Browsing by Subject "attityd till språken"

Bilingualism is a variety that many of us are born into, but it doesn’t mean that if there’s no bilingualism in the family, that the child couldn’t be bilingual. There is for example bilingual kindergarten, where teachers are speaking two languages; one speaks for example Swedish and the other one Finnish, that’s a good way to here and learn the other language. The purpose of this study is to research if there’s any connection between the children’s attitudes toward the second national language and children’s language proficiency. The study is implemented at a kindergarten where I had been working and where I knew the children. The thesis is a qualitative case study, which I made by interview the children, both in groups and individual. I split the children in three groups according to languages; the Swedish speaking, the Finnish speaking and the bilingual group. The conclusion in the thesis is that there’s a positive connection between attitudes toward languages and language proficiency.