Enablements and Constraints: Inventorying Affordances Associated with Lingua Franca English

Autor/in	Henry, Alastair
Titel	Enablements and Constraints: Inventorying Affordances Associated with Lingua Franca English
Quelle	In: International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 19 (2016) 5, S.488-510 (23 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1367-0050
DOI	10.1080/13670050.2015.1014465
Schlagwörter	Official Languages; English (Second Language); Second Language Learning; Swedish; Immigrants; Migration; Language Classification; Interpersonal Communication; Second Language Instruction; Language Attitudes; Cognitive Processes; Learning Motivation; Refugees; Semi Structured Interviews; Barriers; Language Role; Foreign Countries; Sweden + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Office language; Amtssprache; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Schwedisch; Immigrant; Immigrantin; Immigranten; Sprachtypologie; Interpersonale Kommunikation; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Sprachverhalten; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Motivation for studies; Lernmotivation; Flüchtling; Ausland; Schweden
Abstract	Transcultural flows of capital, culture and communication have created conditions for the widespread movement of people around the globe, leading to increasing diversity in countries of destination. In contexts of global migration lingua franca English is indispensable in initial and survival communication. For migrants to northern European countries where lingua franca English functions as a "contact language" in "contact zone encounters", it is of value not only as a communication medium, but also as a resource for learning typologically similar host-country languages. Drawing on the concept of affordances, the purpose of this study is to create an inventory of the ways in which English can facilitate, but also constrain social interaction and the acquisition of Swedish. Interviews conducted with 14 recently arrived migrants with English in their repertoires revealed the presence of enabling and constraining affordances in "social", "classroom", "material" and "cognitive" domains. Discussing the study findings, it is suggested that the ways in which the individual attunes to an affordance associated with English, perceiving it as either enabling or constraining, is dependent on their current motivational and affective state and in-the-moment cognitive processing. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01