The qualitative case study has been conducted in a segregated preschool where the majority of all children had a common mother tongue and Swedish as a second language. The purpose was to study preschool staff's conceptions of mother tongue and Swedish as a second language. The issues concern the con-ditions for language development in mother tongue and Swedish as a second language and how the practical work is applied. Previous research indicates that mother tongue and Swedish as a second language is a complex problem area with contradictions. Therefore, it was interesting to find out what pre-school staff think about the matter in question. A semi-structured interview has been used as a data collection method. The analysis work was based on a phe-nomenographic strategy for identifying categories of the studied material. The identified categories that emerged are security, the mother tongue, time, moti-vation, visualizing, languaging and dividing. The main conclusion is that the mother tongue in general is seen as a means of achieving Swedish as a second language and that the Swedish language thus gets a higher priority and status.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:kau-71957 |
| Date | January 2019 |
| Creators | Seurujärvi, Mia |
| Publisher | Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för pedagogiska studier (from 2013) |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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