Publications

Publication details [#66033]

Lundberg, Adrian. 2019. Teachers’ beliefs about multilingualism: findings from Q method research. Current Issues in Language Planning 20 (3) : 266–283.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

monolingualism | multilingualism | pedagogy | primary school | teacher

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This inquiry examines (40 female) teachers’ beliefs about multilingualism and multilingual students in Swedish primary schools. Overall, teachers’ beliefs are rather hospitable towards multilingualism and multilingual students and recent notions with increasing acceptance in literature, like translanguaging, are well received. However, sceptic views, frequently based on monolingual ideologies are extant.