Teaching Immigrants Norwegian Culture to Support Their Language Learning

Autor/inn/en	Alhassan, Awal Mohammed; Kuyini, Ahmed Bawa
Titel	Teaching Immigrants Norwegian Culture to Support Their Language Learning
Quelle	In: International Education Studies, 6 (2013) 3, S.15-25 (11 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1913-9020
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Immigrants; Cultural Awareness; Second Language Learning; Norwegian; Student Attitudes; Educational Benefits; Qualitative Research; Statistical Analysis; Questionnaires; Language Skills; Adult Education; Refugees; Second Language Instruction; Language Attitudes; Norway + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Immigrant; Immigrantin; Immigranten; Cultural identity; Kulturelle Identität; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Norwegisch; Schülerverhalten; Bildungsertrag; Qualitative Forschung; Statistische Analyse; Fragebogen; Language skill; Sprachkompetenz; Adult; Adults; Education; Adult basic education; Adult training; Erwachsenenbildung; Flüchtling; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Sprachverhalten; Norwegen
Abstract	This study was conducted with 48 adult immigrant students studying Norwegian under basic education program of the Ski Municipality Adult Education Unit between 2009-2011. Using the framework of Genc and Bada (2005), we tried to replicate their study in a new setting--Norway. The study investigated migrant students' perceptions learning Norwegian culture and its effects on their learning of the Norwegian language. The participants responded to a set of questionnaire and one open-ended question adapted from Bada (2000) and Genc and Bada (2005). Descriptive statistics and qualitative analysis procedures were used to analyse the data. The results showed that teaching culture to immigrant students raised their cultural awareness of their own and the Norwegian society. It also improved both their language skills and attitudes to the Norwegian culture. The study revealed some similarity between the students' views and the theoretical benefits of a culture class as argued by some experts in the field. The results provide some further evidence of the benefits of learning cultural content as an integral part of learning a new language. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01