About 15% of the Swedish high school students have been born abroad. Yet, we know very little about how the age at migration is related to foreign language learning in high school. Using data on all students that graduated between 1998 and 2012 at a Swedish high school, this study shows that a higher age at migration has a negative effect on the probability of having studied German as well as German, Spanish or French at the high school level. However, for students that studied a foreign language at the high school level, a higher age at migration leads to improves the performances in this subject in relation to the performance in other subjects. These findings indicate that current Swedish regulations, where lower secondary level students need to choose between foreign languages and additional education in Swedish and English, leads to long-lasting disadvantages of migrant students.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:su-199936 |
| Date | January 2021 |
| Creators | Hoherz, Andreas |
| Publisher | Stockholms universitet, Tyska |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | German |
| 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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