New publication: "They have no language" – language ideologies in adult education for deaf migrants

Nora Duggan and Ingela Holmström present a new article about how deaf migrants view their own repertoire and how their teachers view their students' linguistic background. The article is written within the MULDER project, which investigates the multilingual situation of deaf refugees in Sweden.

Nora Duggan and Ingela Holmström. Private photos.

The paper by Nora Duggan and Ingela Holmström looks at how deaf migrants view their own linguistic repertoires and how the teachers working with these migrants view their linguistic backgrounds. Key findings are the complexity of labelling repertoires, issues of attempting to define communicative practices and how certain repertoires are perceived as having higher status than other repertoires.

The text is published in Journal of Applied Language Science and is available online.

"They have no language" Exploring language ideologies in adult education for deaf migrants (apples.journal.fi)

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Language, Literature and Culture

Research subject

Multilingualism in the Deaf and Hard of Hearing

Research project

The multilingual situation of deaf refugees in Sweden (MULDER)

The project aims to generate knowledge about deaf adult refugees’ language situation. The integration of this group is strongly linked to their varied linguistic background, which is further complicated by the fact that many of these refugees are language delayed due to having had no or limited access to any language during childhood.

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Last updated: September 29, 2022

Source: Department of Linguistics

Theme

Language, Literature and Culture

Research subject

Multilingualism in the Deaf and Hard of Hearing

Research project

The multilingual situation of deaf refugees in Sweden (MULDER)

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