Adult Language Education and Migration Challenging agendas in policy and practice

• Other Authors: Simpson, James (Editor), Whiteside, Anne (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Taylor & Francis 2015
• Subjects: Education; Educational strategies & policy; linguistics; 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
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Summary

Adult Language Education and Migration: Challenging Agendas in Policy and Practice provides a lively and critical examination of policy and practice in language education for adult migrants around the world, showing how opportunities for learning the language of a new country both shape and are shaped by policy moves. Language policies for migrants are often controversial and hotly contested, but at the same time innovative teaching practices are emerging in response to the language learning needs of today's mobile populations. This book: analyses and challenges language education policies relating to adult migrants in nine countries; provides a comparative study with separate chapters on policy and practice in each country; focuses on Australia, Canada, Spain (Catalonia), Finland, France, Ireland, the Netherlands, the UK and the US. Adult Language Education and Migration is essential reading for practitioners, students and researchers working in the area of language education in migration contexts.

Physical Description

1 electronic resource (290 p.)

ISBN

9781315718361
9781317512776
9780415733601
9780415733595

Access

Open Access