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Bylund, Emanuel; Diaz, Manuel – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2012
This study investigates the effects of weekly heritage language (HL) classes on first language (L1) proficiency in speakers who arrived in the second language (L2)-dominant setting before the onset of puberty. Two groups of L1 Spanish--L2 Swedish bilingual high school students living in Sweden participated in the study. One group currently…
Descriptors: Heritage Education, Language Maintenance, Foreign Countries, Computer Assisted Instruction
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Gunnarsson, Britt-Louise – Current Issues in Language & Society, 2000
Discusses the consequences of the dominance of English for a small language like Swedish and a small country like Sweden. Presents a survey of contrastive studies, which reveal that texts and writing in the mother tongue differ between cultures. Discusses studies of the current situation in Sweden, which reveal a serious threat towards certain…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Language Dominance, Language Role
Leone, Fulvio – Rassegna Italiana di Linguistica Applicata, 1986
Discusses the social and linguistic problems of children living in Sweden who have at least one Italian immigrant parent. (CFM)
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Bilingualism, Communication Problems, Foreign Countries
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Aikio, Marjut – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1986
Language use among linguistic minorities of the Northern Calotte (areas of Norway, Sweden, and Finland that lie above the Arctic Circle) is reviewed from the perspective of history and ecology of language. Two case studies examining language shift in these areas, where Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, and Sami are spoken, are also considered.…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Community Size, Descriptive Linguistics, Family History