Session Information
ERG SES G 05, Vocational Training and Education
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Contribution
The overall aim of this ongoing PhD study is to explore how content and language integrated learning (sheltered instruction) (Brinton, Snow & Wesche, 2004) is established in two content areas specific of the vocational Health and Social Care programme at a multilingual Swedish upper secondary school. The second aim of the study is to explore challenging dilemmas, with explicit focus on some of the students´ inclusion and participation in literacy related activities in these content areas.
The background to the study is the fact that students with another mother tongue than Swedish are overrepresented when it comes to not reaching the goals in upper secondary school and can be put in relation to the question concerning how to educate learners in culturally and linguistically diverse contexts (Skolinspektionen, 2010; Skolverket, 2010; Myndigheten för skolutveckling, 2007). This is also an educational question shared with many of the European countries.
The fact that multilingual students learn the language while studying different school subjects’ means that teachers need to find ways to work with the language while teaching the school subjects (Gibbons, 2006; Hajer 2000). In vocational programs, the subjects differ greatly from the subjects in the compulsory school which implicates the need for all teachers of working more explicitly with the language to bridge the gap between the students’ prior knowledge and the school knowledge as a way to prevent students´ failing.
The overall research question in the study is how the teachers can use the content learning as a resource for the language development, with the explicit focus on increasing the students´ participation in literacy related activities in the content areas at an upper secondary school. The second research question is what the teachers and the students find and define as difficult and challenging concerning literacy related activities in these content areas. The study is based on a sociocultural view of second language, learning and development (Vygotsky, 1978; Gibbons, 2006; Lantolf, 2008; Daniels & Hedegaard, 2011). It means that language development interacts with the sociocultural contexts in which it occurs. The theoretical framework is also based on the Nordic relational paradigm in the field of inclusive education (Tetler, 2009; Göransson, Nilholm & Magnusson, 2012) which means that success or failure needs to be seen as resting not within the individual but in the interactional contributions of others in the educational process.
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