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- Allardt Ljunggren, Barbro, 1957-
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Åland som språksamhälle : Språk och språkliga attityder på Åland ur ett ungdomsperspektiv
- 2008
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The present thesis deals with Åland, i.e. the Åland Islands, as a language environment. Its main focus is on the language attitudes of adolescents. The status, role and use of Swedish, Finnish and English are topical. Its main part consists of an empirical study, which is based on an extensive questionnaire answered by students in grade 9 of primary school and in the second grade of the (theoretical) secondary school in Åland.The thesis includes a description of Åland as a language environment. The legal framework making Åland an autonomous region in Finland with Swedish as the only official language is presented. Language policies in Åland are compared with those of Sweden and Finland (outside of Åland). Special treatment is given to the school as a linguistic environment and recent language related debate in Åland.The central questions in the questionnaire relate to language choice, media habits, subjective estimations of the respondents’ own language competence and language attitudes in a broad sense.Six hypotheses based on a model of secure and insecure majorities and minorities as well as the Interactive Acculturation Model are postulated and treated.The results of the empirical study reveal very strong feelings of affinity towards Åland. Attitudes towards English and English-speakers are in general positive. The results reveal somewhat ambivalent attitudes towards Finnish and Finland. Many variables show a tendency among the respondents to favour Sweden ahead of Finland and negative attitudes towards Finnish but there are also other conflicting results. The respondents who have parents who speak Finnish to them display more positive attitudes towards Finnish and Finland. These differences between the groups are statistically significant. However, the group with a Finnish language background also displays its strongest feelings of affinity towards Åland.
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- Gynne, Annaliina, 1980-
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Languaging and Social Positioning in Multilingual School Practices : Studies of Sweden Finnish Middle School Years
- 2016
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The overall aim of the thesis is to examine young people’s languaging, including literacy practices, and its relation to meaning-making and social positioning. Framed by sociocultural and dialogical perspectives, the thesis builds upon four studies that arise from (n)ethnographic fieldwork conducted in two different settings: an institutional educational setting where bilingualism and biculturalism are core values, and social media settings.In the empirical studies, micro-level interactions, practices mediated by languaging and literacies, social positionings and meso-level discourses as well as their intertwinedness have been explored and discussed. The data, analysed through adapted conversational and discourse analytical methods, include video and audio recordings, field notes, pedagogic materials, policy documents, photographs as well as (n)ethnographic data.Study I illuminates the doing of linguistic-cultural ideologies and policies in everyday pedagogical practices and focuses on situated and distributed social actions as nexuses of several practices where a number of locally and nationally relevant discourses circulate. In Study II, the focus is on everyday communicative practices on the micro and meso levels and the interrelations of different linguistic varieties and modalities in the bilingual-bicultural educational setting. Study III highlights young people’s languaging, including literacies, in everyday learning practices that stretch across formal and informal learning spaces. Study IV examines social positioning and identity work in informal and heteroglossic literacy practices across the offline-online continuum. Consequently, the four studies map the kinds of languaging practices young people are engaged in both inside and outside of what are labelled as bilingual school settings. Furthermore, the studies highlight the kinds of social positions they perform and are oriented towards in the course of their everyday lives.Overall, the findings of the thesis highlight issues of bilingualism as pedagogy and practice, the (un)problematicity of multilingualism across space and time and multilingual-multimodal languaging as a premise for social positioning. Together, the studies and the thesis form a descriptive-analytical illustration of “multilingual” young people’s everyday lives in and out of school in late modern societies of the global North. Overall, the thesis provides insights concerning the education and lives of a large, yet sparsely documented minority group in Sweden, i.e. the Sweden Finns.
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- Gynne, Annaliina, et al.
