Rapidly increasing migration flows contribute to the development of multiple forms of social and cultural differentiation in urban areas – or to ‘super-diversity’. Language diversity is an important part of the resulting new social and cultural constellations. Although linguistic diversity is not a… read more
Moenandar, Sjoerd-Jeroen, Floor Basten, Giti Taran, Ariadni Panagoulia, Gemma Coughlan and Joana Duarte 2024 The structured narrative interviewApplied Narratology, Moenandar, Sjoerd-Jeroen, Laura Karttunen and Anna Ovaska (eds.), pp. 307–334 | Article
In this study, Greimas’s work on narrative structure is used to improve a specific practice: the research interview. In the social sciences, narrative interviewing often consists of collecting data from which a narrative is then constructed through analysis afterwards. In the interview method… read more
The rise of English in Dutch higher education has been accompanied by a language ideological debate that affects students’ and lecturers’ lives at the micro level, policy and planning at the meso (institutional) level and is related to the macro perspective (national political agenda). This… read more
Competence in the academic register of the language of instruction is a fairly solid indicator for the educational success of migrant pupils. The present article addresses the role of family languages for academic language performance in German, aiming at pinpointing linguistic features of this… read more
The relatively recent phenomenon of rapidly increasing migration flows in multiple forms and channels has been termed superdiversity (Vertovec 2007). The resulting new social constellations see an increase in the amount and types of language proficiencies, particularly in large urban areas.… read more
