Understanding Refugee-Background Students

Language, Literacies and Lived Experiences
Erscheinungsjahr 2027
ISBN: 978-1-83668-065-9
Verlag: Channel View Publications - IPSUK

Buch, Englisch, 200 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 246 g

Reihe: Multilingual Matters

Including voices that are often silenced or not heard, this book argues that all linguistic funds of knowledge should be recognised and valued in the host countries

This edited book presents stories and research focusing on literacies and language learning practices – across multiple modalities – in refugee communities from different countries, including Afghanistan, China, Iran and Myanmar, among others.

The chapters draw upon sociocultural perspectives on literacies, which emphasize the wide range and multiple literacies that bilinguals or multilinguals use in their real-life contexts. The authors engage with a wide range of commonly occurring questions in research and teaching with refugee communities, from how researchers can ethically engage refugees in research projects to how refugee background students can be supported in sharing their stories, and from how home languages can be maintained in the classroom to how refugee background students engage in language learning within their own families and communities.

Together the chapters underscore the importance of recognising refugee-background students and families as multilingual learners whose skills enrich educational spaces.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chamcharatsri, Bee

Cun, Aijuan

Duran, Chatwara Suwannamai

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Alphabetisierung
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Mehrsprachigkeit
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction. Bee Chamcharatsri, Aijuan Cun & Chatwara Suwannamai Duran

Section I: Refugee Background Students’ Voices and Multiliteracies

Chapter 1. Iuliia Fakhrutdinova: “I Can Tell You One Story:” Personal Narratives of Refugee Background Students

Chapter 2. Melissa Meola Shanahan & Erin Kearney: “If I had to do it myself, I think that would be really hard”: Refugee Background Youth’s Path to College

Chapter 3. Ting Huang & Aijuan Cun: Heritage Language Learning Through Watching Videos: A Case of Chinese American Students From Refugee Background Families

Chapter 4. Negar Siyari: “I Don’t Wanna Be a Regular Citizen”: Afghan Newcomers’ Perceptions of Language Learning and Literacies

Chapter 5. Anthea Fester & Jenny Field: Multimodalities and the Impact on Adults’ Emerging L2 Literacy: A New Zealand Scenario

Section II: Teachers’ Perspectives on Multiliteracies and Pedagogy

Chapter 6. Rachel L. W. Gilbertson & Lindsay N. Harris: Home Language and Culture Affirmation as a Means of Meeting the Social-emotional Needs of Newcomer Refugee Students

Chapter 7. Svetlana Mylnikova & Natalia Rud: Teachers Rediscovering the Concept of (Bi)literacy with Trauma-Affected ESOL Refugee Students: Duoethnography Based on Sociocultural Perspective

Section III: Narrative Chapters

Chapter 8. Ali Elhami: From Voluntary to Forced Migration: A Rocky Start, But A Rosy Ending: Language Learning and Integration Experiences in Spain

Chapter 9. Svetlana Mylnikova & Natalia Rud: Bolstering Adult ESL Refugee Students’ Self-advocacy: A Collection of Instructors’ Reflective Anecdotes

Chapter 10. Chatwara Suwannamai Duran: “Yes. That Happens.”: Co-Constructing Narratives Between a Karenni Mother and Her Daughter

Afterword. Doris Warriner

Über Autor(innen)

Duran, Chatwara Suwannamai
Chatwara Suwannamai Duran
is an Associate Professor at the University of Houston, USA, where she teaches Sociolinguistics and Applied Linguistics classes. Her ethnographic research focuses on multilingualism and literacies among immigrants and refugee-background families.

Chamcharatsri, Bee
Bee Chamcharatsri is Associate Professor in the Department of Language, Literacy, and Sociocultural Studies and the Department of English at the University of New Mexico, USA. His research interests include second language writing, emotions, identity, and arts-based research.

Cun, Aijuan
Aijuan Cun is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Language, Literacy, & Sociocultural Studies at the University of New Mexico, USA. Her research interests focus on family literacy practices of children and families with immigrant and refugee backgrounds, community literacy and multimodality.

Bee Chamcharatsri is a Professor in the Department of Language, Literacy, and Sociocultural Studies and the Department of English at the University of New Mexico, USA. His research interests include second language writing, emotions, identity, and arts-based research.

Aijuan Cun is an Associate Professor in the Department of Language, Literacy, & Sociocultural Studies at the University of New Mexico, USA. Her research interests focus on family literacy practices of children and families with immigrant and refugee backgrounds, community literacy and multimodality.

Chatwara Suwannamai Duran is an Associate Professor at the University of Houston, USA, where she teaches Sociolinguistics and Applied Linguistics classes. Her ethnographic research focuses on multilingualism and literacies among immigrants and refugee-background families.