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Download full textNick Gibson; Amanda Graf; Tania Beament; Esther Adama; Neil Ferguson; Deborah Kirk; Joyce Muge-Sugutt; Kylie McCullough – Journal of Comparative and International Higher Education, 2024
International students are an important component of the host country and universities bringing economic, social, and community contributions. International students are the most vulnerable students with challenges related to academic expectations, language proficiency, and socio-cultural integration. This study explores the challenges of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, Barriers, Nursing Education
Direct linkBlake, Helen L.; Bennetts Kneebone, Laura; McLeod, Sharynne – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2019
Key drivers for migrants' social integration are education, employment, and skills in the dominant language of the settlement country. Data from Building a New Life in Australia: The Longitudinal Study of Humanitarian Migrants were used to examine migrants' English proficiency and how oral English proficiency facilitated or hindered participation…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Oral Language, Language Proficiency, English (Second Language)
Major, George; Terraschke, Agnes; Major, Emily; Setijadi, Charlotte – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2014
This paper explores the concept of social inclusion from the perspective of recent migrants, from language backgrounds other than English, at work in Australia. We adopt an understanding of social inclusion that acknowledges the importance of economic independence, while also considering migrants' feelings of connectedness at work and their sense…
Descriptors: Work Environment, Social Integration, Language Proficiency, English (Second Language)
Butorac, Donna – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2014
Learning English is an important aspect of post-migration settlement in Australia, and new migrants with beginner to intermediate proficiency are strongly encouraged to attend government-subsidised English language classes. Underpinning the framing and delivery of these classes is a commitment to the discursive construction of Australia as an…
Descriptors: Race, Immigrants, Females, English (Second Language)
Dixon, Sally; Angelo, Denise – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2014
As part of the "Bridging the Language Gap" project undertaken with 86 State and Catholic schools across Queensland, the language competencies of Indigenous students have been found to be "invisible" in several key and self-reinforcing ways in school system data. A proliferation of inaccurate, illogical and incomplete data…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Standard Spoken Usage, Foreign Countries, English
Benzie, Helen Joy – Higher Education Research and Development, 2010
The current concern about low levels of English proficiency among international students who graduate from degree courses--that students' English language skills are not being developed during their higher education experience--reflects negatively on the quality of Australian higher education and its graduates. More careful selection of students…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Social Integration, Negative Attitudes, Language Tests
Spearritt, D.; Colman, J. M. – 1983
This document evaluates the Australian Contingency Program for Refugee Children (mainly from Vietnam, Laos, and Kampuchea), which aimed to assist the children's English language acquisition and enable them to be integrated as soon as possible into regular classrooms. Chapters cover the following topics: (1) a description of the program; (2) areas…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Cultural Background, Cultural Differences, Data Collection
