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Jang, Jinsil – TESL-EJ, 2022
With the increase in linguistic and cultural diversity in South Korea, the landscape of English education in Korean classrooms has been changing. This has led to an increased need to explore the language and literacy practices of the emergent multilingual youth in Korea where one (official) language (Korean) has been predominantly used as the…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Cultural Pluralism, Multilingualism, English (Second Language)
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Allan, Kori – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2016
This article traces how a language and soft skills training approach to Canadian immigrant integration emerged with Canada's shift towards a post-industrial tertiary economy. In this economy, soft skills index characteristics of ideal workers that fit the needs of Canada's post-Fordist labour regime. It examines how skills' training is not viewed…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Immigrants, Social Integration, Communication Skills
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Chen, Ping – Chinese Education & Society, 2016
The history and current state of Chinese teaching in Australia has largely been determined by two key factors: first, the country's policy on languages, and in particular its policy regarding foreign language education; and second, its immigrants and overseas students from Chinese-speaking countries and regions. Beginning in the 1980s, Chinese…
Descriptors: Chinese, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
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de Zarobe, Yolanda Ruiz – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2013
Since Do Coyle and Hugo Baetens Beardsmore published their Special Issue on "Research on Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL)" in the "International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism" in 2007, there has been a great deal of interest and debate about the approach, which under the umbrella term of Content…
Descriptors: Stakeholders, Teaching Methods, Bilingual Education, Foreign Countries
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Prasad, Gail – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2012
Four out of five immigrants to Canada speak a language other than English or French as a first language. Immigration is increasingly transforming francophone minority communities. Allophone children acquire minority status on multiple levels within French-language schools, where they can become both a linguistic minority and a cultural minority…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Official Languages, Cultural Pluralism, Foreign Countries
Wei, Li, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
"The Routledge Applied Linguistics Reader" is an essential collection of readings for students of Applied Linguistics. Divided into five sections: Language Teaching and Learning, Second Language Acquisition, Applied Linguistics, Identity and Power and Language Use in Professional Contexts, the "Reader" takes a broad…
Descriptors: World Problems, Discourse Communities, Creativity, Applied Linguistics
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Porter, Rosalie Pedalino – READ Perspectives, 1996
Presents a comprehensive report of material collected over five years for advocating to improve the education of language minority children. The essay argues that the attempts to help immigrant schoolchildren deficient in English are misguided in the assumption that these children cannot learn English quickly and must be taught academic subjects…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Change Agents, Court Litigation, Data Analysis