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Jonsson, Rickard – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2018
During the last decade, Sweden has witnessed a significant increase in public attention concerning the following interrelated linguistic phenomena: (a) a linguistic style labelled "Rinkeby Swedish," (b) specific "Rinkeby Swedish words" that have been perceived as disparaging in Swedish public debate, and (c) a specific young…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Urban Youth, Language Styles
Deutschmann, Mats; Steinvall, Anders – European Association for Computer-Assisted Language Learning (EUROCALL), 2010
This paper presents further innovative use of virtual worlds under the pilot stages of ASSIS (A Second Step in Second Life), a project funded by Umea University. One of the aims of the project is to make use of the affordances offered by Second Life in order to raise sociolinguistic language awareness among teacher trainees and other students…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, College Students, Sociolinguistics, Cross Cultural Studies