språkinriktad

Språkinriktad is a Swedish adjective used to describe approaches, strategies, or policies that foreground language development in education or linguistics. It combines språket (language) and inriktad (directed or oriented). In education, språkinriktad undervisning refers to teaching practices that make language development an explicit aim alongside subject content, enabling students to acquire and use language as a tool for learning across disciplines. This is particularly relevant for multilingual learners and students with limited proficiency in the instructional language.

Practically, språkinriktade methods include explicit vocabulary instruction, sentence frames, discourse routines, and metalinguistic awareness activities, as well as the design of instructional materials that support reading, writing, listening, and speaking within subject contexts. Assessment under språkinriktad pedagogy tends to track linguistic progress as part of overall achievement, and teachers may adapt tasks to support both language and content mastery.

In relation to research and policy, the term is used to describe a family of practices that aim to integrate language development with subject learning, sometimes overlapping with CLIL (content and language integrated learning) and language didactics (språkdidaktik). Critics caution that implementation requires professional development and adequate resources to avoid sacrificing disciplinary depth for language focus.

Overall, språkinriktad denotes a language-centered orientation in pedagogy and research, emphasizing systematic support for learners' language abilities as a foundation for academic success.