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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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Ee, Jongyeon – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2023
This study concerns integration in a two-way dual language immersion (DLI) context. Specifically, the present study examines parents of students in Korean-English DLI programs with the intent to understand the extent of their satisfaction with their child's ability to get along with children of different cultures and languages. This study also…
Descriptors: Satisfaction, Parent Attitudes, Immersion Programs, Bilingual Education Programs
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Maria Dolores Castrillo; Beatriz Sedano – CALICO Journal, 2021
The expansion of MOOCs (massive open online courses) is very much associated with instructors interested in the craft of teaching, innovating, and experimenting with different methods to improve and expand students' learning experience. The Erasmus+ project MOONLITE has worked to create cross-institutional scenarios and new educational pathways…
Descriptors: Social Integration, Online Courses, Refugees, Migrants
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Anna Tissot; Giuseppe Pietrantuono; Nina Rother; Andreea Baier; Johannes Croisier – Educational Linguistics, 2022
In this chapter, we address the process of German language acquisition of adult refugees within the formal setting of the integration course, in order to identify factors contributing to both the likelihood of attending a course and successfully completing it. We used a mixed-method approach, analysing the dataset of the IAB-BAMF-SOEP refugee…
Descriptors: German, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Adults
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Judith Yoel – Educational Linguistics, 2021
This research examines the dominant language constellations (DLC) of multilingual, immigrant teacher trainees in Israel. The seven participants in this study from the Former Soviet Union (FSU) have resided in Israel for 2-4 years. This qualitative research, conducted through a narrative method, reveals that while they possess different language…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Hebrew
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Siv, Sreypov; Kim, Myonghee – English Teaching, 2019
The number of multicultural families has been increasing in Korea recently, and it is reported that students from multicultural family experience multiple struggles in English learning. With an awareness of mothers' role in child's education, this study aims to investigate multicultural family mothers' perception of English education and the…
Descriptors: Mother Attitudes, Multicultural Education, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Jeanneau, Catherine; O'Riordan, Stéphanie – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2020
Fostering skills development is one of the tenets of education. For a long time, the traditional binary teacher-student interaction was used as the sole approach to teaching and learning but it is now overwhelmingly regarded as insufficient. The present paper reports on an initiative based on the principles of peer learning. The discussion groups…
Descriptors: International Education, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Cultural Awareness
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Wallen, Matthew; Kelly-Holmes, Helen – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2017
This study endeavoured to awaken mainstream teachers' awareness of language, specifically related to teaching emergent bilingual children who are learning English as an additional language (EAL) in the Republic of Ireland. Because EAL learners spend the majority of the day in the mainstream classroom, mainstream teachers' language awareness may…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Metalinguistics
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Castaño Muñoz, Jonatan; Colucci, Elizabeth; Smidt, Hanne – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2018
The increasing number of migrants and refugees arriving in Europe places new demands on European education systems. In this context, the role that free digital learning (FDL) could play in fostering inclusion has attracted renewed interest. While the existing literature highlights some general design principles for developing FDL for migrants and…
Descriptors: Refugees, Immigrants, Educational Technology, Qualitative Research
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Court, Jill – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2017
This paper describes a small-scale study conducted in England with a group of adult migrant and refugee ESOL learners. The study explores how participants conceptualised integration, and their perceptions of the relationship between learning English and integration. The findings highlight that the extent to which a person feels integrated, for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Experience, Student Attitudes, Migrants
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Vinther, Jane; Slethaug, Gordon – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2015
Increasingly students want to go abroad to study--to further their knowledge of English, experience a new culture and cultivate skills. Universities have been actively courting these students, sometimes without regard to their impact on responsibilities of heads of department, secretaries and support staff. Much is written on the intercultural…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, College Faculty
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Dudley, Lesley – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2007
For immigrants, the acquisition of language, specifically the ability to communicate effectively, is one prerequisite of full integration into the host society. For an adult immigrant second language (L2) learner in Canada, access to opportunities that may enhance communicative ability are often limited to the ESL classroom. However, while…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Enrichment, Social Integration, Second Language Learning