Publications

Publication details [#59031]

Björklund, Siv, Karita Mård-Miettinen and Marjo Savijärvi. 2014. Swedish immersion in the early years in Finland. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 17 (2) : 197–214.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

foreign language teaching | kindergarten | L2-acquisition | language input | language use

Language as a subject

Finnish | Swedish

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This paper discusses early Swedish immersion education in Finland for Finnish-speaking kindergarten, preschool and primary students, focusing on explicit teacher verbalisation of shared kindergarten activity and context, resulting in recycled and spontaneous child Swedish L2 use.