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Multilingual Policies and Multilingual Education in the Nordic Countries

Year: 2013

Type: article

Abstract: This article presents some aspects of multilingualism and multilingual education in the Nordiccountries, drawing upon experiences from the project Network for Researchers ofMultilingualism and Multilingual Education, RoMME (2011-2013), where Denmark, Finland,Norway and Sweden are represented. The aim is to briefly present and discuss some similarand differing trends within the field of multilingualism and multilingual education in the Nordiccountries, taking into account both outside and inside perspectives. On the basis of theRoMME-experiences a tentative holistic cross-professional framework of reference forunderstanding and researching multilingual education policies and individual language learningpaths is suggested and discussed.

Source: lnternational Electronic Journal of Elementary Education

Authors: Mikaela BJÖRKLUND, Siv BJÖRKLUND, Kaj SJÖHOLM

Institutions: Åbo Akademi University, University of Vaasa

Language: English

Topic: Multilingual Education and Policy

Subfield: Linguistics and Language

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Quality education

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $350

Funder: NordForsk