The Norwegian Educational System, the Linguistic Diversity in the Country and the Education of Different Minority Groups
Abstract Linguistic diversity has always been and still is one of the current issues in the Norwegian educational system. Norwegian is the official language of the country, but, there have been several distinct dialects and two official written Norwegian languages in the country since 1885. One of t...
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ftciteseerx:oai:CiteSeerX.psu:10.1.1.1070.9688 2023-05-15T18:10:43+02:00 The Norwegian Educational System, the Linguistic Diversity in the Country and the Education of Different Minority Groups Kamil Özerk The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives 2013 application/pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.1070.9688 http://www.pegem.net/dosyalar/dokuman/138597-20140108164444-3.pdf en eng http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.1070.9688 http://www.pegem.net/dosyalar/dokuman/138597-20140108164444-3.pdf Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. http://www.pegem.net/dosyalar/dokuman/138597-20140108164444-3.pdf text 2013 ftciteseerx 2020-04-26T00:21:45Z Abstract Linguistic diversity has always been and still is one of the current issues in the Norwegian educational system. Norwegian is the official language of the country, but, there have been several distinct dialects and two official written Norwegian languages in the country since 1885. One of them is Bokmål and the other is Nynorsk. There has also been an indigenous Sami people with three different Sami languages in the country: Northern Sami, Lulesami and Southern Sami in the country. At the same time there are two national minority groups, Kvens and the Roma people, who have their own languages. In addition about 200 languages are represented among linguistic minority children with immigrant parents/grandparents. This linguistic diversity means that almost 15% of Norway's population of 5 million has another first language than Norwegian. This paper gives a brief account of policies and challenges related to multilingualism and multilingual education in the Norwegian educational system. Text sami Unknown |
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Abstract Linguistic diversity has always been and still is one of the current issues in the Norwegian educational system. Norwegian is the official language of the country, but, there have been several distinct dialects and two official written Norwegian languages in the country since 1885. One of them is Bokmål and the other is Nynorsk. There has also been an indigenous Sami people with three different Sami languages in the country: Northern Sami, Lulesami and Southern Sami in the country. At the same time there are two national minority groups, Kvens and the Roma people, who have their own languages. In addition about 200 languages are represented among linguistic minority children with immigrant parents/grandparents. This linguistic diversity means that almost 15% of Norway's population of 5 million has another first language than Norwegian. This paper gives a brief account of policies and challenges related to multilingualism and multilingual education in the Norwegian educational system. |
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