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Gasiorek, Jessica; Dragojevic, Marko; Vincze, Laszlo – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
In this study, we examined how growing up in a bilingual (Swedish-Finnish) versus monolingual (Swedish only) household in a bilingual region of Finland affected adolescents' language competence and language-related perspective-taking, and how these factors were related to adolescents' language choice in interaction. Survey data were collected from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Swedish, Finno Ugric Languages, Monolingualism
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Vataja, Pia; Lerkkanen, Marja-Kristiina; Aro, Mikko; Westerholm, Jari; Risberg, Ann-Katrine; Salmi, Paula – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2022
The aim of the study was to examine which predictor variables are related to literacy skills among monolingual Swedish (n = 269) and bilingual Finnish-Swedish (n = 229) children at the first grade in the Swedish-speaking schools in Finland. The participants were assessed in phonological awareness, letter knowledge, rapid automatized naming (RAN),…
Descriptors: Literacy, Monolingualism, Bilingual Students, Finno Ugric Languages
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Puskás, Tünde – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2017
This paper examines the strategies monolingual teachers use to scaffold meaning and encourage and enhance verbal communication with emergent bilingual children in a Swedish mainstream preschool. The study is based on ethnographic fieldwork in a preschool group in which seven of twelve children spoke Swedish as their second, additional language.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Teachers, Preschool Children, Preschool Education