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Language Learning Challenges for Adult Deaf Migrants in Sweden: Experiences from a Four-Year Project
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Direct linkIngela Holmström – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2025
Upon arrival in Sweden, adult migrants are required to learn Swedish at the earliest opportunity. This requirement also extends to deaf migrants, regardless of their linguistic and educational backgrounds. This paper presents findings and experiences derived from a project focused on the multilingual situation of deaf migrants in Sweden. Some deaf…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adults, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Ana Tamayo; Marta Iravedra – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2025
This article argues in favour of higher education studies in sign language (SL) related disciplines, more specifically, sign language interpreting and translation (SLIT) -- focusing on the Spanish, and Basque, academic situation and societal needs. Firstly, we offer an overview of higher education SL teaching and SLIT training in Europe and Spain.…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Deaf Interpreting, Translation, Spanish
Cristián Iturriaga – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2025
The educational inclusion of deaf students in England is usually interpreted as placement in mainstream settings alongside hearing students, creating unintended pressure for assimilation to the communicative needs of hearing people. In this context, it is deaf students and their communication support staff who are left to deal with communicative…
Descriptors: Student Experience, Inclusion, Deafness, Oral Communication Method
