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Adult language education and migration : challenging agendas in policy and practice / / edited by James Simpson and Anne Whiteside



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Autore: Simpson James Visualizza persona
Titolo: Adult language education and migration : challenging agendas in policy and practice / / edited by James Simpson and Anne Whiteside Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Taylor & Francis, 2015
Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2015
Edizione: 1 ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (291 p.)
Disciplina: 306.44/9
306.449
Soggetto topico: Adult education - English speaking-countries
Language policy - English speaking-countries
Linguistic minorities - English speaking-countries
English language - Study and teaching - Foreign speakers
Language and languages - Study and teaching - English speaking-countries
Soggetto non controllato: Alan Williams
Albert Branchadell
Anne Whiteside
Australian migration
adult migrant
Becky Winstanley
Capable Parent project
Catalan
Dermot Bryers
Douglas Fleming
EFL
ELF
ESL
ESOL
Finnish
green card English
Heide Spruck Wrigley
Heide Wrigley
Hervé Adami
Howard Nicholas
immigration reform
James Simpson
Jeanne Kurvers
John Lyons
Language and Migration
Laura Chapman
LESLLA
low-literate
Marguerite Lukes
Maria Rosa Garrido
Classificazione: EDU005000EDU034000LAN000000
Altri autori: SimpsonJames <1967->  
WhitesideAnne  
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
Nota di contenuto: ""Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""List of illustrations""; ""Notes on contributors""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Introduction""; ""1 Shaping Australian policy for Australian adult migrant English language learning""; ""2 Connecting with community: helping immigrant low literacy ESL learners in local contexts""; ""3 French language education policy for adult immigrants in Quebec""; ""4 Justice-oriented citizenship in Canadian ESL classes: the views of experienced teachers""
""5 Language education for adult migrants in Catalonia: nation-state ambitions without nation-state resources""""6 A multilingual, collaborative and functional approach to nongovernmental Catalan classes""; ""7 Integration policies and adult second language learning in Finland""; ""8 Stay-at-home mothers learning Finnish""; ""9 Language training for adult migrants in France: history, policies and institutions""; ""10 Plurilingual literacy practices in a creative writing workshop with adult second language learners""; ""11 English, everywhere and nowhere: ESOL policies in Ireland""
""12 Getting to grips with the English language""""13 The shifting landscape of Dutch integration policy: from L1 literacy teaching to literacy in Dutch as entrance criterion to the Netherlands""; ""14 ICT-based applications for civic integration in the Netherlands: policy drivers and limits in practice""; ""15 English language learning for adult migrants in superdiverse Britain""; ""16 Whose integration? A participatory ESOL project in the UK""; ""17 Green Card English: new possibilities and enduring challenges in US immigration reform""
""18 Educational programming for low-literate adult migrants in the US""""Afterword""; ""Index""
Sommario/riassunto: "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"--
Titolo autorizzato: Adult language education and migration  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-317-51276-6
1-317-51277-4
0-415-73360-X
1-315-71836-7
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910545198703321
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