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Evans, Michael; Schneider, Claudia; Arnot, Madeleine; Fisher, Linda; Forbes, Karen; Liu, Yongcan; Welply, Oakleigh – Cambridge University Press, 2020
Given the current context of the experience of migration on schools in England and Europe, and the competing policies and approaches to social integration in schools, there is a need to understand the connection between language development and social integration as a basis for promoting appropriate policies and practices. This volume explores the…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Social Integration, Foreign Countries
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
Sandra G. Kouritzin; Satoru Nakagawa; Taylor F. Ellis – TESL Canada Journal, 2024
In this re-examination of empirical data sets, we reconceptualize, from the perspectives of numerous stakeholders, the limits of identity positions available to immigrant adolescents who enter schools in immigrant-receiving schools and neighbourhoods already experiencing racism, intergenerational poverty, lack of social, economic, and cultural…
Descriptors: Barriers, Neoliberalism, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Hüseyin Sinan Avci; Asim Ari – Anatolian Journal of Education, 2025
This study evaluates the refugee education in Lithuania, focusing on the perspectives of teachers. Employing a qualitative case study approach, semi-structured interviews with 14 teachers were conducted to explore the challenges, strategies, and outcomes related to refugee education. The findings reveal that while Lithuanian schools facilitate…
Descriptors: Refugees, Second Language Learning, Student Adjustment, Cultural Differences
Simpson, James; Hunter, Ann-Marie – Language Policy, 2023
This article is about current policy in the coordination of opportunities for adult migrants in England to learn English. People who move to a different country experience a need to learn the dominant language of their new environment, to support their settlement. A willingness to learn the language is a marker of social inclusion from a political…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Adult Education, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Öbrink Hobzová, Milena – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2021
Sweden has been the target country for migrants and refugees for many decades now. One important tool for the integration of newcomers is the language classes called 'Svenska för invandrare' (Swedish for Immigrants). The aim of this article is to answer how Swedish for Immigrants has developed to respond to changes in attitudes to integration and…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Refugees
Li, Jin Hui; Enemark, Nanna Ramsing – European Educational Research Journal, 2023
This article explores how the development of mother-tongue instruction (MTI) policies in the Danish welfare state have created varying notions of difference and sameness in the schooling of migrant students and how they experience these notions locally in practice. Based on an analysis of MTI's policy history and oral history interviews with…
Descriptors: Native Language Instruction, Social Systems, Immigrants, Educational Policy
Byram, Michael – Language Learning Journal, 2023
The "Common European Framework of Reference for Languages" has been a major influence on language teaching in Europe and beyond and its "Companion Volume" will probably have the same significance. It is important therefore that education professionals understand the underlying concepts, including the conceptualisation of the…
Descriptors: Rating Scales, Self Concept, Language Proficiency, Second Language Instruction
Hooft, Hannelore; Schiepers, Mariet; Vandommele, Goedele – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2021
Many migrants have had few opportunities to develop functional literacy skills, even in their L1. Even so, migration and integration policies in Western host societies often assume literacy skills and fail to consider accommodations for low-literate migrants. Valid, reliable instruments to identify low-literate migrants and policy-oriented…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Language Tests, Immigrants, Native Language
Altinkalp, Irem; Vonkova, Hana; Moore, Angie – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2022
Due to recent unrest around the world, the number of refugees has increased dramatically in the last decade. In order to meet the needs of this population, host countries have had to quickly adapt to provide these refugees with basic needs. One such need is to have quality education for refugee children. The aim of this paper is to compare the…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Refugees, Foreign Countries, Inclusion
Claudia Koehler – Intercultural Education, 2025
This paper revisits and expands upon the findings of the 'Multi-country Partnership to Enhance the Education of Refugee and Asylum-seeking Youth in Europe (PERAE)' initiative, which was launched by the SIRIUS Network in 2016 to address the challenges of integrating refugee youth into European education systems. Amid the significant influx of…
Descriptors: Refugees, Partnerships in Education, Social Integration, Access to Education
Brown, Steve – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2021
This article explores connections between language and the social inclusion of immigrants. It analyses three different models of immigration settlement: assimilation, integration through social capital, and inclusion. It then explores how education - and in particular the teaching of English to Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) - can promote…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Immigrants
Süverdem, F. Büsra – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2022
This article focuses on the family language policy (FLP) of second-generation Turkish immigrant families living in France. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews with 12 families to observe their language ideologies, practices and management strategies. The thematic analysis shows that despite generational differences of parents,…
Descriptors: Family Relationship, Language Usage, Turkish, French
Sullivan, Anna; Tippett, Neil; Manolev, Jamie; Baak, Melanie; Johnson, Bruce – Journal of Education Policy, 2022
This article provides a critical analysis of policies from two education systems that support the education of students from migrant backgrounds. This analysis examines the highly political policy context of multiculturalism to reveal how education systems acquiesce to or resist social and political forces. In making this case, the article…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Immigrants, Political Attitudes, Cultural Pluralism
Sung, Chit Cheung Matthew – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2022
This paper investigates the language ideologies held by a group of international students in an English medium instruction (EMI) university in multilingual Hong Kong. The findings indicate that the participants' beliefs about English extend beyond its role as an instructional medium and encompass its use as a lingua franca and as a means of social…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language of Instruction