Her research interests include curriculum, multilingualism and literacy with a particular focus on writing development across languages.
Liss Kerstin Sylvén is Professor of Language Education at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Her primary research interests involve the learning of English as a second language, particularly in connection with Content and Language Integrated Learning and extramural exposure to English.
