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Swedish as a foreign language
About: Swedish as a foreign language is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 8 publications have been published within this topic receiving 68 citations.
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01 Jan 2011
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the importance of how an idyllic view of Sweden affects students studying Swedish as a foreign language as part of their studies in Scandinavistics and propose an intertextual approach when using texts for studies in foreign languages.
Abstract: This licentiate-thesis, Stories About a red Cottage, is an attempt to combine cultural theory with a didactic method applied to Swedish as a field of study. With the two notions intertextuality and the foreign as a starting point, I discuss the importance of how an idyllic view of Sweden affects students studying Swedish as a foreign language as part of their studies in Scandinavistics. The students are familiar with the German culture and well aware of the legends and the myths about Sweden which are distributed via German media. At the same time they are shaping new images of Sweden in the didactic interaction with the teachers. The study indicates that the encounter with a foreign culture requires preparation to question even what seems to be self-evident. Hence, the study proposes an intertextual approach when using texts for studies in foreign languages. The result also demonstrates that even if it is important that we critically analyze the stories we hear and our interpretations of them, it is as important that we demand the right to get lost in dreams, because this is where we find a part of the secret of the esthetical experience. (Less)
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01 Jan 2008
TL;DR: The authors investigated lexical similarity perceptions by students of Swedish as a foreign language (L3) with a good yet non-native proficiency in English (L2) with the general theoretical frame.
Abstract: The present study investigates lexical similarity perceptions by students of Swedish as a foreign language (L3) with a good yet non-native proficiency in English (L2). The general theoretical frame ...
01 Jan 2011
TL;DR: In this paper, an ethnographic approach was proposed to study Swedish as a foreign language as part of their studies in Scandinavistics, and they found that the encounter with a foreign culture requires readiness to question even what seems to be selfevident.
Abstract: What can we learn from fiction? In this article, I discuss this question from an ethnographic point of view. With the two notions intertextuality and the foreign as a starting point, I show how an idyllic view of Sweden affects two students, Hanna and Asa, studying Swedish as a foreign language as part of their studies in Scandinavistics. The two students are familiar with the German cul-ture and well aware of the legends and the myths about Sweden which are distributed via German media. At the same time, they are shaping new images of Sweden in the didactic interaction with the teachers. The study indicates that the encounter with a foreign culture requires readiness to question even what seems to be selfevident. Hence, the study proposes an intertextual approach when using texts for studies in foreign languages. Only through a shift of perspectives are we able to see the world from a different angle.