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Record Nr.

UNINA9911009178403321

Autore

Monsen Marte

Titolo

Language Learning and Forced Migration

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bristol : , : Multilingual Matters, , 2022

©2022

ISBN

9781800412279

1800412274

9781800412262

1800412266

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (221 pages)

Collana

Second Language Acquisition ; ; v.156

Altri autori (Persone)

SteienGuri Bordal

Disciplina

401.93

Soggetti

Norwegian language - Acquisition

Norwegian language - Study and teaching - Foreign speakers

Second language acquisition

Refugees - Norway - Language

Congolese (Democratic Republic) - Norway - Social conditions

Forced migration

Sociolinguistics - Norway

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Forced migration and language learning / Guri Bordal Steien & Marte Monsen -- Women, children, dogs, flowers and men : constructions of Norway and investment in Norwegian / Marte Monsen & Guri Bordal Steien -- "In Uganda, we collected them in the streets" : on the street as an absent language learning space / Guri Bordal Steien -- Technologies of government : intake interviews as institutional arenas for the regulation of newly arrived refugees in Norway / Veronica Pájaro -- "Because I was the only one who dared" : approaches to multilingual repertoires in adult language classes / Marte Monsen & Marianne Eek -- Resettling literacies : the case of Sarah and Simon / Marte Monsen -- Syllable structures in English speech produced by multilingual speakers with histories of mobility / Ida Syvertsen -- Word order in additional language English spoken by multilinguals / Sylvi



Rørvik -- "The sound of asking a question" : metalanguage and crosslinguistic awareness in adults learning Norwegian as an additional language / Gunhild Randen -- Syntactic complexity in early adult additional language Norwegian / Bård Uri Jensen -- A year goes by : a longitudinal study of verb-locative constructions in additional language Norwegian / Marte Nordanger -- Pragmatic development in four Congolese refugees' Norwegian : response to topic initial elicitors and topic proffers / Paulina Horbowicz -- Conclusion: Towards a research agenda on learning and forced migration / Guri Bordal Steien & Marte Monsen.

Sommario/riassunto

This study of language issues in the context of migration provides interdisciplinary insights into language as learned, used and lived by refugees in Norway. It offers an innovative contribution to the field of SLA by bringing together structural, cognitive, social and critical approaches to data collected among the same individuals.