The Development of Swedish Receptive Vocabulary in CLIL: A Multilingual Perspective

• The fact that parallel English and Swedish data were collected on two consecutive occasions in the CLISS project offers a unique opportunity to compare the effects of CLIL in terms of English as well as Swedish language development on a longitudinal basis. A substantial proportion of the students taking part in the CLISS project were second language (L2) speakers of Swedish, which from a multilingual perspective makes such comparisons even more interesting. This chapter concerns vocabulary development with a special focus on L2 Swedish students in CLIL. Before turning to the field of L2 vocabulary development and the actual study, we will give a brief background of English in multilingual Sweden, the recently adopted Swedish Language Act, and multilingual students in CLIL.

Subject headings

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Utbildningsvetenskap -- Didaktik (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Educational Sciences -- Didactics (hsv//eng)

HUMANIORA  -- Språk och litteratur -- Jämförande språkvetenskap och allmän lingvistik (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- Languages and Literature -- General Language Studies and Linguistics (hsv//eng)

HUMANIORA  -- Språk och litteratur -- Studier av enskilda språk (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- Languages and Literature -- Specific Languages (hsv//eng)

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Utbildningsvetenskap -- Pedagogik (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Educational Sciences -- Pedagogy (hsv//eng)

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Utbildningsvetenskap -- Lärande (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Educational Sciences -- Learning (hsv//eng)

Publication and Content Type

ref (subject category)

kap (subject category)