BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Sabre//Sabre VObject 4.5.7//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Zurich X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Zurich TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/Europe/Zurich BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:19810329T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:19961027T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news524@osteuropa.philhist.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230425T155338 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230502T141500 SUMMARY:Second language acquisition in a context of high intercomprehension : The case of Ukrainian refugees learning Polish DESCRIPTION:Since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on 24 Fe bruary 2022\, 11.08 million refugees crossed the country’s border into P oland. We investigate peer learner networks of 249 participants in an inte nsive course of the Polish language dedicated to the newcomer population. The participants came mainly from eastern\, southern and northern Ukraine (the further east the origins\, the higher the proportion of declared use of Russian). Apart from the special situational context\, together with th e close typological similarity between the languages spoken and being acqu ired\, the students present a unique language constellation profile\, with almost all being functionally bilingual in Ukrainian and Russian\, but wi th different degrees of dominance in each language and complicated attitud es to the latter. We apply the tools of computational social network analy sis to find out whether and how patterns of out-of-class communication wit hin the cohort (and beyond\; notably with family members back in Ukraine\, accounting for roughly 30% of interaction time) interacted with the stude nts’ linguistic gains.\\r\\nInteractional data reveal concealment of L1 Russian use: 62% of users of Russian in the private sphere declared Ukrain ian as their L1. A reconstruction of the student networks shows higher wei ghted degree centrality among students declaring Ukrainian as their L1\, w hile L1 Russian speakers are at the network periphery\, suggesting linguis tic segregation with symptoms of marginalisation. The refugee students are most satisfied with their communication in Polish with neighbours and vol unteers\, less so in service encounters and the workplace\, and the least in the administrative sphere. Polish language use was highest in text mess ages. The students self-rated their progress best in vocabulary and lowest in grammar. Reading in turn demonstrates a visible (though non-significan t) trend of positively correlating with the length of stay in Poland and n egatively with entry-level competence. X-ALT-DESC:

Since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022\, 11.08 million refugees crossed the country’s border into Poland. We investigate peer learner networks of 249 participants in an in tensive course of the Polish language dedicated to the newcomer population . The participants came mainly from eastern\, southern and northern Ukrain e (the further east the origins\, the higher the proportion of declared us e of Russian). Apart from the special situational context\, together with the close typological similarity between the languages spoken and being ac quired\, the students present a unique language constellation profile\, wi th almost all being functionally bilingual in Ukrainian and Russian\, but with different degrees of dominance in each language and complicated attit udes to the latter. We apply the tools of computational social network ana lysis to find out whether and how patterns of out-of-class communication w ithin the cohort (and beyond\; notably with family members back in Ukraine \, accounting for roughly 30% of interaction time) interacted with the stu dents’ linguistic gains.

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Interactional data reveal concealment o f L1 Russian use: 62% of users of Russian in the private sphere declared U krainian as their L1. A reconstruction of the student networks shows highe r weighted degree centrality among students declaring Ukrainian as their L 1\, while L1 Russian speakers are at the network periphery\, suggesting li nguistic segregation with symptoms of marginalisation. The refugee student s are most satisfied with their communication in Polish with neighbours an d volunteers\, less so in service encounters and the workplace\, and the l east in the administrative sphere. Polish language use was highest in text messages. The students self-rated their progress best in vocabulary and l owest in grammar. Reading in turn demonstrates a visible (though non-signi ficant) trend of positively correlating with the length of stay in Poland and negatively with entry-level competence.

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