Language Learning and Forced Migration
This pioneering piece of research on the situated study of language issues in the context of forced migration provides interdisciplinary insights into language as learned, used and lived by 12 Congolese 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, these individuals being underrepresented within the field of SLA research as both refugees and learners whose experiences with language stem from the Global South. Their histories of mobility and their learning contexts are rarely reflected in theories and concepts from the Global North and this book thus makes a much-needed contribution to the field.
Marte Monsen is Professor of Nordic Linguistics at Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway. Her research interests include multilingualism, SLA, literacy, language testing, academic writing and ethnography.
Guri Bordal Steien is Professor of Linguistics at Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway. Her research interests include multilingualism, SLA, prosody and ethnography.