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Title Language learning and forced migration / edited by Marte Monsen and Guri Bordal Steien
Published Bristol ; Jackson : Multilingual Matters, [2022]

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 222 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Series Second language acquisition ; 156
Second language acquisition (Clevedon, England) ; 156.
Contents Introduction: Language learning and forced migration / 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
Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 06, 2022)
Subject Norwegian language -- Acquisition -- Case studies
Norwegian language -- Study and teaching -- Foreign speakers -- Case studies
Second language acquisition -- Case studies
Refugees -- Norway -- Language -- Case studies
Congolese (Democratic Republic) -- Norway -- Social conditions -- Case studies
Forced migration -- Case studies
Sociolinguistics -- Norway -- Case studies
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Psycholinguistics.
Forced migration
Norwegian language -- Acquisition
Norwegian language -- Study and teaching -- Foreign speakers
Second language acquisition
Sociolinguistics
Norway
Genre/Form Case studies
Form Electronic book
Author Monsen, Marte, 1974- editor.
Steien, Guri Bordal, editor.
LC no. 2022018582
ISBN 9781800412279
1800412274
9781800412262
1800412266