Special Education Teachers’ Narratives on Literacy Support for Bilingual Students with Dyslexia in Swedish Compulsory Schools

Jalali-Moghadam, Niloufar, 1981- (author): Örebro universitet,Institutionen för juridik, psykologi och socialt arbete

Hedman, Christina, 1966- (author): Stockholms universitet,Institutionen för språkdidaktik,Department of Language Education, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

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2016-06-13
2016
English.
In: Nordic Journal of Literacy Research. - : Cappelen Damm AS - Cappelen Damm Akademisk. - 2464-1596. ; 2, s. 1-18

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Abstract Subject headings

The aim of the study is to investigate how special education teachers talk about their teaching in relation to bilingual students with dyslexia within Swedish compulsory schools. Data consist of transcripts from in-depth interviews with 15 special education teachers. According to the teacher narratives, the special education services appeared to be biased against bilingual students, as the support provided to bilingual students with dyslexia was revealed to be more or less the same as that provided to monolingual Swedish-speaking students with dyslexia. This bias is discussed in relation to the notion of difference blindness as well as in relation to practical constraints. Nevertheless, the teachers strongly advocated collaborative work with mother tongue teachers in order to facilitate dyslexia identification in bilingual students and to gain a more comprehensive picture of their language and literacy competencies, which is a desire that contrasts and contests a pedagogical monolingual master model within special education services.

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