Viewpoints about Educational Language Policies: Multilingualism in Sweden and Switzerland

Lundberg, Adrian

doi:10.24834/isbn.9789178770779

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“…31-48) that 'multilingualism should be centrally linked with shared communication, economic and civic betterment, and social cohesion. However, (Lundberg, 2020) assumes that if a political entity of a country, like Switzerland, is multilingual, then the population is also multilingual. Lundberg (2019) stated that multilingualism, capabilities in the registers of different linguistic codes, is a critical element of the Swiss national culture.…”

Section: Language Culture In Switzerlandmentioning

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German as Foreign Language Insight into the Teaching Units in Switzerland

Güntensperger,

Asali-van der Wal

2024

INT J INSTRUCTION

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Language is the mode of identity and recognition. Summer learning programs are essential in helping children and young people interact and develop solid ethical bonds in different communities. The study aims to determine the effectiveness and applicability of the teaching model or approach adopted by the schools in Switzerland in teaching and learning German as a foreign language. The study adopts a case study approach to choose a summer language course program under the Swiss boarding School Montana. A qualitative approach has been employed to gauge the effectiveness of teaching German as a foreign language in the Swiss boarding school in Montana. Results: The study reviews Communicative Language Theory (CLT) and explores the designed curriculum for teaching German as a foreign language (GFL). It is revealed that the teachers developed their activities through the communicative activities described by CLT. The study concludes that adopting pre-communicative activities as a part of the teaching method is more effective in learning German as a foreign language.

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Section: Language Culture In Switzerlandmentioning

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German as Foreign Language Insight into the Teaching Units in Switzerland

Güntensperger,

Asali-van der Wal

2024

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“…Notwithstanding a few exceptions (e.g., Lundberg, 2020), comparisons with other countries in Scandinavia and the European mainland are few and far between. Swedish educational sciences have at times suffered critique for not being sufficiently international, and the question is whether the lack of comparative studies observed contributes to this critique.…”

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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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Viewpoints about Educational Language Policies: Multilingualism in Sweden and Switzerland

Abstract: This thesis is based on three international peer-reviewed publications and one submitted manuscript under review. The articles are appended to the thesis and will be referred to by the roman numerals.

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German as Foreign Language Insight into the Teaching Units in Switzerland

German as Foreign Language Insight into the Teaching Units in Switzerland

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

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