Supported by SIU (Senter for internasjonalisering av utdanning).
Talks:
12.30-12.55 Professor Joseph Dicks, Second Language Research Institute of Canada, University of New Brunswick, Canada: French Immersion Students’ Language Repertoires for Investigating Mathematics
In this presentation I will present data collected as part of a 3-year study aimed at exploring the linguistic resources used by students at three grade levels studying mathematics in their L2. Key questions include: How do French immersion (FI) students talk about mathematical concepts in their second language (L2)? What linguistic resources do they draw upon to negotiate ideas such as probability? Are there differences in students’ language repertoires as they move through the FI program? Analyses revealed some differences in the linguistic repertoires used by the three groups of learners to express modality (degrees of certainty). However, despite these differences, there was a reliance on similar linguistic structures at all three grade levels.
12.55-13.20 PhD student Karla Culligan, Second Language Research Institute of Canada, University of New Brunswick, Canada: Using Classroom-Based Research to Explore Mathematics and Language in Secondary French Immersion
This presentation is based on my PhD research, a classroom-based study that aims to better understand how bilingual mathematics students use and attend to language and mathematics while they interact to solve various mathematical problems. Drawing from sociocultural theory, I focus on the interactive nature of language learning (Vygotsky, 1978) and view mathematics as a situated, social activity (Moschkovich, 2007). I will discuss the research context, selected literature, the methodology, and some preliminary results stemming from discourse analysis (Gee, 2014). To conclude, I will reflect on the data collection process and outline next steps for the study.
13.20-13.45 Associate Professor Anne Fyhn, UiT The Arctic University of Norway: Translation of six words – no job for a dictionary
13.45-14.00 Break
14.00-14.25 Associate Professor Carola B. Kleemann, UiT The Arctic University of Norway : Language Practices in a Sami kindergarten in Norway
14.25-14.50 PhD student Anna-Kaisa Räisänen, the Kven Institute: Language Educational Rights - Kven Language in Porsanger
14.50-15.15 PhD student Anita Movik Simensen and Associate Professor Hilja Huru, UiT The Arctic University of Norway: Culturally based mathematics tasks: a framework for designing tasks from Kven traditional knowledge
15.15-15.30 Discussions, questions, concluding remarks