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- Ahlgren, Katrin, 1970-
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Erövra ett nytt språk
- 2022
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Ahlgren, Katrin, 1970-
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Narrativa identiteter och levande metaforer i ett andraspråksperspektiv
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This thesis consists of two separate yet connected studies which investigate how some adult second language speakers of Swedish with various backgrounds reflect on their experiences of language use. The studies are based on the same empirical data, which consists of questionnaires, diaries, essays and observations, but primarily of conversations conducted with a time interval of six years. This data is analysed from a theoretical framework based on Paul Ricœur’s ideas of interpretation, narrative analysis and identity creation, which recur as a leitmotif throughout the thesis.In the first study, data from three second language speakers are analysed by means of the concept of narrative identity, shedding light on the interplay between a static and a dynamic identity. The result is presented in the form of life narratives, which are commented on in relation to those strategies the participants express in relation to their second language use. The analysis shows a development over time moving from defiance to acceptance, from avoidance to flexibility and from planning to simplification. Adult language learning stands out as an arduous and time-consuming process with major consequences for the learner’s ego, a conclusion confirmed and clarified in the metaphor analysis of the second study in which language learning is related to hard work, a constant struggle and a long and strenuous journey. Here it also becomes evident that the participants equate language learning and language use to physical exertion and challenge as well as to individual achievement. This becomes particularly clear in the linked chains of metaphors in which language use is compared with skiing down the steepest slopes or appearing on stage.The participants in both studies are quoted by means of an ethnopoetic method which aims to bring out the creative aspects of their language use and to give second language speakers a voice – a voice which does not need to be corrected and gives the narratives a new dimension.
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- Ahlgren, Katrin, 1970-, et al.
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Talat språk och bedömning
- 2022
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- Reath Warren, Anne, et al.
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Reasons and resistance : Parents' reflections on community language education in Swedish and Vietnamese in Australia
- 2023
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Ingår i: Community and Heritage Languages Schools Transforming Education Research. - : Routledge. - 9781003302704 ; , s. 168-188
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This chapter presents a narrative analysis of interviews with seven parents whose children attend community language schools teaching Swedish and Vietnamese. There are few studies exploring parent perceptions of the community language school, the languages taught there and the reasons parents describe for enrolling their children. This study fills this gap. The analysis shows that parents place importance on passing on language, culture and an understanding of diasporic identity to their children. Both dynamic and more static understandings of language and language development underlie parents’ utterances; they do not express an expectation that their children will develop or use the languages they study in the same way as themselves. However, all parents stress that they do not want their language or culture to be lost in their new diasporic context. The schools are also described as places where parents with similar languages and backgrounds can meet. Community language schools in this study can thus be understood as vehicles for transferring the Swedish and Vietnamese language and cultural identity to the next generation as well as a meeting place for adults sharing similar backgrounds.
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