The article, Möjligheter och utmaningar – lärares uppfattningar omflerspråkighet och transspråkande [Possibilities and challenges – teachers’perceptions of multilingualism and translanguaging] is based on interviews and focuses on the implementation of translanguagingin a primary and intermediate school. The article proceeds from a longitudinal study with phenomenographic analyses (Marton & Svensson 1978) and points out the teachers’ perceptions that they found it advantageous to use translanguaging strategies in their multilingual classrooms, but also encountered difficulties in implementing an until then unknown educational paradigm in a monolingual environment. The study reveals that the implementation through time resulted in overall changes of attitudes towards the use of multilingual resources in education. During the implementation time the search for support and increase of knowledge created progressive collaborative teacher work inside the school and later on a further distribution of the translanguaging paradigm to other schools.
Marton, Ference & Svensson, Lennart (1978), “Att studera omvärldsuppfattning:Två bidrag till metodologin” [Studying perceptions of the outer world:Two contributions to the methodology] . Rapport från Pedagogiskainstitutionen, Göteborgs Universitet, no. 158, 1978.