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ERG SES H 04, Intercultural education
Parallel Paper Session
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Finnish skills of immigrant pupils in the sixth grade in Turku
Nowadays in the schools around the world are increasingly immigrants pupils. The schools have to take into account the students, who are learning the new language and organize new teaching methods, groups and cuuriculum, that they settle in society and don't drop out of school.
The purpose of this study is to explore the variation of immigrant pupils’ skills of Finnish as a second language in the sixth grade in Turku. The study also explores how the variables (mother tongue, gender, educational background of the pupils’ parents, the age and reason of moving to Finland and the time lived in Finland) and teaching arrangements such as preparatory stage, lessons in mother tongue and Finnish as a second language influence the pupils’ Finnish language proficiency.
The theoretical background of study is based on the scientific research and statistics on immigrant pupils and teaching. Also theories on bilingualism and second language acquisition as well as evaluation of language proficiency are central to the theoretical context.
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