Full Description
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.
Contents
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 migrants in Québec
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 nongovernment Catalan classes
7. Integration policies and adult second language learning in Finland
8. A Capable Parent project - 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
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
