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News | 02 March 2023

Malin Riise: Bilingual schools do not threaten the Swedish language

We are serious about bilingualism: teaching in English must not take place at the expense of Swedish.

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Malin Riise, Teacher at IES Borås

That IES does not prioritize Swedish is evident from our students' results, for example on the national evidence, where IES students generally perform better than average. This despite the fact that IES has a higher proportion of students with a foreign background.

Malin Riise, subject facilitator for Swedish at IES, answers Språkförsvaret about bilingual schools in Norrtelje Tidning.

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