Cooperation between library and preschool A study about if cooperation can support childrens and especially immigrant childrens language development

This Masters thesis concerns how library and preschool can cooperate in supporting childrens language development and especially that of bilingual children. We have investigated how librarians and preschool teachers different competences can complement each other to gain the best result in work with childrens language development. This study is based on qualitative interviews with four librarians and three preschool teachers. The answers from them have been analysed according to different categories. Our results show that both librarians and preschool teachers think that bilingual children need extra support and that it takes longer to learn two languages. The librarians can support them by providing literature in different languages. The preschool teachers have a responsibility to use the literature in different ways that lead to language development. Children need communication in their first language as well as in their second language to develop an understanding of the Swedish language. To maintain this cooperation, the librarians and the preschool teachers need to have a good dialogue.Uppsatsnivå: