About the project
Increased globalization and immigration have led to a multilingual society in Norway, where Arabic is a significantly represented group. This PhD-project aims to shed light on how teachers and Arabic-speaking students use digital resources when working with orality in the classroom.
Through an empirical approach, the project investigates:
- How teachers facilitate the use of digital tools when working with orality in a multilingual classroom
- How Arabic-speaking students with a short period of residence use digital tools in teaching in class and in group settings
- How Arabic-speaking students with a short period of residence contribute in oral contexts in class and in group settings, both in an ordinary class and an introductory class
Objectives
The PhD-project is a qualitative study that aims to contribute to a better understanding of how digital tools can be used to develop multilingual students´ oral skills in the classroom, with special focus on Arabic-speaking students with short period of residence.
Background
The PhD-project has an ethnographic approach to the field, employing several data collection methods such as classroom observations, field notes and interviews.
The ever-increasing digitalization has given digital data collection methods greater importance, therefore screen recording and video observation are included as supplementary methods for understanding the phenomenon from different perspectives.
Financing
The project is a four-year doctoral project (2023-2027) funded by the Faculty of Education at the University of Oslo.