Publications

Publication details [#65283]

Thorstensson Dávila, Liv. 2018. The pivotal and peripheral roles of bilingual classroom assistants at a Swedish elementary school. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 21 (8) : 956–967.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingualism | education | immigrant | language of instruction | primary school

Language as a subject

Arabic | Somali | Swedish

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This qualitative inquiry explores how the individual roles and ideologies of four Arabic and Somali bilingual classroom assistants at a primary school in Sweden both reflect and defy broader discourses on language, education and social integration.