The aim of this study is to explore the makeup of teacher education programs for the language and literature school subjects Swedish (SWE) and Swedish as a Second Language (SSL) in upper secondary teacher education. We accomplish this through content analysis of syllabi from five universities. The results show a reduced amount of literary content and limited aims for the reading of fiction in SSL as compared to SWE. Other differences are that SSL has a stronger focus on Content and Language Integrated Teaching, migration, language ideology, attitudes and circumstances related to the pupil. Further, in SWE there is an almost complete lack of content relating to multilingualism. We discuss whether the SSL teacher education programs create different conceptions of SSL than the SSL courses prevalent in upper secondary school, at the expense of a subject oriented towards literature, and to what extent SSL is constructed as a subject primarily supporting other school subjects. In relation to Gess-Newsome’s (2015) model on teachers’ knowledge base, we also discuss to what extent the teacher education programs prepare for teaching in upper secondary school: for SWE in relation to the pupils students will meet, and for SSL in relation to the content and organization of the upper secondary school subject.

Drawing on a larger project on teaching Swedish as a second language to migrant upper secondary school students in Sweden, this paper focuses on one teacher’s literature class and a book-group discussion about a graphic novel based on Selma Lagerlöf’s A Tale of a Manor. The aim was to contribute to further knowledge on the dialogic potential of teacher-led literary discussions on graphic novels with language learners, by focusing on the cumulative aspect of the interaction. We also analyzed the teacher’s role and how it affected the students’ responses and interpretations. Our findings show how the cumulative dialogue created new student insights relating to the novel’s protagonists, literary themes and the saga genre, which is central in Lagerlöf’s novels, and how literary concepts and visual cues were used as resources for interpretation. The discussion of the graphic novel included multifaceted and multimodal analyses, in which the teacher urged the students to formulate interpretations and responses anchored in both the written text and the images. This teacher-led dialogue holds great potential for encouraging students’ literary reading, as well as their confidence when it comes to giving responses to literature, which is of relevance to similar languageand literature teaching contexts.

This paper explores the role of collaborative teacher agency in facilitating translingual adjustments in a linguistically diverse primary school in Sweden. We focus on three multicompetent language teachers, who taught minoritized languages in the marginalized Mother Tongue (MT) subject, Modern Languages, and offered Multilingual Study Mentoring. Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork, including teacher interviews and fieldnotes from everyday MT practices and preparations for an annual musical performance, we investigated how the teachers adjusted to the students’ multilingual repertoires through relational agency and distributed expertise (Edwards, A. 2011. Building common knowledge at the boundaries between professional practices: Relational agency and relational expertise in systems of distributed expertise. International Journal of Educational Research 50(1). 33–39). These adjustments affected the offered language provisions beyond what was required, based on students’ linguistic competencies and parental involvement. Didactic adjustments also afforded migrant students literary experiences that starkly contrasted with the limited literacy content in beginner courses in Swedish. These “responsive professional actions” (Edwards, A. 2011. Building common knowledge at the boundaries between professional practices: Relational agency and relational expertise in systems of distributed expertise. International Journal of Educational Research 50(1). 33–39, p. 39) thus impacted on the students’ opportunities for multilingual development, expanded language registers, including verbal art, and linguistic inclusion. Through these actions, language was reformulated as asset, and we find that an ethics of care (Watkins, M. 2011. Teachers’ tears and the affective geography of the classroom. Emotion, Space and Society 4(3). 137–143) was closely intertwined with this relational agency. The findings contribute new knowledge on the role of collaborative teacher agency in diverse settings also of relevance to other national contexts.

En allt större mångfald, både kulturellt och språkligt, olika skrivkulturer och olika socialapraktiker i ett allt mer skrivande samhälle kräver förändringar även i skolans skrivpraktik.Syftet med artikeln är att undersöka begreppet stöttning i skrivande och öka kunskapen omstöttning utifrån hur begreppet idag förstås bland skrivdidaktiska forskare och exemplifieraanvändningen av stöttning i skolpraktik. Vi presenterar först en översikt av centrala bidragtill förståelsen och utvecklingen av teoribildningen kring begreppet stöttning i skrivdidaktiskforskning. Sedan analyserar vi deskriptivt hur stöttning realiseras i två olika klassrumssituationer, den ena i årskurs fyra i en svensk skola i Sverige och den andra i årskurs sju i ensvensk skola i Finland. Analysen uppmärksammar olika perspektiv på stöttning i skrivandesåsom grader av planerad (stöttning på makronivå) och spontan stöttning (stöttning påmikronivå), stöd och stöttning (materiell stöttning med artefakter och interaktionell stöttningi form av mellanmänsklig interaktion) samt cirkulationen av olika lager av texter som in- ochut-texter. Resultaten av analysen visar att begreppet stöttning fortsättningsvis är starktförankrat i ett sociokulturellt perspektiv parallellt med att begreppet som sådant allt meraktualiseras i ett skrivande samhälle och således blir allt mer komplext. Begreppets komplexitet riskerar att fjärma teoribildningen från skrivpraktiken och kräver en explicit kunskapom skrivstöttning av lärarna. De två exemplifieringarna av hur stöttning kan se ut i två olikaklassrumssituationer visar dessutom att praktiken innehåller många olika element som bördokumenteras för att teorierna kring stöttning ska kunna vidareutvecklas.

