Language learning of adult migrants in Europe : theoretical, empirical, and pedagogical issues / Glenn S. Levine, David Mallows, editors.

This volume focuses on the learning of host-country languages by migrants in Europe. It identifies, clarifies, and offers insights into issues and central questions related to the learning of host-country languages with an emphasis on adolescent and adult language learners in formal and informal set...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Other Authors: Levine-West, Glenn, 1964- (Editor), Mallows, David (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2022.
Series:Educational linguistics ; v. 53.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Language Socialisation
  • Migrant Mothers Stories of Learning Language in Everyday Life; Minna Intke Hernandez
  • How Can We Better Support Refugee Families in Scotland through an Ecological, Multilingual Approach to Language Learning? Sara Cox
  • On having a language that is no language, really: Language ideological attributions in a Dutch as L2 classroom for asylum seekers; Massimiliano Spotti
  • Teaching the Hegemonic Language: Between "Enabling Violence" and "Paternalistic Benevolence" ; Alisha M.B. Heinemann
  • Part II: System
  • Language Learning of Migrants: Empirical Evidence from the German Integration Course System; Anke Grotluschen, Jana Wienberg, and Gregor Dutz
  • Germanys Integration Courses: Sociolinguistic Composition and Language Learning Outcomes; Ibrahim Cindark, David Huenlich & Michaela Perlmann
  • On How Refugees Acquire German: The Case of the Integration Course in Germany; Nina Rother, Anna Wieczorek, Giuseppe Pietrantuono, Johannes Croisier, Andreea Baier, and Lars Ninke
  • Part III: Language and the Curriculum
  • New Migrants, New Challenges? Activating Multilingual Resources for Understanding Mathematics: Institutional and Interactional Requirements; Arne Krause, Jonas Wagner, Meryem Celikkol, Angelika Redder, and Susanne Prediger
  • After the Big Wave: Language Learning of Refugee University Students in Germany; Sandra McGury
  • Part IV: Practice
  • Digital Literacy Practices in the Adult L2 Classroom: The Case of Basic Literacy Education in Swedish; Annika Norlund Shaswar
  • Wie soll ich das Kind bewerten? German Teachers between Standardization and Differentiation in the Assessment of Refugee Students: A Qualitative Study; Silvia Melo-Pfeifer and Mara Tholkes
  • Part V: Identity
  • Religion, Identity and Investment in Adult Migrants English Language Learning in the UK; Amina Al-Dhaif, Graham Hall, and Rola Naeb
  • Lessons for Today from Successful Women: Adult-Refugee Background Women from the former Yugoslavia Narrate Their Language Learning Stories; Vesna Busic, Kirk P.H. Sullivan and Christian Waldmann
  • Nothing Enters in The Brain: When Asylum Seekers Talk about Language Learning in Mental Health Consultations; Vanessa Piccoli.