Description
Migration to Iceland has grown rapidly in recent years and the changing demographics have had an impact on society as well as the education system. The research project, Language policies and practices of diverse immigrant families in Iceland and their implications for education (LPP) aims at critically exploring the language policies and practices of diverse immigrant families. The project focuses on how these impact their children’s education and the relationships between these families, their heritage language communities, their teachers and principals. The LPP project involves 16 immigrant families, who have diverse languages and educational and socio-economic backgrounds and their children of different genders, as well as the children’s teachers and principals at preschool and compulsory school levels and, where relevant, their heritage language teachers. The LPP project is the first extensive Icelandic study on immigrant families’ language policies and practices and its main value is providing insight into these and their implications for educational policy and practices. Mapping the situation in Iceland in relation to active bi- and multilingualism and the development of bi- or multi-literacy of children will provide important information for schools on how to work with families for active bi- and multilingualism as well as providing information for parents and policy makers on effective language policies and practices. In our presentation we will give an overview of the project and draw on few examples from first findings.| Period | 21 Sept 2023 |
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| Event title | Fjöltyngdar fjölskyldur og skólastarf |
| Event type | Conference |
| Location | Reykjavík, IcelandShow on map |
| Degree of Recognition | National |