Det stiller meget store krav til lærerne, når der ikke findes gode læremidler til nyankomne og flersprogede elever, siger professor Joke Dewilde. De risikerer ubevidst at genskabe ubehagelige hierarkier i klassen.

"Med denne kunnskapen er det lettere å målrette innsatsen og gi tilpasset språkstøtte til dem som trenger det", sier en av forskerne bak en ny norsk studie.

Forskere finner til dels overraskende mønstre av forskjeller mellom flerspråklige barn.

Bilingual education is the most effective way to help English learners acquire English, according to research cited during a recent webinar. The research highlights benefits such as better academic outcomes and higher graduation rates.

The article explores how students in a linguistically and ethnically diverse neighbourhood are constructed and positioned by school professionals, and how this influences teaching and other school practices.

The purpose of the study was to investigate how the reading skills of monolingual Swedish (n = 269) and bilingual Finnish–Swedish (n = 229) children in Swedish-medium schools in Finland develop from Grade 1 to Grade 3 and how vocabulary, rapid automatized naming and decoding speed in Grade 1 predict reading fluency and comprehension in Grade 3. 

Flerspråkiga elever som behöver särskilt stöd riskerar att hamna mellan stolarna. Den här studien visar att modersmålslärare och studiehandledare behöver samarbeta med specialpedagoger för att flerspråkiga elever ska få rätt hjälp.

In this study, the aim is to explore what genres can be found in applications used in preschool as a way to facilitate preschool teachers’ informed choices and raise awareness concerning the importance of choosing digital content carefully. In particular, applications that facilitate communication beyond a verbal majority language are in focus in this study.