Adult language education and migration : challenging agendas in policy and practice / edited by James Simpson and Anne Whiteside. - 1 online resource (xvi, 272 pages)

1. Shaping Australian policy for Australian adult migrant English language learning / Howard Nicholas -- 2. Connecting with community : helping immigrant low literacy ESL learners in local contexts / Laura Chapman and Alan Williams -- 3. French language education policy for adult immigrants in Quebec / Paula Bouffard -- 4. Justice-oriented citizenship in Canadian ESL classes : the views of experienced teachers / Douglas Fleming -- 5. Language education for adult migrants in Catalonia : nation-state ambitions without nation-state resources / Albert Branchadell -- 6. A multilingual, collaborative and functional approach to nongovernmental Catalan classes / Maria Rosa Garrido and Xavier Oliva -- 7. Integration policies and adult second language learning in Finland / Sari Poyhonen and Mirja Tarnanen -- 8. Stay-at-home mothers learning Finnish / Minna Intke-Hernandez -- 9. Language training for adult migrants in France : history, policies and institutions / Herve Adami -- 10. Plurilingual literacy practices in a creative writing workshop with adult second language learners / Noelle Mathis -- 11. English, everywhere and nowhere : ESOL policies in Ireland / Vera Sheridan -- 12. Getting to grips with the English language / Sandra Doyle -- 13. The shifting landscape of Dutch integration policy : from L1 literacy teaching to literacy in Dutch as entrance criterion to the Netherlands / Jeanne Kurvers and Massimiliano Spotti -- 14. ICT-based applications for civic integration in the Netherlands : policy drivers and limits in practice / Massimiliano Spotti and Jeanne Kurvers -- 15. English language learning for adult migrants in superdiverse Britain / James Simpson -- 16. Whose integration? A participatory ESOL project in the UK / Melanie Cooke, Becky Winstanley and Dermot Bryers -- 17. Green card English : new possibilities and enduring challenges in US immigration reform / Heide Spruck Wrigley -- 18. Educational programming for low-literate adult migrants in the US / Marguerite Lukes and John Lyons.

"Language Education and Migration provides a lively and critical introduction to policy and practice in language migrant education in a range of countries around the world. Migration has become a contentious issue with the numbers and needs of migrants often outpacing the development of policy and infrastructure. Policies that have been developed have been controversial and hotly contested such as the imposition of language tests for migrants and successive cuts to the funding of language classes for adults.Language Education and Migration:analyses and challenges language policies relating to adult migrants in nine countries examines theoretically-grounded aspects of practice provides a comparative study with separate chapters on policy and practice for each country.This book is essential reading for advanced students and researchers working in the area of language policy and language and migration"-- "Language Education and Migration provides a lively and critical introduction to policy and practice in language migrant education in a range of countries around the world. This book analyses and challenges language policies relating to adult migrants in nine countries, examines theoretically-grounded aspects of practice, and provides a comparative study with separate chapters on policy and practice for each country. This book is essential reading for advanced students and researchers working in the area of language policy and language and migration"--

9781315718361 9781317512752 9781317512769

10.4324/9781315718361 doi


Language policy--Australia.
Linguistic minorities--Australia.
Adult education--Australia.
English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers.
Language and languages--Study and teaching--Australia.

P115.5.A8 / A38 2015

306.449 / A244

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