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Abstract
This article reports the results of a survey focusing on the educational context of second foreign languages (SFL) to which 147 Swedish secondary school leaders responded. The study aims to provide a picture of how SFLs like German, French and Spanish are organised in a representative selection of Swedish schools across the country. The results of the survey show that there are major differences between languages when it comes to the language offer and the number of pupils and teachers in the respective languages. Moreover, there are also important differences between schools, some of which can be related to educational, socio-economic and regional aspects of the responding schools. A general conclusion of the survey is that conditions for SFLs currently vary across languages and across the country. One of the main challenges for the future seems to be to maintain a varying offer of languages in a majority of schools.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 3 |
Pages (from-to) | 27-48 |
Number of pages | 20 |
Journal | Apples - Journal of Applied Language Studies |
Volume | 13 |
Issue number | 1 |
Publication status | Published - 2019 Feb 19 |
Event | Learning, teaching and assessment of second foreign languages in school contexts - Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund, Sweden Duration: 2016 Dec 12 → 2016 Dec 13 http://www.tal.lu.se/conference-on-second-foreign-languages-dec-2016/ |
Subject classification (UKÄ)
- General Language Studies and Linguistics
- Educational Sciences
Free keywords
- Foreign language policy
- compulsory secondary education
- second foreign languages
- Sweden
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TAL: Learning, Teaching and Assessment of Second Foreign Languages - an Alignment Study on Oral Language Proficiency in the Swedish School Context
Sayehli, S. (Researcher), Granfelt, J. (PI), Ågren, M. (Researcher), Bardel, C. (Researcher), Erickson, G. (Researcher) & Österberg, R. (Researcher)
2016/01/01 → 2018/12/31
Project: Research
Activities
- 1 Organisation of conference
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Learning, teaching and assessment of second foreign languages in school contexts
Granfelt, J. (Organiser), Ågren, M. (Organiser), Sayehli, S. (Organiser), Erickson, G. (Organiser), Bardel, C. (Organiser) & Österberg, R. (Organiser)
2016 Dec 12Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Organisation of conference