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Palova, Katerina; Pagtalunan, Amielle; Rahal, Louai; Kassan, Anusha – Canadian Journal of School Psychology, 2023
This literature review explores the integration experiences of francophone newcomer students in anglophone provinces in Canada. It outlines scholarly findings regarding factors that impact the integration of newcomer students into French public-school systems in predominantly English provinces. We identified two themes related to the integration…
Descriptors: Social Integration, Immigrants, French Canadians, School Psychology
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Kacetl, Jaroslav; Klímová, Blanka – Education Sciences, 2021
Foreign language learning in the third age is one of the popular activities among the elderly. The question remains as to how to teach a foreign language to older adults properly. The first objective of this review was to identify suitable pedagogical approaches, teaching methods, or strategies for teaching foreign languages to third-age learners.…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, Older Adults
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Stone, Nicholas – Human Rights Education Review, 2020
The German integration programme teaches language and knowledge about Germany to newcomers and those with migration backgrounds. This article analyses the programme and course content from a human rights education (HRE) perspective to tease out some of the inherent contradiction between teaching 'German values', purported to be one of the…
Descriptors: Orientation, Civil Rights, Immigrants, Foreign Countries
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Jing, Xiaoli; Ghosh, Ratna; Sun, Zhaohui; Liu, Qiang – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2020
Although international students have been a notable research topic in higher education for more than 100 years, to date only one qualitative literature review has been published on the topic. In order to help researchers better understand the intellectual landscape of global research related to international students, we conducted a quantitative…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Journal Articles, Research Reports, Web Sites
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Wong, Mary Shepard – FIRE: Forum for International Research in Education, 2019
This article is a literature review and analysis of the links between social cohesion/peacebuilding and the use of Non-Dominant Languages (NDLs) in education with an application for Myanmar, a country rich in linguistic diversity, rife with political conflict, and in the midst educational reforms. Findings indicate that investment in multilingual…
Descriptors: Peace, Language Planning, Language Minorities, Foreign Countries
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Sellars, Maura; Murphy, Helen – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2018
This research presents a review of the literature around meeting students' learning needs in Australian schools. It is referenced to one group of students with refugee experience who have been in Australian schools for over 15 years; students with a background of oracy from Southern Sudan. The development of psychological health and literacy…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Educational Experience, Teaching Methods, Educational Practices
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Scanlan, Martin; Lopez, Francesca; Lowenhaupt, Rebecca Jane – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
The 2017 AERA Annual Meeting theme emphasizes Achieving the Promise of Equal Educational Opportunity. Amongst the most complex issues facing schools is how to provide such opportunity to refugee populations. This paper presents a narrative synthesis (Popay et al., 2006; Rodgers et al., 2009) of empirical literature describing schools educating…
Descriptors: Refugees, Equal Education, Educational Opportunities, Educational Practices
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Edwards, Catrin Wyn – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2016
This paper analyses the language-in-education policies implemented to integrate international immigrants into the Catalan language community in Vic, Catalonia. It focuses on the Catalan Government's "Languages and Social Cohesion Plan" (LIC) plan, Vic city council's local education plans, which were adopted as part of LIC plan, and the…
Descriptors: Language of Instruction, Educational Policy, Romance Languages, Spanish
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Schumann, John H. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1986
Presents a model of second language acquisition based on the social-psychology of acculturation, including factors in social, affective, personality, cognitive, biological, aptitude, personal, input, and instructional areas. Studies which test this model are reviewed and evaluated. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Acculturation, Affective Objectives, Cognitive Style, Language Aptitude
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Ho, Laura Anderson – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 1998
Compares the 1996 Canadian Language Benchmarks for describing English-language proficiency among second-language-learners with the International Adult Literacy Survey. Points to the potential for aligning the Benchmarks with other systems for describing adult competencies to enable more systematic integration of immigrants' experiences, skills,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Benchmarking, Cultural Pluralism, English (Second Language)
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Vyas, Harshad V. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1992
Presents various approaches that have been used in multicultural education in England. Research on Gujeratis in Britain is used to illustrate the process of theory construction. (12 references) (LT)
Descriptors: Educational Theories, Ethnic Groups, Foreign Countries, Gujarati
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Abu-Rabia, Salim – Educational Psychology: An International Journal of Experimental Educational Psychology, 1995
Reading comprehension experiments suggest that cultural content means little to Arab students reading in a second language (English). The students did just as well or better reading stories with no Arabic content. The study also found significant differences in the learning strategies of male and female Arab students. (MJP)
Descriptors: Acculturation, Arabs, Cultural Background, Cultural Interrelationships