Vietnamese refugees acquiring proficiency with Australian-English vowels

1990 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-42
Author(s):  
Jeffery Pittam ◽  
John Ingram
Keyword(s):  
First Year ◽  
Short Vowel ◽  
Social Unit ◽  
Vietnamese Refugees ◽  
Refugee Families ◽  
English Vowels ◽  
The Family ◽  
Family Case ◽  
Australian English

Abstract This paper presents data from a longitudinal study of Vietnamese refugee families acquiring Australian-English. Specifically, the paper is concerned with Vietnamese acquiring proficiency with vowels. It documents the progress made by four members of a Vietnamese family across their first year in the country, reporting on two areas of production known to be difficult for Vietnamese: the long-short vowel distinctions, and diphthongs before a final consonant. It also reports on the subjects’ discrimination of the monophthongal vowels of Australian-English. It is shown that, for this family, the long-short distinctions are particularly problematic in terms of both production and discrimination. The report is presented as a family case study. Psycho-social factors influencing the development of the four family members are discussed. It is stressed that we as teachers and researchers need to be aware of these factors, particularly those relating to the family – the most important social unit in Vietnamese culture.

scholarly journals “Your Eyes Open and so do Your Ears”: Centering Knowledge of Families with Refugee Backgrounds during a Follow-up Interview

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Cynthia C. Reyes ◽  
Shana J. Haines ◽  
Hemant Ghising ◽  
Ashraf Alamatori ◽  
Madina Haji ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Initial Interview ◽  
Refugee Families ◽  
Family Narratives ◽  
The Family ◽  
Eyes Open ◽  
Family Case ◽  
Student Researchers ◽  
Methodological Approaches

In an exploratory case study of partnerships between educators and refugee families recently resettled in the U.S, we conducted follow-up interviews with each of the ten participating families during year one. In this paper, we report on themes from these interviews highlighted in three family case studies. We used methodological approaches that enabled us to reenvision and interrogate the power structure inherent in research relationships between ‘researcher’ and ‘researched.” The purposes of the additional interview were to conduct a member check on the data we had gathered, understand what had changed since our initial interview with the family, and gather families’ feedback about our comportment and methods. The two-part question was, How might decolonizing methods from a postcolonial lens serve as guideposts for disrupting research methods with families with refugee backgrounds?, and How did partnering with transnational student researchers inform ways of representing the family narratives? The follow-up narratives suggest a complex understanding of building knowledge within the limitations of a conventional research paradigm.        

Alevi-Zaza Belongings Beyond Borders: Insider/Outsider Attributions and Identity Empowerment Strategies in Transnational and Multigenerational Family Spaces between Turkey and Diaspora

2013 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 79-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Halil Can
Keyword(s):  
Labor Migration ◽  
Transnational Migration ◽  
Mass Murder ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Labor Migrants ◽  
The Family ◽  
Multigenerational Family ◽  
Family Case

Building on a long-term, multi-sited ethnographic research project, this article illustrates and interprets the transformation processes and empowerment strategies pursued by an originally Zazaki-speaking, multigenerational Alevi family in the Turkish-German transnational context. The family, which includes a number of Alevi priests (seyyid or dede), hails from the Dersim4 region of eastern Anatolia, and their family biography is closely bound up with a traumatic mass murder and crime against humanity that local people call “Dersim 38“ or “Tertele.“ Against the background of this tragedy, the family experienced internal migration (through forced remigration and settlement) thirty years before its labor migration to Germany. This family case study accordingly examines migration as a multi-faceted process with plural roots and routes. The migration of people from Turkey neither begins nor ends with labor migration to Germany. Instead, it involves the continuous, nonlinear, and multidirectional movement of human beings, despite national border regimes and politics. As a result, we can speak of migration processes that are at once voluntary and forced, internal and external, national and transnational. 5 In this particular case, the family members, even the pioneer generation labor migrants who have since become shuttle migrants, maintain close relationships with Dersim even as they spend most of their lives in a metropolitan German city. At the same time, they confront moments of everyday in- and exclusion in this transnational migration space that define them as both insiders and out- siders. Keeping these asymmetrical attributions in mind, I examine the family's sociocultural, religious, and political practices and resources from a transna- tional perspective, paying close attention to their conceptualization of identity and belonging as well as their empowerment strategies.

A Family Observed: Theological and Family Systems Perspectives on the Grief Experience

1993 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter L. VanKatwyk
Keyword(s):  
Family Systems ◽  
Family Context ◽  
Integrative Model ◽  
The Family ◽  
Family Case ◽  
Grief Reactions ◽  
Grief Ministry ◽  
Family Case Study

Explores the grief experience in a family case study and proposes an integrative model of pastoral grief ministry in which personal grief reactions are attended to within the family context. Utilizes developmental/systemic perspectives to correlate the family grief experience with the process of family grief ministry, focusing especially on the pastoral task of facilitating the family in constructing a healing theory.

scholarly journals COVID INFECTION DURING THE SECOND PANDEMIC WAVE: PHYSICIAN INSIGHTS AND LEARNINGS FROM A FAMILY CASE STUDY

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (6) ◽  
pp. 916-920
Author(s):  
Varsha Narayanan ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Family Care ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Holistic Health ◽  
Individual Treatment ◽  
The Family ◽  
Family Case ◽  
Second Wave ◽  
Health And Well Being ◽  
Family Case Study

The COVID pandemic has made a more rigorous comeback in 2021 with severely impactful second waves in many countries especially India. In contrast to the previous year, in the second wave the younger population and entire families have been affected at a given time. Medical management by the family physician involves not only individual treatment and monitoring, but also guiding the family as a whole on many related aspects. COVID family care is one of the cornerstones of the pandemic, and can present with unique challenges, differential symptomatology and clinical course, and multifaceted problems to the physician. Apart from treating the disease itself, the physician’s expanded role also involves advising the family on holistic health and well-being, isolation and household hygiene, available support services, along with stress management and psychological counseling. Sharing of insights and learnings from such situations can add value towards a more effective approach to COVID family care.

scholarly journals The Offspring Absence Factor Divorce Runs in the Family (Case Study at the Religious Court Medan in 2020)

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-80
Author(s):  
M Rizal ◽  
Fathul Djannah
Keyword(s):  
Married Couple ◽  
Family Relationship ◽  
The Family ◽  
Family Case ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Family Case Study ◽  
Husband And Wife

Divorce is the end of a marriage. Divorce is a break in the relationship between husband and wife. Every married couple must have their ways to prevent a divorce from happening. Divorce is always based on quarrels between husband and wife. This is the reason that a dispute between husband and wife occurs because one of the parties wants a divorce, therefore the family relationship is not harmonious. Offspring who are not present in the household is very important, apart from being the successor of the heir, children are also the goal of a harmonious household, especially if certain tribes or customs require an offspring to be the successor of the family name. In this case, the applicant and the defendant both did not want to adopt a child, so they decided to divorce at Religious Court Medan

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