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Language Orientations in Early Childhood Education Policy in Finland and Norway
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Alstad, Gunhild Tomter; Sopanen, Pauliina – Nordic Journal of Studies in Educational Policy, 2021
This article investigates the language orientations in education policy documents for early childhood education and care (ECEC) in Finland and Norway. Finland, an officially bilingual country, and Norway, a predominantly monolingual country, share similar views on ECEC. However, the ECEC field in both countries has undergone major changes in…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Educational Policy, Child Care, Cross Cultural Studies
Opening up New Spaces for Languaging Practice in Early Childhood Education for Migrant Children
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Harju, Anne; Åkerblom, Annika – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2020
This paper explores language practice in early childhood education for children new to the majority language, discussing how language practice can be transformed through actions such as reflexive dialogues with educators. In a Swedish action-research project, educators and researchers collaborated in reflexive dialogues to develop language…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Language Usage, Code Switching (Language), Action Research
Language Policy as 'Frozen' Ideology: Exploring the Administrative Function in Swedish Higher Education
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Karlsson, Susanna; Karlsson, Tom S. – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2020
This article examines Language Policy documents within higher education institutions in Sweden. Its main focus is on how national language policies and policies for internationalization of the higher education are reinterpreted as local language policy. The analysis of ideologies surrounding the prescribed language(s) in meetings of decision…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Higher Education, Educational Policy, Swedish
Bilingual Lexical Interillumination in the Foreign Language Classroom
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St. John, Oliver – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2010
Foreign language (FL) education has been marked by a monolingual principle that has favoured "intralingual" methodologies. Bakhtin's view of language interillumination--that languages throw light on each other--challenges such language teaching practices radically. Using conversation analysis methods, this article examines transcripts of…
Descriptors: Semantics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Monolingualism
L2 Effects on L1 Event Conceptualization
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Bylund, Emanuel; Jarvis, Scott – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2011
The finding that speakers of aspect languages encode event endpoints to a lesser extent than do speakers of non-aspect languages has led to the hypothesis that there is a relationship between grammatical aspect and event conceptualization (e.g., von Stutterheim and Nuse, 2003). The present study concerns L1 event conceptualization in 40 L1…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Form Classes (Languages), Grammar, Motion
How Word Frequency Affects Morphological Processing in Monolinguals and Bilinguals
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Lehtonen, Minna; Laine, Matti – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2003
The present study investigated processing of morphologically complex words in three different frequency ranges in monolingual Finnish speakers and Finnish-Swedish bilinguals. By employing a visual lexical decision task, we found a differential pattern of results in monolinguals vs. bilinguals. Monolingual Finns seemed to process low frequency and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Swedish, Word Frequency, Morphology (Languages)