Browsing by Subject "samlokaliserade skolor"

Everyone in the Swedish speaking minority in Finland does not come easily in contact with the Finnish language. At the same time, there is an increase of Swedish-speaking Finns moving to Sweden. One of the reasons for emigration to Sweden is language. It is important that all Swedish-speaking Finns have the chance to learn and master the Finnish language to have the same opportunities in the Finnish society as the native Finnish speakers. The purpose of this study is to observe the attitudes towards the Finnish language among pupils in Swedish speaking schools. To get a wide perspective a comparative study was conducted between so to say pair schools (where a Finnish and a Swedish speaking school are sharing the school property) and a regular Swedish speaking school. In this quantitative study, the data was collected by a paper questionnaire that pupils in grades 4-6 filled in. Two pair schools and one regular school participated in this study. The sample consisted of N=81 pupils and the data where analysed in the statistical program SPSS. The results showed that the pupils in general had a relatively neutral or a slightly more positive attitude against the Finnish language. The pupils in the regular school had slightly a better attitude towards the Finnish language than the pupils in the pair schools. Students that spoke Finnish regularly had a better attitude towards the Finnish language. The pupils in the pair schools where not that interested in interaction with the pupils from the Finnish speaking schools.