Förskollärarens förhållningssätt och hinder i arbetet med flerspråkiga barn : Förskollärarens syn på modersmål och andraspråk

Sammanfattning

The purpose of the current study is to shed light on how preschool teachers work to stimulate the mother tongue of multilingual children and develop second language learning. The theoretical starting point in the study is the intercultural perspective. To answer the purpose of the study, a survey was conducted of which 60 respondents are included in the data analysis. The results of the study show that the respondents who participated in the survey work with multilingual children's mother tongue and second language learning in several different ways and they have a positive view of mother tongue teaching and its impact on second language learning. According to the study's participants, it appears that there are various challenges in the work with children's multilingualism, such as a lack of knowledge in mother tongue teaching and second language learning. There were several different resources that are used in the work, but also what resources the preschool teachers lack in the work with mother tongue teaching and second languages. Finally, the results of the study show that there is a certain lack of knowledge about how the educator should promote the child's mother tongue and second language. According to the preschool teachers, there is a lack of competence development and a lack of time for working with the child's multilingualism.