Based on fieldwork and interviews, we explore five teachers’ views abouttheir teaching of Swedish as a second language in an early immersion schoolin Finland (Larch) and a linguistically heterogeneous primary school inSweden (Chestnut). Drawing from ecological perspectives, we aim tocontribute new knowledge on how second language teachers express theirgoals, teacher experiences and expertise depending on language andeducation policy as discursive-material reality. We discuss how societal,discursive and material differences were entangled with the teachers’discourses, for example, the fact that Swedish immersion at Larch enjoyed ahigher social status than Swedish as a second language at Chestnut.Concomitantly, the teachers adhered to pedagogical principles and thevalue of students’ linguistic and cultural repertoires in similar ways. Wespecifically discuss teacher autonomy as entwined with prevailingdiscursive-material realities, including distinct language education policies.

Baserat på fältarbete och intervjuer undersöker vi fem lärares syn på sin undervisning i svenskasom andraspråk i ett språkbadsprogram i en grundskola i Finland (Larch) och en språkligtheterogen grundskola i Sverige (Chestnut). Utifrån ekologiska perspektiv vill vi bidra med nykunskap om hur andraspråkslärare uttrycker sina mål, lärarerfarenheter och expertis utifrånrådande språk- och utbildningspolicy, vilka vi analyserar som diskursiv och materiell realitet. Vidiskuterar hur samhälleliga, diskursiva och materiella olikheter var invävda i lärarnas diskurser,såsom det faktum att svenskt språkbad vid Larch hade högre social status än svenska somandraspråk vid Chestnut. Samtidigt värderade lärarna såväl pedagogiska principer somelevernas språkliga och kulturella repertoarer på liknande sätt. Vi diskuterar specifiktlärarautonomi som sammanflätad med rådande diskurser och materiella realiteter, inklusiveolika språkutbildningspolicyer.

This study explores teacher perspectives and beliefs on writing instruction in the Swedish Language Introduction Program (LI) through interviews with six teachers in Swedish as a second language. The study was guided by the following research questions: How do the teachers construct the students discursively, including the students’ educational background and prior knowledge? How do the teachers frame writing instruction, as evident by their discourses? LI is an upper secondary school program framed for newly arrived students, 15 to 18 years old, who need to qualify for mainstream programs by attaining the goals of compulsory school year 9. The study is framed within theory on second language writing instruction and teachers’ beliefs. The teachers’ discourses of writing instruction were analyzed against theory on second language writing instruction, genre pedagogy, and practices of care, and related to the teachers’ discursive constructions of the group of students as vulnerable and heterogeneous. All teachers exploited genre pedagogy, with its emancipatory aims, to enable access to the genres of schooling. The teachers’ expressed aims were directed toward long-term goals, such as employability and democratic participation. The teachers were firmly based in both theory and experience, which the demanding context seemed to require. In spite of indisputable challenges, the teachers conveyed a sense of belief in the possibilities of teaching.

This paper targets the aim of 'strengthening the students' multilingualism' in a second language subject in Sweden, Swedish as a second language (SSL), which represents a relatively rare L2 design internationally. The study investigates how ideological space for multilingualism with regard to this aim opens implementational space at the classroom level [Hornberger. 2002. "Multilingual Language Policies and the Continua of Biliteracy: An Ecological Approach." Language Policy 1 (1): 27-51]. We draw on ethnographic fieldwork in three linguistically diverse upper secondary schools in Sweden, where SSL is a parallel subject to Swedish, free of choice, and is taught by qualified teachers. Ideological and implementational space was found to be primarily for empowering students and valorizing their multilingualism and less for learning functions and pedagogical multilingual practices. Some students emphasized multilingual aspects as being empowering and as a reason for choosing SSL, indexing the performative function [Fairclough. 2014. "Semiotic Aspects of Social Transformation and Learning." In The Discourse Studies Reader. Main Currents in Theory and Analysis, edited by Johannes Angermuller, Dominique Maingueneau, and Ruth Wodak, 378-387. Amsterdam: John Benjamins] of macro-level policy in combination with teacher agency. We argue that in spite of the brevity of the formulated multilingual macro policy and its restricted 'potential space' [Johnson 2011. "Implementational and Ideological Spaces in Bilingual Education Language Policy, Practice, and Research." In Bilingual Education and Bilingualism: Educational Linguistics in Practice: Applying the Local Globally and the Global Locally, edited by Frances M. Hult and Kendall A. King, 126-139. Bristol, GBR: Multilingual Matters], it still had a significant bearing at the local level. This finding reinforces the importance of researching established macro-multilingual policies in situ in education.

I denna översikt belyser vi skolämnet svenska som andraspråk (sva) med utgångspunkt i några internationella utblickar. Inledningsvis tar vi avstamp i den svenska kontexten, med en historisk tillbakablick och genom att redogöra för och diskutera vad som utmärker den unika ämneskonstruktionen med två parallella svenskämnen och vilka argument för designen som åberopats i forskning. Sva diskuteras också i relation till uppfattningar om likvärdighet, baserat i en artikel av Hedman och Magnusson (2018). I denna inledning behandlas även OECD-rapporten Strength through diversity’s spotlight report for Sweden (Cerna et al., 2019) avseende det som där framkommer om skolämnet svenska som andraspråk. Därefter redogör vi för och diskuterar främst tre nationella kontexter, Norge, England och USA beträffande undervisning i norska som andraspråk (noa) respektive English as an Additional Language (EAL).