Translanguaging practices in adult education for deaf migrants
ABSTRACT In the last decade, Sweden has received many deaf migrants with very diverse linguistic and educational backgrounds. When arriving in Sweden, they are expected to learn Swedish Sign Language (STS) and Swedish. For this study, we have used data from project Mulder, a four-year research proje...
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| description | ABSTRACT In the last decade, Sweden has received many deaf migrants with very diverse linguistic and educational backgrounds. When arriving in Sweden, they are expected to learn Swedish Sign Language (STS) and Swedish. For this study, we have used data from project Mulder, a four-year research project that aims to generate knowledge about deaf migrants’ multilingual situation in Sweden. The focus is on two folk high schools with programmes designated for deaf migrants. In this article, we describe how adult education for deaf migrants is organised in Sweden and examine how translanguaging practices are formed there. We found that translanguaging is a natural and common part of the multilingual classrooms, but also that the opportunities to translanguage depend highly on the individual’s repertoires and whether particular individuals have one or more languages in common or have a lingua franca. We also found that translanguaging is not always helpful in learning contexts if the teachers are not conscious and insightful when they mix languages. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-db3fbbaf84794d71af55458e6a28af062023-01-31T07:31:38ZengPontifícia Universidade Católica de São PauloDELTA: Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada1678-460X2023-01-0139110.1590/1678-460x202359764Translanguaging practices in adult education for deaf migrantsNora Dugganhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-5695-2145Ingela Holmströmhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-8762-7118Krister Schönströmhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-8579-0771ABSTRACT In the last decade, Sweden has received many deaf migrants with very diverse linguistic and educational backgrounds. When arriving in Sweden, they are expected to learn Swedish Sign Language (STS) and Swedish. For this study, we have used data from project Mulder, a four-year research project that aims to generate knowledge about deaf migrants’ multilingual situation in Sweden. The focus is on two folk high schools with programmes designated for deaf migrants. In this article, we describe how adult education for deaf migrants is organised in Sweden and examine how translanguaging practices are formed there. We found that translanguaging is a natural and common part of the multilingual classrooms, but also that the opportunities to translanguage depend highly on the individual’s repertoires and whether particular individuals have one or more languages in common or have a lingua franca. We also found that translanguaging is not always helpful in learning contexts if the teachers are not conscious and insightful when they mix languages.http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-44502023000100401&tlng=enintramodal translanguagingvisually-orientedfolk high schooldeaf education |
| spellingShingle | Nora Duggan Ingela Holmström Krister Schönström Translanguaging practices in adult education for deaf migrants DELTA: Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada intramodal translanguaging visually-oriented folk high school deaf education |
| title | Translanguaging practices in adult education for deaf migrants |
| title_full | Translanguaging practices in adult education for deaf migrants |
| title_fullStr | Translanguaging practices in adult education for deaf migrants |
| title_full_unstemmed | Translanguaging practices in adult education for deaf migrants |
| title_short | Translanguaging practices in adult education for deaf migrants |
| title_sort | translanguaging practices in adult education for deaf migrants |
| topic | intramodal translanguaging visually-oriented folk high school deaf education |
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