Search for dissertations about: "Translanguaging"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 10 swedish dissertations containing the word Translanguaging.

  2. 1. Lexical Transfer in Pedagogical Translanguaging : Exploring Intentionality in Multilingual Learners of Spanish

    Author : Carles Fuster; Lázaro Moreno Herrera; Camilla Bardel; Staffan Nilsson; Ali Reza Majlesi; Scott Jarvis; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; multilingual education; third language acquisition; L3 Spanish; pedagogical translanguaging; crosslinguistic influence; lexical transfer; transfer strategy; intentional transfer; tredjespråksinlärning; pedagogiskt transspråkande; spanska; flerspråkighet; moderna språk; pedagogik; Education;

    Abstract : A long-standing pedagogical implication of the traditional monolingual perspective in research and education has been to discourage any use of non-target languages in the L2 classroom as an attempt to reduce ‘interferences’ (i.e., transfer) between learners’ languages. READ MORE

  4. 2. English-Medium Instruction in Sweden : Perspectives and practices in two upper secondary schools

    Author : BethAnne Yoxsimer Paulsrud; Inger Lindberg; Philip Shaw; Ofelia García; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; English-medium instruction EMI ; Content and Language Integrated Learning CLIL ; upper secondary school; English in Sweden; language policy; translanguaging; academic language; language hierarchy; Education in Languages and Language Development; utbildningsvetenskap med inriktning mot språk och språkutveckling; Utbildning och lärande;

    Abstract : This thesis presents English-medium instruction (EMI) in the Swedish context, focusing on perspectives and practices in two schools. The research question is as follows: How and why is EMI offered, chosen, and practiced in the Swedish upper secondary school today? The aim is to explore the status of the educational option, the reasons for offering EMI to stakeholders, the stakeholders’ beliefs about and goals of EMI, and the implementation of EMI in the classroom. READ MORE

  5. 3. Developing multilingual literacies in Sweden and Australia : Opportunities and challenges in mother tongue instruction and multilingual study guidance in Sweden and community language education in Australia

    Author : Anne Reath Warren; Päivi Juvonen; Monica Axelsson; Elizabeth Ellis; Angela Creese; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; mother tongue instruction; community language schools; translanguaging; heteroglossia; narrative analysis; multilingual literacies; resourceful speakers; continua of biliteracy; studiehandledning på modersmål; modersmålsundervisning; språkdidaktik; Language Education;

    Abstract : This thesis aims to learn about opportunities for and challenges to the development of multilingual literacies in three forms of education in Sweden and Australia that teach or draw on immigrant languages.  In Sweden mother tongue instruction and multilingual study guidance are in focus and in Australia, a community language school. READ MORE

  6. 4. A comparative study of Yucatec Maya Sign Languages

    Author : Josefina Safar; Johanna Mesch; Olivier Le Guen; Victoria Nyst; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Yucatec Maya Sign Language; Yucatec Maya; Mexico; Mesoamerica; shared sign language; village sign language; language emergence; language evolution; sociolinguistic variation; gesture-sign interface; grammaticalisation; lexicalisation; cardinal numbers; size-and-shape specifiers; translanguaging; noun-verb distinction; Linguistics; lingvistik;

    Abstract : In my dissertation, I focus on the documentation and comparison of indigenous sign languages in Yucatán, Mexico. I conducted fieldwork in four Yucatec Maya communities with a high incidence of deafness. READ MORE

  7. 5. Coping with Learning through a Foreign Language in Higher Education in Rwanda

    Author : Anne Marie Kagwesage; Ingrid Andersson; Sven Andersson; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Higher education; foreign instructional language; Rwanda; students’ learning; translanguaging; globalisation; Högre utbildning; undervisning på främmande språk; Rwanda; lärande; gränsöverskridande språkande; globalisering;

    Abstract : The overarching aims of this thesis are to investigate how students in higher education in Rwanda experience learning through the medium of a foreign language, mainly English, and the strategies they employ in order to successfully complete their university studies during a period of both language and educational change. Taking a sociocultural perspective, the thesis subscribes to a qualitative research design. READ MORE