Description
Book SynopsisThis book offers insights into questions related to mobility, literacy learning and literacy practices of adult and adolescent migrants. The authors address learning and use of literacies among adults and adolescents in both temporary and more permanent post-migration settlements and in various contexts, exploring spatial as well as temporal dimensions of literacies and power. The formal and informal educational settings examined include state-mandated schools, community settings, and libraries, and the chapters offer insights into the complex relations between literacies and mobility, as well as a range of perspectives on language use and language learning. This volume will be of interest to students and researchers in fields including education and literacy, applied linguistics, language education and migration studies.
Table of ContentsChapter 1. Multiple approaches to literacies in the age of mobility
Annika Norlund Shaswar & Jenny Rosén
Chapter 2. Indigenous Mobilities in Diaspora. Literacies of Spatial Tense
Patricia Baquedano-López & Nate Gong
Chapter 3. Lessons for today from successful women. Forced migrants’ language biographies
Chapter 4. Literacy, legitimacy, and investment in language learning. The experiences of a female Syrian refugee in the UK
Amina Al-Dhaif, Graham Hall & Rola Naeb
Chapter 5. The mobility of everyday literacies. Literacy practices for passing a driving test as a potential resource for L2 and literacy development
Annika Norlund Shaswar
Chapter 6. Pleasure reading for immigrant adults on a volunteer-run programme
Enas Filimban, Pedro Malard Monteiro, Egle Mocciaro, Martha Young-Scholten & Abigail Middlemas
Chapter 7. The Diary – Teachers’ work with biliterate literature in adult education Swedish for immigrants. Berit Lundgren & Jenny Rosén
Chapter 8. The role of psychological and socio-psychological factors in L2 literacy development of temporary migrants
Maria Pujol-Valls, Angélica Carlet & Katarzyna Ożańska-Ponikwia
Chapter 9. Writing as multilingual and multimodal practices. The case of the Language Introduction Program in Swedish Upper Secondary School
Åsa Wedin
Chapter 10. Negotiating minority language resources, practices and experiences in Norwegian writing instruction for migrant students
Joke Dewilde
Chapter 11. Reinventing literacies in the age of mobility: An epilogue
Carla Jonsson
