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Martina Nordqvist Färnskog – Adult Learner: The Irish Journal of Adult and Community Education, 2025
This article explores church language cafés (CLCs) in Sweden and their significance as non-formal language learning venues for migrants. Using an ethnographically inspired case study, this article employs metaphors to bring together place and space, capturing the functions and meanings of CLCs for migrants. Challenging the often-limiting…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Churches, Migrants, Communities of Practice
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Thunborg, Camilla; Osman, Ali; Bron, Agnieszka – Studies in the Education of Adults, 2021
This paper explores how young asylum seekers learn to belong to a local community. It takes its point of departure from a biographical and socially situated learning perspective and uses four analytical aspects of belonging: biographical experiences, engagement, imagination, and alignment. The data on which this paper is based are biographical…
Descriptors: Sense of Community, Communities of Practice, Situated Learning, Social Integration
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Colliander, Helena; Ahn, Song Ee; Andersson, Per – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2018
Given that it is a delicate task to meet the educational needs of adult emergent readers in a second language setting, this study serves to explore the teaching practice of teachers working with learners of initial literacy and second language. Based on a situated learning perspective, data from 16 lesson observations of nine teachers is analysed.…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Teaching Methods, Professional Identity, Adult Literacy
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Papadima-Sophocleous, Salomi, Ed.; Bradley, Linda, Ed.; Thouësny, Sylvie, Ed. – Research-publishing.net, 2016
The 23rd EUROCALL conference was held in Cyprus from the 24th to the 27th of August 2016. The theme of the conference this year was "CALL Communities and Culture." It offered a unique opportunity to hear from real-world CALL practitioners on how they practice CALL in their communities, and how the CALL culture has developed in local and…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Computer Assisted Instruction, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)