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.
Table of Contents
Introduction
James Simpson and Anne Whiteside
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 migrants in Québec
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 nongovernment Catalan classes
Maria Rosa Garrido and Xavier Oliva
7. Integration policies and adult second language learning in Finland
Sari Pöyhönen and Mirja Tarnanen
8. A Capable Parent project - stay-at-home mothers learning Finnish
Minna Intke-Hernandez
9. Language training for adult migrants in France: History, policies and institutions
Hervé Adami
10. Plurilingual literacy practices in a creative writing workshop with adult second language learners
Noëlle 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
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 Wrigley
18. Educational programming for low-literate adult migrants in the US
Marguerite Lukes and John Lyons
Afterword
Marilyn Martin-Jones
Index
