Has language as resource been the basis for mother-tongue instruction in Sweden? On the evolution of policy orientations towards a uniquely enduring bilingual policy

Table 3 Theme distribution among 254 occurrences of 45 motivational units 1974 − 2022*

	Theme	Types of MUs	Mean year of MUs’ introduction	Total number of occurrences	Percentage among all occurrences	LPP orientation
1	Bilingualism	3	1974	38	15	intrinsic resource
2	Equal rights & opportunities	3	1976	12	5	right
3	Psychosocial development & wellbeing	9	1979	61	24	problem & intrinsic resource
4	Intercultural competence	4	1981	18	7	problem, right & intrinsic resource
5	Capacity for learning	4	1983	29	11	problem & intrinsic resource
6	Ethnocultural heritage	10	1989	48	19	intrinsic resource
7	Multicultural integration	4	1989	7	3	problem & extrinsic resource
8	Cultural contribution to society	8	1994	41	16	extrinsic resource

Legend: MU = motivational unit
* When the final corpus with 26 documents is compared with the initial larger corpus with 34 documents, 75% of the MUs differ less than 5% points in their occurrence. Furthermore, the periods for the different MUs’ occurrence span turned out to be identical in both corpora. Hence, the differences between these corpuses are only minor