Publications

Publication details [#33094]

Boyd, Sally. 2003. Foreign-born Teachers in the Multilingual Classroom in Sweden: The Role of Attitudes to Foreign Accent. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism : 283–295.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

accent1 | foreign language acquisition | language attitude | language proficiency | teacher

Language as a subject

Swedish

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

ISBN

1367-0050

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This paper deals with the attitudes of Swedish school principals, pupils and other judges towards foreign-born teachers' language proficiency, degree of accentedness and suitability to teach in the Swedish school.