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Karlsson, Monica – Arab World English Journal, 2019
In the present study, with the aim of analyzing the relationship among teacher feedback, feedforward, and grade, the corrections and comments made by four experienced assessors on 187 compositions were under scrutiny. These essays were written by 56 Swedish university students studying English as a second language at three different educational…
Descriptors: Correlation, Feedback (Response), Teacher Student Relationship, Grading
Atar, Cihat; Amir, Alia – Online Submission, 2018
The goal of this study is to analyze two English textbooks used in Sweden from a sociolinguistic perspective. This is a qualitative study, and the Sociolinguistic Textbook Evaluation Rubric (Atar & Erdem, 2020) consisting of six items was used to analyze the textbooks. The items of the rubric were applied to the textbooks, and the results were…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Airey, John; Lauridsen, Karen M.; Räsänen, Anne; Salö, Linus; Schwach, Vera – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2017
Recently, in the wake of the Bologna Declaration and similar international initiatives, there has been a rapid increase in the number of university courses and programmes taught through the medium of English. Surveys have consistently shown the Nordic countries to be at the forefront of this trend towards English-medium instruction (EMI). In this…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Universities, Educational Policy
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Matuszak, Katarzyna; Szczuka-Dorna, Liliana – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2023
This activity report describes a sample unit (Effective Data Presentation) from a communication course prepared as part of an Intellectual Output within the BADGE Project, which was carried out by 12 partner universities from 10 countries during 3 academic years (2019-2022). The article first describes the results of a survey which show that…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Languages for Special Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Hult, Francis M. – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2017
The Swedish educational policy for upper secondary English, which took effect in 2011 and adopts a globalised perspective on language, is explored with respect to how skills and awareness related to local, national, and international roles of English are represented in policy documents. A discourse analytic approach to language policy is used to…
Descriptors: Official Languages, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Attitudes
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Tholin, Jörgen – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2014
This paper examines whether the Swedish steering documents for English-language education are ethnically biased, that is, whether Swedish culture and language or "Swedishness" are used as norms when teaching and assessing students. To examine whether such bias exists, the central curricula and syllabi from 1994 and 2000, as well as local…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries