Search for dissertations about: "biliteracy"

Found 3 swedish dissertations containing the word biliteracy.

  2. 1. Advanced Second-Language Reading and Vocabulary Learning in the Parallel-Language University

    Author : Špela Mežek; Philip Shaw; Diane Pecorari; Jim Coleman; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; advanced second-language reading; biliteracy; content courses; English textbooks; higher education; incidental vocabulary learning; parallel-language courses; reading to learn; Sweden; English; engelska;

    Abstract : Due to the internationalisation of higher education, the use of English at higher education institutions has become widespread. Today an increasing number of students participate in courses with the local language as medium of instruction but with textbooks in English. READ MORE

  4. 2. Multilingual literacy among young learners of North Sámi : contexts, complexity and writing in Sápmi

    Author : Hanna Outakoski; Mikael Vinka; Kirk P. H. Sullivan; Eva Lindgren; Kenneth Hyltenstam; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; bilingualism; complexity; Continua of Biliteracy; diversity; global North; keytroke logging; learners; literacy; Nordic Countries; North Sámi; Sápmi; school; writing; finsk-ugriska språk; Finno-Ugric Languages;

    Abstract : This thesis presents an investigation of the complexities of the immediate, ideological, educational, and societal contexts for literacy development among North Sámi learners between the ages of 9 and 15 who live in Northern Finland, Norway and Sweden in the central regions of Sápmi. Further, this thesis focuses on one area of literacy, namely writing. 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