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024 7 _a10.4324/9781315718361
_2doi
035 _a(OCoLC)958109435
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050 4 _aP115.5.A8
_bA38 2015
082 0 4 _a306.449
_bA244
245 0 0 _aAdult language education and migration :
_bchallenging agendas in policy and practice /
_cedited by James Simpson and Anne Whiteside.
264 1 _aMilton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ;
_aNew York :
_bRoutledge,
_c2015.
300 _a1 online resource (xvi, 272 pages)
505 0 _a1. 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.
520 _a"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"--
_cProvided by publisher.
520 _a"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"--
_cProvided by publisher.
650 0 _aLanguage policy
_zAustralia.
650 0 _aLinguistic minorities
_zAustralia.
650 0 _aAdult education
_zAustralia.
650 0 _aEnglish language
_xStudy and teaching
_xForeign speakers.
650 0 _aLanguage and languages
_xStudy and teaching
_zAustralia.
700 1 _aSimpson, James,
_d1967-
700 1 _aWhiteside, Anne.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_z9780415733595
_w(DLC) 2014040630
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781315718361
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