Protocol: Feasibility study and pilot randomised trial of a multilingual support intervention to improve Norwegian language skills for adult refugees

• Published in: International journal of educational research 2022, Vol.112, p.101925, Article 101925
• Main Authors: Tøge, Anne Grete, Malmberg-Heimonen, Ira, Søholt, Susanne, Vilhjalmsdottir, Sigridur
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• ISSN: 0883-0355; 1873-538X
• DOI: 10.1016/j.ijer.2022.101925

•This protocol is for a pilot trial of a multilingual support intervention.•Assistants are using the refugees’ primary languages to support their learning.•The pilot is designed as a randomised controlled trial (RCT), with ca. 90 refugees.•The aim is to assess whether and how a full-scale RCT should be designed. This protocol is for a feasibility study and pilot trial of a multilingual support intervention. The intervention's aim is to improve language training for refugees in Norway by introducing multilingual support assistants using the refugees’ primary languages. The research question for this pilot study is whether a full-scale randomised controlled trial of Multilingual Support is feasible, and if so, in what way. The pilot trial will have two arms, with two-thirds allocated to the treatment group, receiving seven teaching sessions of support per week from assistants who are proficient in the participants’ primary language. The control group will receive the same amount of support but from an assistant without competence in the participants’ primary language.