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Linguistic and cultural ideologies and policies in education : An ethnographic case study of a “bilingual” Sweden Finnish School
- 2013
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This paper explores linguistic-cultural ideologies and educational policies as they emerge and are negotiated in everyday life in a bilingual school setting, located in the geopolitical spaces of Sweden. Taking sociocultural theory and discourse analysis as points of departure, we focus on empirical examples of classroom interaction and locally established formal policing. Linguistic-cultural ideologies and educational policies that frame life at the school are investigated by employing nexus analytical methods, focusing on social (inter)actions through which a number of locally and nationally relevant discourses circulate. Our findings indicate that refocusing ideology and policy research from the lens of a practiced perspective allows the situated and distributed nature of everyday life to inform issues related to bilingualism as well as their relations to wider societal discourses. Furthermore, our analysis highlights the crucial role of educators in (re)locating bilingual education in its societal contexts as well as making these connections visible in classrooms.
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- Gynne, Annaliina, 1980-, et al.
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Practiced linguistic-cultural ideologies and educational policies : A case study of a "bilingual Sweden Finnish School"
- 2016
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Ingår i: Journal of Language, Identity & Education. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1534-8458 .- 1532-7701. ; 15:6, s. 329-343
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article explores linguistic-cultural ideologies and educational policies as they emerge and are negotiated in everyday life in a bilingual school setting, located in the geopolitical spaces of Sweden. Taking sociocultural theory and discourse analysis as points of departure, we focus on empirical examples of classroom interaction and locally established formal policing. Linguistic-cultural ideologies and educational policies that frame life at the school are investigated by employing nexus analytical methods, focusing on social (inter)actions through which a number of locally and nationally relevant discourses circulate. Our findings indicate that refocusing ideology and policy research from the lens of a practiced perspective allows the situated and distributed nature of everyday life to inform issues related to bilingualism as well as their relations to wider societal discourses. Furthermore, our analysis highlights the crucial role of educators in (re)locating bilingual education in its societal contexts as well as making these connections visible in classrooms.
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- Gynne, Annaliina, 1980-, et al.
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The Role and Importance of Bilingual Minority Schools’ Pupils for Inter-Nordic and Bilateral Language Communication in a Majority Context
- 2009
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The long-term efforts to strengthen the Inter-Nordic semi-communication between the Scandinavian languages have by large been successful, but mainly between speakers of Danish-Norwegian-Swedish. Finland’s position in this since long established inter-Nordic cooperation has been strengthened by the high-level bilinguality among Finland Swedes, the Swedish-speaking minority in Finland. The potential of Sweden Finns (a Finnish-speaking minority in Sweden) as a bridging factor has not been actively developed to become an asset in the Inter-Nordic labour market. One reason is the failure of the Swedish educational system to fully promote the bilingual capacity of Sweden Finnish adolescents, other possible reasons are likely to be revealed by the study.This paper presents an ongoing research project that focuses on the bilingual capacity of young Sweden Finns and on finding out how this capacity is taken into account as a potential resource in Inter-Nordic semi-communication. This concerns both the youth themselves, and the potential employers of some sectors of society. A follow-up aim is to promote the bilingual capacity of minority speakers, in the first place that of Sweden Finnish youth, but in a wider perspective, that of other bilingual speakers of lesser-used and major Nordic languages.The study is intended to function as a case study concerning in particular Sweden Finnish youth. Its aim is to create a model possible to copy to other similar situations involving bilingual education and its role for closing the gap between the Scandinavian and Finno-Ugric languages, in the first place. In a wider perspective the project concerns how Nordic languages are promoted in the process of globalization in comparison to specifically English, in this inter-Nordic perspective.The study consists of several steps which aim at describing whether and how the bilingual capacity of Sweden Finns is taken into account as a potential to retain and strengthen Inter-Nordic semi-communication. The study contains three aspects:a) A survey study to Nordic, bilateral Swedish-Finnish, Swedish and Finnish institutions and organizations. The aim of the study is to chart the organizations’ consciousness about the potential of Sweden Finnish minority speakers’ language resources, and how this is taken into account.b) An interview study/language competence evaluation among a selection of school-leavers from independent bilingual schools in Sweden. The aim of this study is to find out what the linguistic capacity is among adolescents at school-leaving age, both through self-evaluation and by studying some language competence indicators.c) A survey study among former pupils of independent bilingual schools, regarding their evaluation of the use and value of their bilingual capacity in the labour markets at Nordic level, in Sweden and Finland.The paper presents the research design, aims in greater detail and some preliminary results as well as a selection of analyses from the survey studies.
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