<p>This study aims to examine memory performance in monolingual and bilingual children, and whether novel information (compared to familiar information) is differently recognized by bilingual children compared to monolingual children, and for boys compared to girls. A sample of 49 pupils from Swedish schools (28 bilingual children and 21 monolingual children; and 24 girls and 25 boys) was used in this study. Both bilinguals and monolingual had to remember or make decisions about different lists of words. They also performed two tasks of semantic memory. After that, they had to rate themselves in their proficiency of Swedish knowledge (writing, reading, speaking and understanding) and knowledge in mother tongue (only for bilinguals). In all memory tasks, no differences were found between bilingual and monolingual groups. Also, novel information was recognized similarly to familiar information and none of the groups was different in this regard.</p> / <p>Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka minnesprestationer hos enspråkiga- och tvåspråkiga barn och om ny information känns igen på ett annat sätt än bekant information hos enspråkiga jämfört med tvåspråkiga barn samt hos killar jämfört med tjejer. Ett stickprov på 49 elever från svenska skolor (28 tvåspråkiga och 21 enspråkiga, 24 tjejer och 25 killar) användes i studien. Både enspråkiga- och tvåspråkiga fick i uppgift att komma ihåg och besluta om olika ordlistor. De fick också två test om semantiskt minne. Efteråt fick de bedöma sin förmåga i svenska språket (skriva, läsa, tala och förstå) och tvåspråkiga bedömde även sin förmåga i hemspråket. Inga skillnader fanns mellan grupperna avseende resultaten av minnsestesterna. Vidare upptäcktes inga skillnader i att komma ihåg ny och bekant information hos någon av grupperna.</p>

This study aims to examine memory performance in monolingual and bilingual children, and whether novel information (compared to familiar information) is differently recognized by bilingual children compared to monolingual children, and for boys compared to girls. A sample of 49 pupils from Swedish schools (28 bilingual children and 21 monolingual children; and 24 girls and 25 boys) was used in this study. Both bilinguals and monolingual had to remember or make decisions about different lists of words. They also performed two tasks of semantic memory. After that, they had to rate themselves in their proficiency of Swedish knowledge (writing, reading, speaking and understanding) and knowledge in mother tongue (only for bilinguals). In all memory tasks, no differences were found between bilingual and monolingual groups. Also, novel information was recognized similarly to familiar information and none of the groups was different in this regard. / Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka minnesprestationer hos enspråkiga- och tvåspråkiga barn och om ny information känns igen på ett annat sätt än bekant information hos enspråkiga jämfört med tvåspråkiga barn samt hos killar jämfört med tjejer. Ett stickprov på 49 elever från svenska skolor (28 tvåspråkiga och 21 enspråkiga, 24 tjejer och 25 killar) användes i studien. Både enspråkiga- och tvåspråkiga fick i uppgift att komma ihåg och besluta om olika ordlistor. De fick också två test om semantiskt minne. Efteråt fick de bedöma sin förmåga i svenska språket (skriva, läsa, tala och förstå) och tvåspråkiga bedömde även sin förmåga i hemspråket. Inga skillnader fanns mellan grupperna avseende resultaten av minnsestesterna. Vidare upptäcktes inga skillnader i att komma ihåg ny och bekant information hos någon av grupperna.

The overarching aim of this master thesis is to explore what obligations immigrants have towards the host country in terms of learning the official language. Generally, it is expected that immigrants integrate into their host countries by learning the language, respecting social norms and values, and making economic and political contributions (Macleod, 2021). In my thesis, I will provide a definition of integration and describe the key dimensions of integration–cultural, social, political, and economic. I will discuss language integration in a broader picture, explaining the role of language education concerning these key areas of integration. I will use Sweden as a case in point and utilize official documents regarding language training programs executed by Swedish for Immigrants (SFI). I will assess whether these documents entail norms and values that immigrants should adhere to, as well as sociological research on Swedish norms and values in language courses for immigrants (Carlson, 2021). If they do, I will critically discuss the extent to which immigrants should adopt or adhere to these values and norms. My primary focus will be on immigrants who have legal permission to reside in the host country and who can be seen as standing in a contractual link with the host state. On this basis, then, I will use John Rawls's contractualist approach to provide a normative framework to critically discuss whether a liberal democratic society can require immigrants to undergo language education to integrate into the host country (Rawls, 1971).

