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Multilingual Education in a sign language school environment – To analyse language education from human right perspective
Örebro University, School of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences. (Specialpedagogik, utbildning och lärande)ORCID iD: 0000-0002-3735-0579
2015 (English)Conference paper, Oral presentation with published abstract (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

Students´ language education in Sweden has become important for many reasons. First for it´s particular value for future studies as for the global labor market but also in time of our increasing globalisation. Therefore has multilingual skills become an important access to be able to develop and master in order to be competitive and employable in the global market. At the same time it can be enriching to know other languages. Related to this development pupils in Swedish primary schools are now opting for modern languages ​​as the language may count merit points for the studies to upper secondary school and for higher education. With this shift, questions of language education for all has therefore become important. Along with this issue there is a strong demand to develop language education both for teaching, education as it is for the Swedish School system in general. The Swedish National Agency has therefore in according to The Common European Framework for Languages  present guidelines based on the Council of Europe´s work which consist of teaching, learning and assessment of language skills. More specifically it present six reference levels of language proficiency in order to make it possible to compare skills in different languges, regardless of the school system or degree.As mentioned here language education has become an important issue to develop in conjunction with our globalisation and in education in general. And for this reason it is interesting to discuss how the opportunity for student to learn foreign language at school is organised. Indeed it is both a pedagogical question as it is for the individual its own right to have an adequate  language education. And from a human perspective this question is for this particular reason highlighted in this paper. Moreover in this paper it is discussed which language training is being offered in school not only for hearing student but specifically for  students that is deaf, hard-of-hearing and have CI.

Purpose and aims: The pupils in special school for deaf and hard-of- hearing and with CI follow the same curricula as the National Agency of Education provides. But if looking at the difference special schools give special consideration to students' linguistic and cultural backgrounds. More specifically, it means that the school environment is built upon bilingualism as a pedagogical framework , which means that Swedish and Swedish Sign Language is the language instruction. How is then the language training organised when Swedish Sign is the language instruction while foreign langue is the  language subject? This paper examine this particular  Because students in special schools do not reach the course objectives in modern language, this issue of language training received, be a central concern for this study about students' language training in English and Spanish as modern languages in a sign language school environment. The study highlights the way in which teaching is organized and how teachers and students both use and learn the language topic that is the focus of the lesson. In order to examine the frameworks surrounding language teaching in a sign language school environment, this study on the basis of Ethnography as method and Conversational Analysis as conversation tools, studied the communicative practices in different classrooms. In order to clarify what teachers and students do with the different languages ​​as they interact , the key issues in the study is thus : What distinguishes a multilingual interaction in a sign language environment? And what are the opportunities and limitations features when Swedish and Swedish sign language has a function as a mediating tools in the teaching process?

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2015.
Keywords [en]
human rights perspective, plurilingualism, langugage instruction, practices of communication, ethnography
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Pedagogy
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Education
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URN: urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-90681OAI: oai:DiVA.org:oru-90681DiVA, id: diva2:1539400
Conference
22nd International Congress on the Education of the Deaf (ICED 2015), Athens, Greece, July 6-9, 2015
Available from: 2021-03-23 Created: 2021-03-23 Last updated: 2021-03-24Bibliographically approved

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