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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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Yueh-ching Chang – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2024
With the rise in the number of international students (ISs) in many Asian universities, some recent research has investigated ISs' linguacultural experience in the new Asian educational hubs. Current research has shown that while English is used as the de facto academic lingua franca in many of these hubs, the local language of the host nation…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Study Abroad, Foreign Students, Student Attitudes
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Gkougkoura, Christina; Paida, Sevasti; Vitsou, Magdalini; Palaiologou, Nektaria – International Journal of Modern Education Studies, 2022
In recent years, a significant number of students with a multilingual background have attended Greek educational institutions, mainly because of migration and the refugee crisis. In March 2020, due to the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19), Greek educational institutions started organizing emergency remote teaching on online educational platforms. This…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Distance Education, COVID-19, Pandemics
Maria Eugenia Rojas Concha – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The scholarship on school privatization and market-oriented reforms has demonstrated the negative effects on segregation and inequity triggered by this model, not only in Chile but globally. Less is known about how to transition toward a democratic-oriented education approach after decades of embedding the values rooted in a competition-based…
Descriptors: Privatization, Neoliberalism, School Segregation, Educational Change
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Troyan, Francis John; Auger, Nathalie – Language and Education, 2023
This case study investigated the practiced language policies of a French elementary school educator, Catherine, as she implemented the French National Cycle of instruction for the early elementary grades with a culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) class of students. The findings revealed that macro-level policies--such as curriculum and…
Descriptors: Case Studies, French, Second Language Learning, Elementary School Teachers
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El Masry, Taghreed; Alzaanin, Eman I. – Arab World English Journal, 2021
This study aims to explore how English as a Second Language ESL Pre-Service Teachers (PSTs) employ adaptation strategies in response to the surrounding constraining context to develop their professional identities. The research question is "How do pre-service teachers (PSTs) employ adaptation strategies to develop their professional identity…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Carloni, Giovanna; Sisti, Flora – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2018
The study of inclusion models has regained attention in light of recent migratory phenomena. In this context, research in the area of second language (L2) teaching methodologies occupies a central role because it examines the most effective teaching approaches to promote the learning of a language that will be instrumental in the inclusion of the…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Wang, Min – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2020
Informed by the theory of identity in practice, this study examined an immigrant student's (Yulia's) language learning experience. A narrative analysis of Yulia's personal stories reveals that her perceived identities as an intelligent, different, and special multilingual speaker have isolated her from her communities. She desperately tried to fit…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Personal Narratives, Self Concept, Resilience (Psychology)
Okpala, Florence – ProQuest LLC, 2018
In an increasing globally diverse society, international students enroll in American colleges and universities in unprecedented numbers. International students encounter lots of challenges as they adjust to student life in U.S. colleges and universities. While previous research has addressed these challenges with some student groups, limited…
Descriptors: Educational Experience, Foreign Students, Undergraduate Students, Student Adjustment
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Spotti, Massimiliano; Kroon, Sjaak; Li, Jinling – Language Policy, 2019
This paper explores the intersection of new speakers in conditions of globalisation led mobility and it investigates the implications the phenomena may have for language policy making. It first describes two historical phases in language policy development that are closely related to a sociolinguistics of stability. In this, it criticises how…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Planning, Mandarin Chinese, Indo European Languages
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Bailey, Adrian J.; Mupakati, Liberty; Magunha, Farai M. – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2017
While skilled migrants make influential contributions to development through remitting cash and exchanging knowledge, we argue for greater scrutiny of the role of language in the so-called "migration-development nexus". Noting the transnational context within which the everyday life of many migrants proceeds, we develop a broader reading…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Intercultural Communication, Language Usage, Cultural Awareness
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Guo, Shibao – Studies in the Education of Adults, 2017
This study explores adult education programmes under the auspices of multiculturalism at a Chinese cultural centre in Canada in helping immigrants with their cultural development and integration in Canadian society. The study employs an exploratory case study approach combining methods of document analysis and personal interviews. The findings…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Immigrants, Cultural Pluralism, Social Integration
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Moore, Ashley R. – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2016
This article presents a case study of an English conversation class organised by a nonpolitical group of lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender (LGBT) people in Japan. The primary aims of this study are to explore what kinds of learning needs these students had and to consider more generally how educators can best meet LGBT students' needs. Using…
Descriptors: Homosexuality, Sexual Orientation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Bailey-Jones, Tsuru L. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The United States has a long history of resettling refuges in the country. Research indicates that refugee students enter the country and ultimately schools with varied educational experiences including little to no formal education, language barriers to learning, and discrimination (Block, Cross, Riggs, & Gibbs, 2014; Dryden-Petersen, 2015;…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Interviews, School Districts, Elementary Secondary Education
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Hoang, Ngoc T. H.; Hamid, M. Obaidul – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2017
As the power of tests lies in their uses, language tests that are used to assess immigration eligibility exercise enormous power. Critical Language Testing calls for exposing the power of tests by examining the intentions of introducing tests and their effects on individuals and society, especially from the perspective of test-takers. This case…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Planning, Language Tests, Testing
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