Language at work: Migrants and Nordic workplaces

Organizers: Gunlög Sundberg & Aina Bigestans

Department of Swedish Language and Multilingualism & National Centre for Swedish as a Second Language, Stockholm University

Invited speaker:  Visiting Professor Tim McNamara (Professor emeritus, LTRC, University of Melbourne, Australia)

Programme:

Språket på arbetsplatsen: migranter och nordiska arbetsplatser
 

https://www.su.se/institutionen-for-svenska-och-flersprakighet/kalender/workshop-spr%C3%A5ket-p%C3%A5-arbetsplatsen-migranter-och-nordiska-arbetsplatser-13-14-6-1.610837

Language at work: migrants and Nordic workplaces

https://www.su.se/department-of-swedish-language-and-multilingualism/calendar/workshop-language-at-work-migrants-and-nordic-workplaces-13-14-6-1.610908

Organizers: Minna Suni & Building Blocks research team, Department of Language and Communication Studies, University of Jyväskylä, in collaboration with Marte Monsen, Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences

Key theme: L2 for work in vocational education and integration training 

Invited speker: Associate Professor Nóra Schleicher, Budapest Metropolitan University

The workshop is organized just before the ALAPP 2022 conference (12th International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice), where our NOS-HS team also has a symposium of 18 presentations.

Programme:

Tuesday, September 13, 2022

Opening + JYU research profile: Applied language studies & Multiliteracies. Minna Suni & Päivi Iikkanen

Building blocks: Developing second language resources for working life project. Sanna Mustonen, Pauliina Puranen, Katharina Ruuska & Maiju Strömmer. University of Jyväskylä https://buildingblocksresearch.com/

Keynote: “This Scandinavia, this is a Paradise.” Voices of Hungarian speaking migrant medical workers in Sweden. Nóra Schleicher, Budapest Metropolitan University

Norwegian language learning in the cleaning industry. How do supervisors and colleagues experience their role? Marte Bjørklund, University of Bergen

Integra: University studies as part of the integration path programme. Johanna Saario & Tuija Lehtonen, University of Jyväskylä  https://movi.jyu.fi/en/development/integra

Discussion

Wednesday, September 14, 2022

KongNor project, Marte Monsen (online), Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences https://app.cristin.no/projects/show.jsf?id=632450

Data workshop: Glo-Lo: Globalizing construction work and local language practices project, Niina Lilja & Nathalie Schümchen, Tampere University  https://www.tuni.fi/fi/tutkimus/globalizing-construction-work-and-local-language-practices-glo-lo

Data workshop: Multilingual worklife and patterns of participation project, Salla Kurhila & Inkeri Lehtimaja, University of Helsinki Multilingual worklife and means of participation | University of Helsinki

Short project presentations: LanguageBoost, Health care Finnish, DK report on Language socialization at the workplace in the Nordic countries 

Discussion

Key theme: Migrants and Nordic Workplaces: Language policy and language ideology

Organizers: Dorte Lønnsman & Marta Kirilova, University of Copenhagen

University of Copenhagen, Søndre Campus, room 4A.1.68

Thursday, April 13,  9.30-16.30

9.30 Welcome: Marta Kirilova and Dorte Lønsmann
9.45 Presenting ongoing research on language, migration and workplaces in Denmark
Anne Holmen, Center of Internationalisation and Parallel Language Use, University of
Copenhagen
10.15 Charlotte Sun Jensen, Aarhus University
10.45 Coffee break
11.15 Guest speaker: Marlene Spanger, University of Aalborg: Convoluted mobility:
Precarity, labour and migration
12.15 Lunch
13.15 Guest speaker: Kamran Khan, University of Birmingham: Language and the ghetto:
Space, language and risk
14.15 Presenting ongoing research on language, migration and workplaces in Denmark
Johanna Lindell & Martha Karrebæk, University of Copenhagen
14.45 Coffee break
15.00 Updates from the Nordic countries: Sweden, Finland & Norway

18.30 Dinner 

Friday, April 14, 9.30-15.30

9.30 Societal impact: Collaboration with authorities and participants
Marta Kirilova, University of Copenhagen, and Louise Tranekjær, Roskilde University:
Knowledge-based package on language at the workplace in the Nordic countries
Louise Tranekjær, Roskilde University: Developing digital second language learning
games from workplace research
Marta Kirilova, University of Copenhagen: Collaboration with the Danish Red Cross:
playing cards and learning Danish
10.30 Coffee break
11.00 Language, migration and work from an interdisciplinary perspective
Silvia Adamo, Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen: Linguistic requirements for
immigrant integration in Danish law
11.45 Mette Foged, Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen: Access to
language training and the local integration of refugees
12.30 Lunch
13.15 Where do we go from here? New networks, applications, conference panels etc.
(Facilitated brainstorm session for network members, but other participants are
welcome to join if they like.)
Coffee and snacks for the group work

