Minority Language Learning for Adult Migrants in Europe
- 232 pages
- English
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Minority Language Learning for Adult Migrants in Europe
About this book
This collection examines the learning and teaching of minority languages for adult migrants in Europe, with studies featuring perspectives from adult migrants themselves as well as local authorities, teachers, education planners and representatives from working life.
The volume provides context on the attitudes and ideologies which inform adult migrant language education in different minority languages in Europe. Adult migrant language learners are understood here as newcomers settling and living in regions where the minority language is politically acknowledged and societally significant. The studies presented in the chapters are all original, and most are based on qualitative data such as interviews, ethnographic observations and policy documents. Some authors draw upon census and register data and surveys. The book is designed to be relatable to policy formation and implementation in other national contexts, in Europe and beyond.
This book will be of interest to postgraduate students and researchers in language education, language and migration, language and mobility, minority language studies, language policy and linguistic ethnography, as well as language policy professionals.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title Page
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Adult migrants learning minority languages in Europe: An introduction
- 2 The absence of Indigenous languages in Norwegian, Swedish and Finnish immigrant introduction programmes
- 3 Learning Swedish in contexts of migration to Finland
- 4 The situated nature of investment in language learning: The case of two new speakers of Faroese
- 5 Can Frisian cure?: The role of Frisian language policy and education in migrant healthcare professionals’ integration in Fryslân
- 6 Developing personal integration projects through a Welsh language provision for adult migrants in Wales
- 7 Adult migrant learners of Irish: An exploration of motivational factors
- 8 Adult migrants’ investment when learning a minoritised language: Challenges and opportunities in the Basque Country
- 9 Boundary-maintenance and unwillingness to learn Catalan: Ideologies of multilingualism among Hungarians in Catalonia
- 10 Afterword
- Index