caa a22 4500 463241169 CHVBK 20180405153313.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170326e20071101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10993-007-9055-6 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10993-007-9055-6 Cabau-Lampa Beatrice Department of Government and International Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University, David Lam Building, 34 Renfrew Road, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong aut Mother Tongue Plus Two European Languages in Sweden: Unrealistic Educational Goal? [Elektronische Daten] [Beatrice Cabau-Lampa] For several years now, there has been much debate concerning the status and importance of the various languages in use in Sweden, both in society and in the field of education. In 2000 a 's'snew'' linguistic situation developed when in addition to English, which holds an overwhelming position and has been taught compulsorily since 1962, five minority languages were also recognised. In December 2005 the Swedish parliament introduced a new language policy asserting Swedish as the main - but not de jure language of the country. However in the educational arena, the situation of second foreign language teaching is often described as 's'scatastrophic''. The main purpose of this article is to broaden the scope of research about language policy in Sweden to include issues related to foreign language education. While this study includes the needs factor at national and individual levels, it also illustrates the assertion that 's'slanguage policy is about choice'' (Spolsky, 2004: 217) Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2007 English nationallicence foreign language educational policy nationallicence language education nationallicence language policy nationallicence second foreign languages nationallicence Swedish nationallicence Language Policy Springer Netherlands 6/3-4(2007-11-01), 333-358 1568-4555 6:3-4<333 2007 6 10993 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10993-007-9055-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10993-007-9055-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Cabau-Lampa Beatrice Department of Government and International Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University, David Lam Building, 34 Renfrew Road, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Language Policy Springer Netherlands 6/3-4(2007-11-01), 333-358 1568-4555 6:3-4<333 2007 6 10993 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer