Learning and maintaining languages in the workplace : migrant NGO practitioners in Finland
Sahradyan, S. (2017). Learning and maintaining languages in the workplace : migrant NGO practitioners in Finland. In J.-C. Beacco, H.-J. Krumm, D. Little, & P. Thalgott (Eds.), The Linguistic Integration of Adult Migrants / L’intégration linguistique des migrants adultes : Some lessons from research / Les enseignements de la recherche (pp. 329-334). Mouton de Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110477498-045
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This article reports on a linguistic ethnographic study exploring migrant
NGO practitioners’ language learning and maintenance at work. The findings
suggest that the migrants learnt not only the language of the receiving society,
in this case Finnish, but also English as an additional language through
work. The narratives also show that the workplace supported migrants in maintaining
both their home language and additional languages. Overall, the study
highlights the importance of language learning and maintenance, which promote
the linguistic integration and social inclusion of migrant NGO practitioners
in the workplace. L’article rend compte d’une étude ethnographique sur l’apprentissage
et la consolidation de la langue des praticiens qui travaillent dans des ONG de
migrants. Elle conclut que les migrants ont appris non seulement la langue du
pays d’accueil – dans ce cas, le finnois – mais aussi l’anglais comme langue supplémentaire,
par le biais du travail. Les auteurs montrent également que le travail
aide les migrants à consolider la fois leur langue maternelle et des langues
étrangères. De façon générale, l’étude souligne l’importance de l’apprentissage
et de la consolidation de la langue pour favoriser l’intégration linguistique et sociale
des praticiens migrants dans les ONG sur le lieu de travail.
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