English as a transcultural language in Swedish policy and practice
Författare
Summary, in English
The globalization of English in Sweden is examined as it takes shape in educational policy and practice. Following in the tradition of a “new wave” of language policy and planning research that emphasizes connections between policy and how it is interpreted by local stakeholders, this investigation focuses on textual data from Swedish national curricular documents and observational data of preservice English language educators during teacher training. Discourse analysis was conducted in order to illuminate underlying policy discourses, on the one hand, and facilitate tracing intertextual connections to the voices of educators, on the other hand. Drawing upon current perspectives on linguistic globalization, major discursive tensions engendered in the processes of transculturation through which English as a global language is locally situated in Sweden are brought to light. The study illustrates how educational language policy serves as a discursive space for ongoing negotiation about the status of English in Sweden.
Avdelning/ar
- Language Acquisition
- Language, Cognition and Discourse@Lund (LCD@L)
Publiceringsår
2012
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
230-257
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
TESOL Quarterly
Volym
46
Issue
2
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Wiley-Blackwell
Ämne
- Languages and Literature
- Educational Sciences
Nyckelord
- English
- education
- Sweden
- teaching
- multilingualism
- policy
Status
Published
Forskningsgrupp
- Language Acquisition
- Language, Cognition and Discourse@Lund (LCD@L)
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 1545-7249