Nikos Gogonas

University of Thessaly | UTH · Language and Intercultural Studies

Following the Family Language Policy (FLP) framework, this ethnographic study explores the language ideologies of three expat Greek families in Luxembourg by focusing on parents. Luxembourg is an officially trilingual country and the parents in this study view multilingualism as an investment and relate it to a “European” identity and job opportuni...

The article delves into the experiences of immigrants in Greece who have been residing in the country for an extended period but face difficulties in obtaining Greek citizenship. This study is based on in-depth interviews conducted with 10 immigrants whose applications for Greek citizenship were rejected in the summer of 2022. Through these intervi...

Amid the growing trend of preserving ethnic languages within diverse ethnolinguistic communities in Greece and Cyprus, our understanding of heritage language education in these countries remains limited. The chapters in this collection undertake a thoughtful exploration of language education in the world’s two majority-Greek-speaking contexts. The...

The paper that appears in this collective volume reports on findings from an ethnographically-informed study which took place between 2015 and 2017 at a community school founded by an association of Albanian parents in Thessaloniki, Greece. The paper discusses issues of FLP as enacted by parents and children alike focusing on manifestations of agen...

This paper looks at how the promotion and usage of translanguaging practices in the teaching process facilitates learning Greek as a L2 by unaccompanied minor refugee students in a class of non-formal education. Drawing on ethnographic data the present study examines how educational interventions that were designed following the principles of trans...

The Council of Europe (CoE) has developed a toolkit to support member states in their efforts to respond to the challenges posed by unprecedented migration flows, as part of the project Linguistic Integration of Adult Migrants (LIAM). The main purpose of this study is to assess language needs of adult refugees and migrants through the implementatio...

The diversification of the linguistic spectrum of urban spaces and the ever-increasing need for human interaction, across languages, stands as a major challenge to dominant ideologies of language and translation. From a certain perspective, it becomes clear that hybridity is contingent on translation since, similar to hybridity, translation operates...

The Council of Europe has developed a toolkit to support member states in their efforts to respond to the challenges posed by unprecedented migration flows, as part of the project Linguistic Integration of Adult Migrants (LIAM). The main purpose of this study is to report from an informal implementation of aspects of the Toolkit for Language Suppor...

Τα τελευταία χρόνια εκδηλώθηκαν με τρόπο εκρηκτικό τα αδιέξοδα της ευρωπαϊκής πολιτικής για το μεταναστευτικό και το προσφυγικό ζήτημα. Η μαζική εισροή προσφύγων και μεταναστών σε ευρωπαϊκό έδαφος προκάλεσε μια αναδιοργάνωση της ευρωπαϊκής πολιτικής, η οποία ωστόσο παραμένει εγκλωβισμένη στο δίλημμα μεταξύ συνοριακής ασφάλειας και ανθρωπισμού. Αφου...

Complementary schools are an important research area of Second Language Acquisition study, involving issues of identity, linguistic socialization, second language acquisition, linguistic hegemony, etc. This article looks at the Czech Complementary School in Thessaloniki, whose main purpose is the transmission of the Czech language and culture to ge...

Against the backdrop of ongoing crisis-led migration from Southern to Northern Europe the present chapter explores the language ideologies, practices and management of migrant Greek families in Luxembourg by reporting on a comparative case study between an ‘established’ Greek family and a ‘new’ crisis-led migrant family. While the two families diff...

In this article we discuss the concept of translanguaging in relation to the theory of linguistic landscape in the Greek context in times of economic and political crisis. In particular, we look at instances in Greek public spaces where there is a combination of linguistic resources. The instances used in this paper have a political and ideological...

The financial crisis in Greece has resulted in a new wave of emigration since 2008. Luxembourg is a small yet superdiverse state with three official languages and with foreign residents making up almost half of its population. It is a popular destination for new Greek migrants. The present chapter reports on a case study of two crisis-led, highly s...

The financial crisis in Greece has resulted in a new wave of emigration since 2008. Luxembourg is a small yet superdiverse state with three official languages and with foreign residents making up almost half of its population. It is a popular destination for new Greek migrants. The present chapter reports on a case study of two crisis-led, highly s...

In this article we discuss the concept of translanguaging in relation to the theory of linguistic landscape in the Greek context in times of economic and political crisis. In particular, we look at instances in Greek public spaces where there is a combination of linguistic resources. The instances used in this paper have a political and ideological...

Against the backdrop of the ongoing crisis-led migration from Southern to Northwestern Europe, the present paper reports on a case study of two families who have recently migrated from Greece to Luxembourg. Luxembourg has a trilingual education system and many pupils of migrant background face difficulties on this account. Drawing on the framework...

This paper explores the language ideologies of three middle-class migrant Greek families in Luxembourg, one ‘established’ family and two ‘new’ crisis-led migrant families, all of whose children attend Luxembourgish state schools. While the families differ in terms of migration trajectory, their language ideologies converge. The findings of this eth...

The focus of this paper is on the relationship between Albanian speakers’ ethnolinguistic vitality perceptions and their language maintenance, language use and choice patterns. A subjective EV vitality questionnaire, and a language usage questionnaire capturing domain-specific language use was completed by 200 Albanian immigrants of first and secon...

This paper presents the findings of research investigating language maintenance/shift among second-generation Arabic speakers in Athens using adolescents of mainly Egyptian origin and their parents as informants. Quantitative data on language competence and on patterns of language use within Egyptian households indicate language shift in adolescent...

Post-1990 Albanian migration—mainly to Italy and Greece—has been one of Europe’s most remarkable and still-evolving migration episodes of recent years. Albania has the highest migratory flow in Europe which is five times higher than the average flow of emigration in most other developing countries (Barjaba 2004). Despite its scale and intensity, Al...

"Bilingualism and Multiculturalism in Greek Education" investigates the factors affecting language maintenance/shift among second-generation Albanian and Egyptian migrant pupils in Athens. Using a combined quantitative and qualitative methodology, it explores the influence of three sets of variables on language maintenance. These are a) ethnolingui...

Albanian immigration to Greece started in the beginning of the 1990s and the second generation of Albanian immigrants is a recent phenomenon. This paper presents the findings of research investigating language maintenance/shift among second generation Albanian immigrants in Athens using as main informants adolescents of Albanian origin. Quantitativ...

This paper presents the findings of research investigating language attitudes among indigenous and immigrant groups living in Athens using as informants adolescents of Greek, Albanian and Egyptian origin and utilising quantitative and qualitative methods. The examination of pupils' linguistic perceptions utilising an adaptation of the SEV questionn...