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Katherine Rehner; John Ippolito; Ivan Lasan; Gabrielle Forget; Claire Gouveia; Sarah Jones; Yifan Liu – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2025
This study explores adult migrants' formal and informal opportunities for learning their host country's dominant language: specifically, the availability, accessibility, and effects of these opportunities on the migrants' social integration. It prioritizes the migrants' experience by reporting findings obtained from analyses of questionnaire data…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Migrants, Adults, Informal Education
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Ingela Holmström – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2025
Upon arrival in Sweden, adult migrants are required to learn Swedish at the earliest opportunity. This requirement also extends to deaf migrants, regardless of their linguistic and educational backgrounds. This paper presents findings and experiences derived from a project focused on the multilingual situation of deaf migrants in Sweden. Some deaf…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adults, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Jihyun Kim – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2024
This study aimed to understand the factors that deter immigrants from participating in Korean language programs in South Korea by finding the underlying structure of the deterrents. A new instrument with 39 items that measures adult immigrants' deterrents to participation in Korean language programs was developed. In total, 267 responses were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Korean, Second Language Learning, Barriers
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Yali Zhang – International Journal of Web-Based Learning and Teaching Technologies, 2024
The internet and informatization have brought a great impact on English classrooms in ecologically fragile areas, bringing convenience to the teaching of some colleges and universities, but also negatively affecting some colleges and universities in ecologically fragile areas that still use traditional lecture-style classroom teaching methods. The…
Descriptors: College Students, Second Language Learning, English Language Learners, Ecology
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Irmelin Kjelaas – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2024
This study investigates school segregation for newly arrived adolescent students (aged 16-22) in Norway. Based on an interview study in two Norwegian adult education establishments and drawing on a sociocultural framework, the article highlights the students' experiences with and perceptions of school segregation. More specifically, it analyzes…
Descriptors: Immigrants, School Segregation, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Aida Layachi; Graeme Douglas; Maria Reraki – Educational Psychology in Practice, 2024
This paper explores the impact of a drama-based intervention on the social inclusion of middle school learners including some with ADHD in Algeria. The intervention included drama-based activities and was delivered over a period of six weeks (24 sessions). One second-year middle school classroom (n = 29), including students with ADHD (n = 3), was…
Descriptors: Intervention, Inclusion, Social Integration, Middle School Students
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Anita Hartikainen; Marja Ahola; Erkki Sutinen – International Journal of Technology in Education, 2024
In the online implementation of immigrant integration training, there are areas that receive limited attention in the pedagogical studies of Finnish language and literature subject teachers. Using the Design Science Research method, an artifact of socially significant online integration training is studied. By participating in the evaluation and…
Descriptors: Finno Ugric Languages, Immigrants, Student Teachers, Program Design
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Kaatje Dalderop – AILA Review, 2024
The study focuses on the language learning experiences of adult migrants from refugee backgrounds with limited educational experiences before migration. This group is often referred to as LESLLA learners; LESLLA is an acronym for Literacy Education and Second Language Learning for Adults. The study used Constructivist Grounded Theory (CGT) -- a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Arabs, Refugees, Adults
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Robert Hanks; Mark Turin; H. Henny Yeung – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2024
Many newcomers to Canada experience significant difficulties adjusting to life in their new community, with few more challenging than learning English. While Canada's Language Instruction for Newcomers to Canada (LINC) program suggests a pathway to social integration, ideologies pertaining to language and diversity that inform the LINC program can…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immigrants, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Alessandra Aldrovandi; Mira Kalalahti; Åsa Sundelin – Nordic Journal of Studies in Educational Policy, 2024
Career guidance and counselling (CGC) plays an important role in the 'egalitarian tradition' of the Nordic countries' perspective of education, since it aims to support all students in developing skills and knowledge to access further education and the labour market. Inspired by the critical institutionalism approach and focusing on education…
Descriptors: Coping, Career Guidance, Career Counseling, Immigrants
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Kashif Raza; Catherine Chua – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Despite recognising multilingualism as a reality and multilingual workforce as an advantage, language policies continue to favour certain languages over others. Using a case study of Canada's language-in-immigration policy related to three federally administered immigration programs, this study is an attempt to understand how the macro-level…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immigrants, Immigration, Skilled Workers
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Nguyen Quang Linh; Nguyen Thi Thu Hang – Journal of Education and e-Learning Research, 2024
This study investigates the cultural and language barriers faced by Lao students at Vietnamese universities of education and proposes solutions for enhancing their academic and social integration. We analyzed the experiences of 624 Lao students across eight major universities in Vietnam through online surveys and in-depth interviews employing a…
Descriptors: Vietnamese, Laotians, Second Language Learning, Barriers
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Farrukh Amina; Melissa M. Barnes; Eisuke Saito – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Schools, globally, have experienced an influx of culturally and linguistically diverse students, due to voluntary migration and forced displacement. To respond to the needs of these students, particularly those from refugee backgrounds, schools must understand how these students navigate their pathways to membership and belonging within their new…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Social Integration
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Ali Elhami; Anita Roshan – Intercultural Education, 2024
Muslims may not experience integration or assimilation in European countries, as they have certain values regarding hijab, eating restrictions, and lifestyle. They may therefore face more challenges than other migrants. With the insight that religiosity may have an impact on migrants' national and/or ethnic identities, we look at the role of…
Descriptors: Religion, Immigrants, Ethnicity, Self Concept
Hasan Alshuhri – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study explored the language ideologies of Saudi cosmopolitan parents living in Western countries, their family language policies, and their children's reintegration into Saudi society. I used a qualitative research design to investigate the process of family language policies and practices and the underlying social, cultural, and religious…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Arabs, Parent Attitudes, Language Usage
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