The Relationship between medium of instruction and school achievement for finnish-speaking students in Sweden  

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Lofgren, Horst ; Linde, Sylvia

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Culture and Curriculum (Full Text) vol. 1 no. 2 (1988), page 131-146.

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/LCC/1 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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In Swedish schools special curricula have been designed with the objective of ensuring that immigrant Finnish children will maintain and develop their native language and at the same time achieve a sufficient competence in Swedish to enjoy educational and social opportunities comparable to those of their Swedish-speaking colleagues. The effectiveness of this policy is evaluated in four studies of Finnish-speaking immigrant children attending Swedish schools offering different degrees of Finnish-medium instruction. The students were in primary (Grades 3 and 6) and post-primary (Grade 8) schools. Causal models relating social background, medium of instruction, and school achievement were fitted and replicated. A strong relationship between competence in Swedish and overall scholastic achievement was a constant finding. Interference between Finnish and Swedish, which was observed in Grade 6, had disappeared by Grade 8. Key issues are discussed and a generalised model of immigrant education is proposed.

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