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The present text attempts to prepare experts - kindergarten teachers for quality work with children with a different native language - specifically with Vietnamese children. The theoretical part describes important information from the issue of socio-cultural specifics of the Vietnamese minority, to the topic of dealing with the mastery of the Czech language. The theoretical part is devoted to the topic of individual development of kindergarten teachers, multicultural education, and with the integration of Vietnamese children in Czech schools. The practical part describes the main issues that have teachers Czech kindergartens with Vietnamese children. Keywords: preschool education, multicultural education, children with a different mother language, Vietnamese children, integration issues, communication barrier.

O foco principal deste estudo volta-se para a fala no jogo dramático, a fala que acrescenta ao significado semântico a expressão sonora, sua musicalidade. O caminho que leva a este estudo, no entanto, é fundamental para sua compreensão. A sensibilidade, a invenção, presentes nos jogos e brincadeiras durante minha infância, prosseguiram até a concretização da vida profissional. A EMIA, Escola Municipal de Iniciação Artística, é o lugar que, além de apresentar estas características, estimulou a pesquisa constante. A Música, área da minha formação, pôde ampliar seus limites e adentrar o universo do Teatro. A pesquisa da sonoridade da fala no jogo dramático apoia-se em procedimentos da música contemporânea, acompanhando o mesmo foco enfatizado por Jean-Pierre Ryngaert a respeito da utilização dos procedimentos teatrais. Ryngaert é uma referência central neste estudo. O grupo que se apresenta como objeto experimental da pesquisa é formado por alunos da FAAM, da Licenciatura e do Bacharelado de Canto. Além de o trabalho estar diretamente voltado para a materialidade sonora e expressiva da fala, este estudo também aponta para possibilidades no campo da Educação Musical. A poesia é a matéria prima que dará corpo à nova materialidade durante as improvisações. É a partir das discussões com os alunos na \"Roda de conversa\" que o texto poético vira fala e que a fala vira pura poesia. A \"Roda de conversa\" instala-se como grande forma neste estudo, na medida em que se alastra fora da sala de aula e passa a criar um espaço ainda mais amplo, incluindo o diálogo com as vozes dos autores escolhidos como convidados nesta grande roda. O jogo dramático concebido por Ryngaert, enriquecido pela pesquisa sonora da fala aqui apresentada, busca a possibilidade da ampliação do universo sensível e artístico dos participantes através da integração de duas linguagens artísticas, o Teatro e a Música. O campo de pesquisa que acolhe este estudo é o Ensino da Arte. / The main focus of this study directs itself to the speech in the dramatic play. The speech that adds to the semantic meaning its own sound expression, its musicality. The way taken to this study, however, is fundamental or essential to understand it. The sensibility and the invention, both present in the plays and games of my childhood have evolved to the concretion of my professional life. EMIA, the Municipal School of Artistic Initiation, is the place that has not only accepted these characteristics but also stimulated this constant research. Music, my major, could expand its limits and get into the Theatre universe. The research on the sonority of the speech in the dramatic play sustains itself over contemporary music procedures, accompanying the same focus emphasized by Ryngaert, who is the main reference in this study, in the use of theatrical procedures. The group presented here as the experimental SUBJECT of this research is formed by bachelor and undergraduate students of FAAM. Besides the fact that this work is faced to the speech\'s sound and expressive materiality, it is also sustained over educational aspects, showing opening possibilities in the Educational Music field. Poetry is the feedstock/raw material that will shape up the new materiality that will rise over the improvisations. It is from the discussion process made with the students in the \"Conversation Circle\" that the poetic text becomes speech, and the speech becomes pure poetry. The \"Conversation Circle\" settles itself as the major form in this study; it spreads out of the classroom and starts to create an even wider space, which includes dialogs with the chosen authors\' voices as guests in this great circle. The dramatic play as conceived by Ryngaert, enriched by the sound research of the speech which is presented here seeks a possibility to extend the sensitive and artistic universe of the participants through the integration of these two distinct artistic languages: The Theatre and Music. The Field research that determinates this study is the Teaching Art.

