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Title Language learning of adult migrants in Europe : theoretical, empirical, and pedagogical issues / Glenn S. Levine, David Mallows, editors
Published Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2022

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Description 1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations (black and white)
Series Educational linguistics ; volume 53
Educational linguistics ; v. 53
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
Summary 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 settings. The book draws on data collected following the refugee crisis in Europe of 2015-16, which led to dramatic increases in the number of migrants arriving in Europe
Notes Includes indexes
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Subject Immigrants -- Europe -- Language
Second language acquisition.
Sociolinguistics -- Europe
Immigrants -- Language
Second language acquisition
Sociolinguistics
Europe
Form Electronic book
Author Levine, Glenn S. (Glenn Scott), 1964- editor
Mallows, David, editor
ISBN 9783030792374
3030792374