Language Learning and Forced Migration

This pioneering piece of research on the situated study of language issues in the context of forced migration provides interdisciplinary insights into language as learned, used and lived by 12 Congolese 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, these individuals being underrepresented within the field of SLA research as both refugees and learners whose experiences with language stem from the Global South. Their histories of mobility and their learning contexts are rarely reflected in theories and concepts from the Global North and this book thus makes a much-needed contribution to the field.

Auteur

Marte Monsen is Professor of Nordic Linguistics at Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway. Her research interests include multilingualism, SLA, literacy, language testing, academic writing and ethnography.

Guri Bordal Steien is Professor of Linguistics at Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway. Her research interests include multilingualism, SLA, prosody and ethnography.

Contenu

Foreword: Ana Deumert

Introduction. Guri Bordal Steien & Marte Monsen: Forced Migration and Language Learning

Section I. Emic Perspectives and Learning Contexts

Chapter 1. Marte Monsen & Guri Bordal Steien: Women, Children, Dogs, Flowers and Men: Constructions of Norway and Investment in Norwegian

Chapter 2: Guri Bordal Steien: "In Uganda, we Collected them in the Streets": On the Street as (an Absent) Language Learning Space

Chapter 3. Veronica Pájaro: Technologies of Government: Intake Interviews as Institutional Arenas for the Regulation of Newly Arrived Refugees in Norway

Chapter 4. Marte Monsen & Marianne Eek: "Because I was the only one who Dared": Approaches to Multilingual Repertoires in Adult Language Classes

Chapter 5. Marte Monsen: Resettling Literacies: The Case of Sarah and Simon

Section II. Language Practices, Knowledge and Learning

Chapter 6. Ida Syvertsen: Syllable Structures in English Speech Produced by Multilingual Speakers with Histories of Mobility

Chapter 7. Sylvi Rørvik: Word Order in Additional Language English Spoken by Multilinguals

Chapter 8. Gunhild Randen: "The Sound of asking a Question": Metalanguage and Crosslinguistic Awareness in Adults Learning Norwegian as an Additional Language

Chapter 9. Bård Uri Jensen: Syntactic Complexity in Early Adult Additional Language Norwegian

Chapter 10. Marte Nordanger: A Year Goes By: A Longitudinal Study of Verb-Locative Constructions in Additional Language Norwegian

Chapter 11. Paulina Horbowicz: Pragmatic Development in Four Congolese Refugees' Norwegian: Response to Topic Initial Elicitors and Topic Proffers

Conclusion. Guri Bordal Steien & Marte Monsen