O foco principal deste estudo volta-se para a fala no jogo dramático, a fala que acrescenta ao significado semântico a expressão sonora, sua musicalidade. O caminho que leva a este estudo, no entanto, é fundamental para sua compreensão. A sensibilidade, a invenção, presentes nos jogos e brincadeiras durante minha infância, prosseguiram até a concretização da vida profissional. A EMIA, Escola Municipal de Iniciação Artística, é o lugar que, além de apresentar estas características, estimulou a pesquisa constante. A Música, área da minha formação, pôde ampliar seus limites e adentrar o universo do Teatro. A pesquisa da sonoridade da fala no jogo dramático apoia-se em procedimentos da música contemporânea, acompanhando o mesmo foco enfatizado por Jean-Pierre Ryngaert a respeito da utilização dos procedimentos teatrais. Ryngaert é uma referência central neste estudo. O grupo que se apresenta como objeto experimental da pesquisa é formado por alunos da FAAM, da Licenciatura e do Bacharelado de Canto. Além de o trabalho estar diretamente voltado para a materialidade sonora e expressiva da fala, este estudo também aponta para possibilidades no campo da Educação Musical. A poesia é a matéria prima que dará corpo à nova materialidade durante as improvisações. É a partir das discussões com os alunos na \"Roda de conversa\" que o texto poético vira fala e que a fala vira pura poesia. A \"Roda de conversa\" instala-se como grande forma neste estudo, na medida em que se alastra fora da sala de aula e passa a criar um espaço ainda mais amplo, incluindo o diálogo com as vozes dos autores escolhidos como convidados nesta grande roda. O jogo dramático concebido por Ryngaert, enriquecido pela pesquisa sonora da fala aqui apresentada, busca a possibilidade da ampliação do universo sensível e artístico dos participantes através da integração de duas linguagens artísticas, o Teatro e a Música. O campo de pesquisa que acolhe este estudo é o Ensino da Arte. / The main focus of this study directs itself to the speech in the dramatic play. The speech that adds to the semantic meaning its own sound expression, its musicality. The way taken to this study, however, is fundamental or essential to understand it. The sensibility and the invention, both present in the plays and games of my childhood have evolved to the concretion of my professional life. EMIA, the Municipal School of Artistic Initiation, is the place that has not only accepted these characteristics but also stimulated this constant research. Music, my major, could expand its limits and get into the Theatre universe. The research on the sonority of the speech in the dramatic play sustains itself over contemporary music procedures, accompanying the same focus emphasized by Ryngaert, who is the main reference in this study, in the use of theatrical procedures. The group presented here as the experimental SUBJECT of this research is formed by bachelor and undergraduate students of FAAM. Besides the fact that this work is faced to the speech\'s sound and expressive materiality, it is also sustained over educational aspects, showing opening possibilities in the Educational Music field. Poetry is the feedstock/raw material that will shape up the new materiality that will rise over the improvisations. It is from the discussion process made with the students in the \"Conversation Circle\" that the poetic text becomes speech, and the speech becomes pure poetry. The \"Conversation Circle\" settles itself as the major form in this study; it spreads out of the classroom and starts to create an even wider space, which includes dialogs with the chosen authors\' voices as guests in this great circle. The dramatic play as conceived by Ryngaert, enriched by the sound research of the speech which is presented here seeks a possibility to extend the sensitive and artistic universe of the participants through the integration of these two distinct artistic languages: The Theatre and Music. The Field research that determinates this study is the Teaching Art.

(in English): This diploma thesis is focused on the Russian-speaking immigrants living in the Czech Republic, specifically on a group of those originating in Ukraine. It deals mainly with their speech behaviour during speeches in the language of the target country of their emigration, i.e., the Czech language, on the background of sociological, cultural and economic aspects. The thesis is divided into three basic chapters. The first chapter provides a brief description of the Russian-speaking emigration with the emphasis on the Ukrainian emigration. The main waves of the Ukrainian emigration from the end of 19th century to the present are described in this chapter. The target group of the study is the Ukrainian emigration after the fall of the communist regime in 1989 which is mainly concerned about the immigration of Czech compatriots and of labour emigration. Basic research strategies and the methodology of the study are described in the second chapter. Mainly qualitative research methods as well as quantitative methods were used in the thesis and the results of the quantitative method serve primarily to ensure the validity of the study during the linguistic analysis of individual respondents. The last chapter focuses on the research itself, it describes its process and results which stem from...