15.30-17.30 Visit to Copenhill: Goodbye to the network at the top of Copenhagen

Language at work: Migrants and Nordic workplaces

Network meeting 10.6.2026, Universitetet i Bergen, Norge

Program:

10.15-10.30  Gjensynsprat med kaffe og frukt

10.30-10.45  Presentasjon av kvalfiseringsprogrammet Ny Sjanse og kaféen Mat og Prat (Engensenteret, Teatergaten 43)

10.45-11.10  En runde med nytt fra hvert land

11.05-11.10  Informasjon om nye nordiske nettverk

11.10-11.20  Ina Celise Sortland - presentasjon av PhD-prosjekt, NHH

KORT PAUSE

11.25-11.35  Stine Lilje Bøe - presentasjon av avsluttet MA-prosjekt

11.35-11.40   Ninja-prosjektet, UiB

11.40-11.45   SISI-prosjektet, UiB

11.45-11.50  Info om relevante prosjekt ved Fagspråksenteret, UiB

11.50-11.55  Info om nytt etterutdanningsemne ved UiB: «Arbeidsrettet norskopplæring»

12.00-13.00 Lunsj

13.00 Registrering til Nordand-konferansen starter - Vi går fra "Mat og Prat» til hotel Terminus

Panel i Nordand 11.6. 13.00-15.30: Arbejdssprog og sprogarbejde – konstruktioner af sprog og arbejde-relationer

Ordstyrar: Verónica Pájaro, Kamilla Kraft og Charlotte Sun Jensen

Veronica Pajaro: Language of Knowledge, Language of Work, and Language of the Nation: Implementing Language Requirements in Norwegian Academia

Ingvild Nistov, Tina Nordby, Live Christine Tjervåg, Marte Bjørklund, Helga Mannsåker, Jorunn Vidnes & Solveig Weltzien: «Når jeg bruker uttrykk som en norsk, da føler jeg meg bra» - Konvensjonelle formulariske uttrykk som språklig kapital i arbeidspraksis

Johanna Komppa, Eveliina Korpela & Katriina Eronen: Structuring talk, supporting learning: ISBAR in language workshops for CALD nurses

Charlotte Sun Jensen & Kamilla Kraft: The segmented language of agricultural work

Plenumsforedrag i Nordand 12.6.2026 9.00-10.00: Minna Suni: Second language perspectives to social sustainability in working life

Language at work: Migrants and Nordic workplaces 

11-12.6.2024, Södertörns Högskola 

Dag 1. 11.6.2024

12.30  Välkommen till Stockholm 😊!   

Gemensam lunch på Södermalm, för dem som anlänt till Stockholm. Preliminärt Bondegatan 54.

(15 min promenad till Språkrådet)

14.00 Besök på Språkrådet 

Adress: Alsnögatan 7, 7 tr. 116 41 Stockholm. Närmsta tunnelbana: Skanstull (promenad 15 min), annars Nacka-Värmdöbussarna (vilken som helst) från Slussen hpl. Londonviadukten, alternativt buss 2, från t ex Kungsträdgården, till Alsnögatan (https://www.isof.se/vart-uppdrag/om-myndigheten/organisation/avdelninga…)

14.00-14.20     Språkrådets chef Lena Lind Palicki berättar om Språkrådet och flerspråkighetsarbetet

14.20-15.00     Sofia Tingsell och Pernilla Johansson berättar om rapporten ”Flerspråkighet i arbete” och om pågående projekt om språktestning för anställning i svenska kommuner.

15.00- 15.15    Nätverket presenterar sitt arbete.

15.15-15.45     Johanna Komppa och Inkeri Lehitimaja från Helsingfors Universitet presenterar arbetet med den finska handledningen för flerspråkiga arbetsplatser.

15.45-16.00     Diskussion

Middag 

16.00-16.30     Promenad till Nacka för gemensam middag         

Dag 2. 12.6.2024   

Nätverksträff på Södertörns högskola

Alfred Nobels Allé 7, Huddinge. 

9.00-11.30           Presentation av Södertörns forskningsprofil. Stina Hållsten och Hedda Söderlundh 

Projektpresentationer från Danmark, Finland, Norge och Sverige 

11.30-12.00         Planer för nästa aktiviteter i nätverket

12.00-12.40         Lunch på Södertörns högskola inför öppnandet av konferensen Nordand 16. 

Thematic symposium in Nordand: Nordic languages as second languages, June 12-14, 2024, Södertörn U. Organizers: Verónica Pájaro & Kamilla Kraft

Kirilova, Marta; Rasmussen, Louise Bisted Tranekjær; Svendsen Pedersen, Michael; Holmen, Anne 2024: Language learning in the workplace: Literature review and recommendations. University of Copenhagen.  (Edition in English funded by NOS-HS)

https://curis.ku.dk/ws/portalfiles/portal/431538170/C17_Language_learni…