What are the needs of new migrants in relation to their children’s language education?
How do their children use the Greek language in their everyday life?
What are parents’ attitudes and perspectives?
These are the basic questions that the ‘Migrant’ project addresses.
In a few words
Migrant (“Investigation of adolescent digital literacy practices for the design of Modern Greek language teaching to youth of new migration background”) is a 3-year research project recently granted by the Hellenic Foundation for Research & Innovation (H.F.R.I.) within the 1st Call for H.F.R.I. Research Projects to Support Faculty Members & Researchers and Procure High-Value Research Equipment and is realized by the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
The study
An ethnographic study of the literacy practices of new migrants’ children in Australia and Germany
Theoretic principles
Sociolinguistics of education, Ethnography of Literacy, Language Teaching, Multilingualism
Impact
Drafting of proposals concerning Greek language teaching in the Diaspora
Participation
Participation in the research