Achieving equitable opportunities to learn has been recognized as an important issue in multilingual content classrooms. However, partially because mathematics is conceptualized as a language-free subject, there is limited research examining linguistic minority students’ opportunities to learn in mathematics classrooms. The purpose of this research is to identify linguistic minority students’ opportunities to learn in mathematics classrooms in a Canadian multilingual urban elementary school, where English was the main instructional language. Drawing on cultural historical activity theory, this study focuses on two aspects of learning: externalization, which emphasizes learners’ creation of new cultural artifacts and new contexts to apply the given artifacts, and internalization, which emphasizes learners’ acquisition of preexisting cultural artifacts. In this ethnographic study, I examined the activity systems of participatory action research (PAR) with the activity system of regular mathematics lessons. Within these activity systems, I focused on newly-arrived English language learners’ (ELLs) participation. Specifically, I examined the range of opportunities to learn afforded to students in the two activity systems and identified how focal ELLs accessed these opportunities to learn. In the activity system of PAR, which emphasized externalization, students conducted research and presented their conclusions in order to implement changes in their school environment. All students, however, did not participate equally. Specifically, the focal ELLs were not able to access these opportunities to learn as a result of group dynamics, marginalized social identities, and other students’ perceptions of their linguistic ability. In the activity system of regular mathematics lessons, which emphasized internalization, the teacher organized lessons in ways that allowed focal ELLs to receive extra support and resources to reach the curriculum expectations. These mathematics lessons allowed focal ELLs to increase their participation through mathematical reasoning, problem solving, and explanations with a variety of resources including visual representations. A critical examination of the interactions revealed that focal ELLs’ opportunities to learn were expanded or limited depending upon classroom configurations. Furthermore, this research suggests that students’ social identities serve as both a medium and a product of learning. These results have valuable implications for developing inclusive classroom practices and curriculum in multilingual content classrooms.

Achieving equitable opportunities to learn has been recognized as an important issue in multilingual content classrooms. However, partially because mathematics is conceptualized as a language-free subject, there is limited research examining linguistic minority students’ opportunities to learn in mathematics classrooms. The purpose of this research is to identify linguistic minority students’ opportunities to learn in mathematics classrooms in a Canadian multilingual urban elementary school, where English was the main instructional language. Drawing on cultural historical activity theory, this study focuses on two aspects of learning: externalization, which emphasizes learners’ creation of new cultural artifacts and new contexts to apply the given artifacts, and internalization, which emphasizes learners’ acquisition of preexisting cultural artifacts. In this ethnographic study, I examined the activity systems of participatory action research (PAR) with the activity system of regular mathematics lessons. Within these activity systems, I focused on newly-arrived English language learners’ (ELLs) participation. Specifically, I examined the range of opportunities to learn afforded to students in the two activity systems and identified how focal ELLs accessed these opportunities to learn. In the activity system of PAR, which emphasized externalization, students conducted research and presented their conclusions in order to implement changes in their school environment. All students, however, did not participate equally. Specifically, the focal ELLs were not able to access these opportunities to learn as a result of group dynamics, marginalized social identities, and other students’ perceptions of their linguistic ability. In the activity system of regular mathematics lessons, which emphasized internalization, the teacher organized lessons in ways that allowed focal ELLs to receive extra support and resources to reach the curriculum expectations. These mathematics lessons allowed focal ELLs to increase their participation through mathematical reasoning, problem solving, and explanations with a variety of resources including visual representations. A critical examination of the interactions revealed that focal ELLs’ opportunities to learn were expanded or limited depending upon classroom configurations. Furthermore, this research suggests that students’ social identities serve as both a medium and a product of learning. These results have valuable implications for developing inclusive classroom practices and curriculum in multilingual content classrooms.