BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:18961-c5d35f28c27a3bbed6882d538b819b96@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260813T040845Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260403T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260403T110000 SUMMARY:African Studies Global Virtual Forum: Decoloniality and Southern Epistem ologies—Mohammed Ateek DESCRIPTION:\nBio:\n\nMohammed Ateek is an assistant professor of commun ication at University of Leicester\, United Kingdom and University of Do ha\, College of Education\, Qatar. Mohammed's main areas of interest are language and migration\, language learning and\n\ntheories and practice of TESOL. He also researches the role of language in refugee/migrant ed ucation and how it facilitates social cohesion in hostile environments. He recently won a British Council bid on a project about refugee languag e education equity in Germany. He worked as a consultant for the UK Home Office Refugee Employability Programme and the British Council ‘Languag e for Resilience’ project.\n\nAbstract:\n\nThis study investigates an em erging area of inquiry: refugee family language policy (FLP)\, through e xamining the practices\, management and ideologies of FLP among Syrian r efugee families in Turkey. It also examines the multilingualism of the c hildren and their parents’ attitudes towards languages\, focusing on her itage language maintenance (HLM). The study aims to understand how Syria n refugee families in Türkiye construct\, negotiate and implement their FLP. Applying a qualitative approach\, the study employed semi-structure d interviews with ten families and language portraits colored by seven c hildren. Language portraits were used as a tool to make children’s multi lingualism visible by using colors to present their linguistic repertoir e. Thematic analysis using a coding scheme was used to analyze the data. The findings revealed different views by parents and children about lan guage practices\, management and ideologies. The study will conclude wit h some ethical considerations related to researching vulnerable groups.\ n\nFor more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/afr-global-virtual- forum-mohammed-ateek/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Bio:

Moha mmed Ateek is an assistant professor of communication at University of L eicester, United Kingdom and University of Doha, College of Education, Q atar. Mohammed's main areas of interest are language and migration, lang uage learning and
theories and practice of TESOL. He also researche s the role of language in refugee/migrant education and how it facilitat es social cohesion in hostile environments. He recently won a British Co uncil bid on a project about refugee language education equity in German y. He worked as a consultant for the UK Home Office Refugee Employabilit y Programme and the British Council ‘Language for Resilience’ project.

Abstract:

This study investigates an emerging area of inquiry : refugee family language policy (FLP), through examining the practices, management and ideologies of FLP among Syrian refugee families in Turke y. It also examines the multilingualism of the children and their parent s’ attitudes towards languages, focusing on heritage language maintenanc e (HLM). The study aims to understand how Syrian refugee families in Tür kiye construct, negotiate and implement their FLP. Applying a qualitativ e approach, the study employed semi-structured interviews with ten famil ies and language portraits colored by seven children. Language portraits were used as a tool to make children’s multilingualism visible by using colors to present their linguistic repertoire. Thematic analysis using a coding scheme was used to analyze the data. The findings revealed diff erent views by parents and children about language practices, management and ideologies. The study will conclude with some ethical consideration s related to researching vulnerable groups.

For more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/afr-global-virtual-forum-mohammed -ateek/

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