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Adult Language Education and Migration

Challenging agendas in policy and practice

Anne (San Francisco State University, USA) Whiteside & James (University of Leeds, UK) Simpson

Adult Language Education and Migration

Adult Language Education and Migration

Challenging agendas in policy and practice

Adult Language Education 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 innine countries, examines theoretically-grounded aspects of practice, and provides a comparative study with separate chapters on policy and practice for each country.


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Beschrijving Adult Language Education and Migration

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.


ISBN
9780415733601
Pagina's
272
Verschenen
NUR
846
Druk
1
Uitvoering
Paperback / softback
Taal
Engels
Uitgever
Taylor & Francis Ltd