Vielfalt mobilisiert – und zwar vor allem im Kopf. Davon ist Dr. Marc Hill vom Institut für Erziehungswissenschaft überzeugt. Der Bildungswissenschaftler beschäftigt sich mit verschiedenen Aspekten von Migration und sieht in mobilitätsbedingter Vielfalt gerade für den Bildungsbereich großes, oftmals verkanntes Potenzial. (more…)
Der Frage, ob ein ganzes Leben in einen Koffer passt, mussten sich unzählige Menschen vor ihrer Migration in ein neues fernes Land stellen. Erol Yildiz, Professor am Institut für Erziehungswissenschaft und seine Mitarbeiterin Miriam Hill haben länderübergreifend die Lebensstrategien von Migrationsfamilien untersucht. (more…)
Baban Mohamed received his Master’s degree in English and American Studies (General/Applied Linguistics) from the University of Salzburg in Austria. He has B.A. degree in English Language and Literature from the University of Sulaimania (the Kurdistan Region of Iraq). Since 2005 Baban is living and studying in the beautiful Mozart’s City of Music, Salzburg. His research interests cover the areas of bilingual/ bicultural acquisition, child code-switching and sociolinguistics.
Q. Very recently you published research work titled: ‘Code-switching: A Case Study of Kurdish-German Pre-school Bilingual Children’ as part of European University Studies. Before going deep into your research, my first question to you: What is Bilingualism’?
Baban Mohamed: The book is a sociolinguistic research within the field of child bilingualism about the language and culture development of immigrant pre-school children, the case study of Kurdish community in Austria. The book addresses accounts of how children develop the functions and roles of different languages and how they manage to keep the language systems apart or switch from one to the other – not arbitrarily or due to a lack of competence as sometimes has been suggested but purposefully and with functions in mind. (more…)
