The Norwegian Educational System, the Linguistic Diversity in the Country and the Education of Different Minority Groups
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 Bo...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:2c7247025265441881c5415e51f0acf3 2023-05-15T18:10:32+02:00 The Norwegian Educational System, the Linguistic Diversity in the Country and the Education of Different Minority Groups Kamil ÖZERK 2013-10-01T00:00:00Z https://doaj.org/article/2c7247025265441881c5415e51f0acf3 EN eng Kura Publishing http://www.iejee.com/6_1_2013/IEJEE_6_1_ozerk.pdf https://doaj.org/toc/1307-9298 1307-9298 https://doaj.org/article/2c7247025265441881c5415e51f0acf3 International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, Vol 6, Iss 1, Pp 43-60 (2013) Linguistic diversity Bilingualism Indigenous Sami people Language policy Multilingual education Linguistic minority education Theory and practice of education LB5-3640 article 2013 ftdoajarticles 2023-02-19T01:39:46Z 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. Article in Journal/Newspaper sami Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles |
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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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The Norwegian Educational System, the Linguistic Diversity in the Country and the Education of Different Minority Groups |
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The Norwegian Educational System, the Linguistic Diversity in the Country and the Education of Different Minority Groups |
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The Norwegian Educational System, the Linguistic Diversity in the Country and the Education of Different Minority Groups |
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The Norwegian Educational System, the Linguistic Diversity in the Country and the Education of Different Minority Groups |
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The Norwegian Educational System, the Linguistic Diversity in the Country and the Education of Different Minority Groups |
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norwegian educational system, the linguistic diversity in the country and the education of different minority groups |
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