Language Learning and Forced Migration / / ed. by Marte Monsen, Guri Bordal Steien.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus PP Package 2022 Part 2
• MitwirkendeR: Bordal Steien, Guri,; Deumert, Ana,; Eek, Marianne,; Horbowicz, Paulina,; Jensen, Bård Uri,; Monsen, Marte,; Nordanger, Marte,; Pájaro, Verónica,; Randen, Gunhild Tveit,; Rørvik, Sylvi,; Syvertsen, Ida,
• HerausgeberIn: Monsen, Marte,; Steien, Guri Bordal,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Second Language Acquisition ; 156
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (240 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- 1 Introduction: Language Learning and Forced Migration -- Part 1 Emic Perspectives and Learning Contexts -- 2 Women, Children, Dogs, Flowers and Men: Constructions of Norway and Investment in Norwegian Language Learning -- 3 ‘In Uganda, We Collected Them in the Streets’: On (the Absence of) the Street as a Language Learning Space -- 4 Scripts and Texts as Technologies of Refugee Governmentality in the Norwegian Introduction Programme -- 5 ‘Because I Was the Only One Who Dared’: Approaches to Multilingual Repertoires in Adult Language Training -- 6 Resettling Literacies: The Case of Sarah and Simon -- Part 2 Language Practices, Knowledge and Learning -- 7 Syllable Structures in English Speech Produced by Multilingual Speakers with Histories of Mobility -- 8 Word Order in Additional Language English Spoken by Multilinguals -- 9 ‘The Sound of Asking a Question’: Metalanguage and Crosslinguistic Awareness in Adults Learning Norwegian as an Additional Language -- 10 Syntactic Complexity in Early Adult Additional Language Norwegian -- 11 A Year Goes By: A Longitudinal Study of Verb–Locative Constructions in Additional Language Norwegian -- 12 Pragmatic Development in Four Congolese Refugees’ Norwegian: Response to Topic Initial Elicitors and Topic Proffers -- 13 Conclusion: Towards a Research Agenda on Language Learning and Forced Migration -- Index