Estetiska vägar mot språket : En undersökande essä om estetiska lärprocessers påverkan på språkutveckling

Sammanfattning: My purpose with this essay is to examine the relationship between esthetic learning processes and language development to find good practices in my work with multilingual children. In my report, I describe a few activities from my work as a preschool pedagogue in a multicultural area, with a large group of children where age and knowledge of Swedish varies. The background to this essay is the problems I experienced in my work with children´s language development in an organization that, in my opinion, is limited by economic factors. The questions I poses are about the way esthetic learning processes can help children develop their language skills as well as their participation in preschool activities. I also pose the question whether there is a connection between the musical ear and children´s development of language. Finally, I wonder what abilities I need to have as a pedagogue in order for the esthetic learning processes to be language developing. Besides the essay method I have used fenomenological-hermeneutical method. I interpret events and meetings in work situations and process my practical knowledge by allowing it to meet the different theoretical perspectives. In the survey I let the research from the socio-cultural perspective take a central place because I found this closely tied up to my research questions. I have come to the conclusion that the joyful and creative properties of the esthetic learning processes opens our minds to learning and development. In a group with multilingual children the chance increases to participate in the preschool activities though esthetic learning processes because the children can participate in different ways in addition to the verbal language. In the social environment interaction and communication is critical for multilingual children developing Swedish as a second language. In this context we use the esthetic languages as cultural tools. I have also come to the concusion that music and language have common parameters, which means that they follow each other in children´s development. Early in life children develop their  musical ear and uses it both in linguistic and musical activities. Finally, I have concluded that a group of mixed ages can be an advantage for language development when children learn from each other. I aslo conclude that the pedagogues knowledge, experience, attitudes and qualities are important for the esthetic learning processes to support the language depelopment.