Healthcare professionals on the move: Investing in learning a new language for work

Schleicher, Nóra; Suni, Minna

doi:10.5128/lv31.06

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“…While Darvin and Norton's (2015) investment model has been extensively employed in research on educational contexts, the term "language investment" is also used in a broader sense by scholars in workplace settings (e.g. Babaei, 2019;Flubacher et al, 2016Flubacher et al, , 2018Garrido, 2020;Gonçalves, 2020;Schleicher & Suni, 2021;Sherman & Homoláč, 2020;Strömmer, 2016Strömmer, , 2017. The nonacquisition of the host country's language is commonly tolerated for high skilled, highly educated white-collar foreign workers (Nekvapil & Sherman, 2013.…”

Section: Language Learning and Investment In The Workplacementioning

confidence: 99%

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Arum

2024

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While English is widely used as the working language in multinational companies, local languages still play an important role in the workplace. This puts international employees in a difficult position, as they face pressure to become competent in the local language in addition to being proficient in English. This paper aims to shed light on the language learning experience of migrant engineers in Norway by exploring their investment (Darvin & Norton, 2015) in learning Norwegian and its interplay with their language learning trajectories. The analysis of the participants’ autobiographic narrative accounts (Pavlenko, 2007) shows that different workspaces lead to different ideologies at play and a shifting value of linguistic capital over time. The reported language practices in the workplace devalue the participants’ English language capital and create pressure for them to use Norwegian for work. Despite the participants’ investment in learning the local language(s), it does not always translate to a sense of belonging and career progression due to ideologies that marginalize these migrant employees, such as raciolinguistic ideologies (Alim et al., 2016). This study provides new insights into the lived experience of highly skilled professionals as learners of languages other than English in multinational companies.

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Section: Language Learning and Investment In The Workplacementioning

confidence: 99%

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Arum

2024

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“…EU/ ETA-alueen ulkopuolelta Suomeen tulevat joutuvat usein täydentämään myös tutkintoaan ennen laillistamista ja työskentelemään siksi alkuun alkuperäistä koulutustaan vastaamattomissa tehtävissä. (Raunio 2013;Schleicher & Suni 2021. ) On myös aloja, joilla työskentelee paljon ulkomailta tullutta henkilöstöä ilman, että he olisivat suoraan suomalaisten työnantajien palveluksessa.…”

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Kielikoulutus valmistamassa monikieliseen työelämään

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Suni,

Ruuska

et al. 2023

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Over the last couple of decades, working life in Finland has become more multilingual, multi-sited, mobile and digitalised. At the same time, Finland increasingly relies on work-based immigration to fill gaps in the workforce. Since language skills are considered key to employment, language education plays an important role in migrants’ integration into the Finnish labour market and work communities. This article discusses the role of language(s) and language education in increasingly complex working life contexts with particular emphasis on Finnish as a second language. We first provide an overview of ongoing developments in Finnish working life and issues regarding recruitment, language requirements and language practices at multilingual workplaces. Second, we describe how language education in vocational education, integration training and higher education is (re)designed to facilitate migrants’ employment. Finally, we discuss how work communities and language educators can respond to the challenges of an increasingly complex and multilingual work life.

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“…Mukaan on valittu Ruuskan (2020) väitöskirjaaineistosta ja Sunin johtamien työelämän kielikysymyksiin keskittyvien hankkeiden (ks. Seilonen, Suni, Neittaanmäki & Härmälä 2016;Suni 2017;Schleicher & Suni 2021) aineistoista harkinnanvaraisesti yhteensä 13 tuntia sellaisia haastatteluja, joissa nousee esiin toisiaan täydentäviä näkökulmia edistyneisyyteen. Ensin mainitusta käsitellään tässä artikkelissa haastatteluotteita Alexanderilta (AL, äidinkieli saksa), Biankalta (BK, unkari), Emilieltä (EM, ranska), Juditilta (JU, unkari), Marielta (MA, ranska) ja Sergeiltä (SE, venäjä) ja viimemainituista kolmelta unkarinkieliseltä terveydenhuollon ammattilaiselta, Anikólta (AN), Nóralta (NO) ja Tamásilta (TA).…”

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“…Aineistoesimerkkien valinta nojaa laajemman aineiston aiempaan systemaattiseen analyysiin (mm. Ruuska 2016Ruuska , 2019Ruuska , 2020Suni 2017;Schleicher & Suni 2021), jossa on jo tunnistettu erilaisia edistyneiden kielenoppijoiden kokemuksissa toistu-via teemoja ja positiointeja. Tässä artikkelissa nostetetaan tarkasteluun menestys, poikkeuksellisuus, kielelliseen variaatioon liittyvät haasteet ja identiteettikysymykset, riittämättömyyden kokemus ja natiivi-ideaalin tavoittelu sekä legitimiteetti ja erilaisuus.…”

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Omaa paikkaa etsimässä: edistyneisyys suomea toisena kielenään puhuvien kokemana

Ruuska¹,

Suni²

2022

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This article takes up a central question of Kirsti Siitonen’s dissertation – how advancedness in Finnish as a second language can be characterized – and investigates it from the perspective of research terminology as well as the lived experience of language users. We first discuss how and with what implications advanced learners of Finnish have been referred to in the research literature, i.e. whether they have been regarded as learners, speakers or other kinds of language users. Applying a small stories approach to interview data from different research projects, we then explore what advancedness means to such language users themselves. We conclude that advanced learners navigate a complex sociolinguistic context in which their place is not self-evident. Insights into their experiences contribute to debates about the migration – or recruitment – of highly educated professionals who need very advanced Finnish skills in order to work in their field in Finland.

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Healthcare professionals on the move: Investing in learning a new language for work

Cited by 4 publications

References 15 publications

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“Only this time in English”

Kielikoulutus valmistamassa monikieliseen työelämään

Omaa paikkaa etsimässä: edistyneisyys suomea toisena kielenään puhuvien kokemana

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