An intercomprehension study of multilingual Swedish L1 speakers reading and decoding words in text in Italian, an unknown language

Smidfelt, Linda

doi:10.1016/j.lingua.2017.11.003

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“…Prior knowledge about the subject of the text comes into play to help figure out unfamiliar words and concepts in a new discourse. Similar results were obtained by other researchers (Guseva & Shamov, 2018;Kruchinina et al, 2018;Mieszkowska & Otwinowska-Kasztelanic, 2015;Smidfelt, 2018;Smidfelt & Weijer, 2019;Sokolova & Plisov, 2019).…”

Section: Problem Statementsupporting

confidence: 91%

Reading Strategies And Language World Picture Relationship In Foreign Language Acquisition

Levina¹,

Romanovskaya²,

Guseva³

et al. 2021

European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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Section: Problem Statementsupporting

confidence: 91%

Reading Strategies And Language World Picture Relationship In Foreign Language Acquisition

Levina¹,

Romanovskaya²,

Guseva³

et al. 2021

European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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“…Other Romance languages were not used to the same extent as English or Swedish, which points to the role of high proficiency for strategic use of other languages. Furthermore, Smidfelt (2018) and Smidfelt and van de Weijer (2019) investigated translation from Italian to Swedish, other Romance languages, or English. All known languages were to some extent activated and used for comprehension.…”

Section: Research On Learning Teaching and Assessing English And Othe...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Research on foreign language learning, teaching, and assessment in Sweden 2012–2021

2023

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This review provides an account of salient research topics in current Swedish research in the field of foreign language (FL) education, with the aim of making locally published work available outside Sweden. A corpus of work on English and other FLs published between 2012 and 2021 has been scrutinized. Focus has been placed on research conducted and disseminated in Sweden, in some cases adding international publications, in order to portray the work in a wider context. Research on FL learning, teaching, and assessment is reviewed in light of recent policy changes as well as a changing linguistic situation characterized by a plethora of languages spoken in society, among which Swedish as majority language and English as lingua franca share indisputable sovereignty, but where a newly-born interest in the role of other background languages than Swedish can be discerned. The study ends with a discussion of trends observed in the reviewed material and considerations in view of future research.

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“…A case study in this area is Smidfelt (2018) which explores the role of Swedish L1 speakers' background languages for the comprehension of written Italian, for them an unknown language. This case study forms a part of a dissertation project on intercomprehension with a focus on written Italian (Smidfelt 2019).…”

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Case Study Research in Multilingual Contexts

Hammarberg¹

2023

The Cambridge Handbook of Third Language Acquisition

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This chapter presents and discusses the methodological approach of case study in connection with research on third language acquisition and other areas of multilingualism and gives an overview of occurring case studies in these fields. The first section after a brief introduction, Case study as an approach to knowledge, deals with the purpose of case study and characteristic features such as the real-life orientation and the holistic perspective, as well as the issue of generalizability. The second section. The focus on multilingualism and the acquisition of several languages, discusses the nature and development of multilingual linguistic repertoires. Case studies here often cover large and complex repertoires. The overview of studies in the section Case studies in multilingual contexts has a main focus on the third language acquisition area, but also deals with related thematic areas such as intercomprehension processes, polyglotism, linguistic autobiographies and studies visualizing the multilingual subject.

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An intercomprehension study of multilingual Swedish L1 speakers reading and decoding words in text in Italian, an unknown language

Cited by 4 publications

References 26 publications

Reading Strategies And Language World Picture Relationship In Foreign Language Acquisition

Reading Strategies And Language World Picture Relationship In Foreign Language Acquisition

Research on foreign language learning, teaching, and assessment in Sweden 2012–2021

Case Study Research in Multilingual Contexts

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