Search for dissertations about: "language policy"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 118 swedish dissertations containing the words language policy.

  2. 6. Monolingual Policy, Bilingual Interaction : English-taught Education in Bangladesh

    Author : Rizwan-ul Huq; Jakob Cromdal; Katarina Eriksson Barajas; Eda Üstünel; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; bilingual education; language policy; language alternation; multimodal conversation analysis; classroom interaction; content and language integrated learning CLIL .; tvåspråkig utbildning; språkpolicy; kodväxling; multimodal konversationsanalys; klassrumsinteraktion; språk- och innehållsintegrerad inlärning CLIL .; দ্বিভাষিক শিক্ষা; ভাষা নীতি; ভাষার সংমিশ্রিত ব্যবহার; কথোপকথন বিশ্লেষণ; শ্রেণীকক্ষে শিক্ষক-ছাত্র মিথস্ক্রিয়া; ভাষা ও বিষয়ভিত্তিক সংযুক্ত শিক্ষা CLIL ;

    Abstract : The research reported here is an investigation of bilingual instruction in Bangladeshi schools. In particular, the thesis explores how schooling takes place when a second language is used as a medium of instruction to teach subject content. READ MORE

  4. 7. Family Language Policies and Immigrant Language Maintenance : Lithuanian in Sweden

    Author : Frederik H. Bissinger; Peteris Vanags; Anneli Sarhimaa; Katharina M. Ruuska; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; family language policy; language maintenance; language practices; language management; language ideologies; harmonious bilingual development; sociolinguistics; ethnography; Lithuanian; Sweden; baltiska språk; Baltic Languages;

    Abstract : This dissertation investigates family language policies of Lithuanian families in Sweden and strives to shed some light on the maintenance of Lithuanian as a heritage language. The aims of the study are to understand how Lithuanian families in Sweden construct, negotiate and implement their family language policies, and to identify challenges regarding the maintenance of Lithuanian which Lithuanian families in Sweden encounter. READ MORE

  5. 8. Language policy from below : Bilingual education and heterogeneity in post-apartheid South Africa

    Author : Peter Plüddemann; Christopher Stroud; Nancy Hornberger; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; bilingual education; mother tongue; language policy from below; heterogeneity; multilingualism; language ideology; South Africa; tvåspråkighetsforskning; Bilingualism;

    Abstract : The present thesis on bilingual education, with its foci on linguistic heterogeneity and language policy 'from below', covers the first 15 years in the officially multilingual new South Africa. The post-apartheid era has seen South Africa's pro-multilingual Constitution and the language-in-education policy for schools being sidelined in favour of an English-oriented mindset. READ MORE

  6. 9. Language testing and citizenship: a language ideological debate in Sweden

    Author : Tommaso M. Milani; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; language testing; language ideology; language policy; Swedish; Bilingualism; Tvåspråkighet;

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  7. 10. Contrasting language-in-education policy intentions, perceptions and practice : the use of English and Kreol Seselwa in the Seychelles

    Author : Justin Zelime; Mats Deutschmann; Anders Steinvall; Angeline Mbogo Barrett; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Code switching; Kreol Seselwa Seychelles Creole ; L2 Medium of Instruction; Post Colonialism; Language Policy; Translanguaging; Bilingualism; Multilingualism; language studies; språkvetenskap;

    Abstract : Many studies have shown that Second Language (L2) Medium of Instruction (MoI) policies in Africa are linked to educational inequity, substandard teaching practice, low literacy skills and poor overall academic performance. In the light of this background, this thesis aims to make a more thorough inquiry into questions related to language-in-education policies, L2 as MoI, and academic success in the Seychelles, a small island nation in the Indian Ocean. READ MORE