Adult Language Education and Migration Challenging agendas in policy and practice

Introduction
James Simpson and Anne Whiteside

1. Shaping Australian policy for Australian adult migrant English language learning
Howard Nicholas

2. Connecting with community: Helping immigrant low literacy ESL learners in local contexts
Laura Chapman and Alan Williams

3. French language education policy for adult migrants in Québec
Paula Bouffard

4. Justice-oriented citizenship in Canadian ESL classes: The views of experienced teachers
Douglas Fleming

5. Language education for adult migrants in Catalonia: Nation-state ambitions without nation-state resources
Albert Branchadell

6. A multilingual, collaborative and functional approach to nongovernment Catalan classes
Maria Rosa Garrido and Xavier Oliva

7. Integration policies and adult second language learning in Finland
Sari Pöyhönen and Mirja Tarnanen

8. A Capable Parent project - stay-at-home mothers learning Finnish
Minna Intke-Hernandez

9. Language training for adult migrants in France: History, policies and institutions
Hervé Adami

10. Plurilingual literacy practices in a creative writing workshop with adult second language learners
Noëlle Mathis

11. English, everywhere and nowhere: ESOL policies in Ireland
Vera Sheridan

12. Getting to grips with the English language
Sandra Doyle

13. The shifting landscape of Dutch integration policy: From L1 literacy teaching to literacy in Dutch as entrance criterion
Jeanne Kurvers and Massimiliano Spotti

14. ICT-based applications for civic integration in The Netherlands: Policy drivers and limits in practice
Massimiliano Spotti and Jeanne Kurvers

15. English language learning for adult migrants in superdiverse Britain
James Simpson

16. Whose Integration? A participatory ESOL project in the UK
Melanie Cooke, Becky Winstanley, and Dermot Bryers

17. Green Card English: New possibilities and enduring challenges In US immigration reform
Heide Wrigley

18. Educational programming for low-literate adult migrants in the US
Marguerite Lukes and John Lyons

Afterword
Marilyn Martin-Jones

Index

Biography

James Simpson is a senior lecturer in language education at the School of Education, University of Leeds, UK.

Anne Whiteside is a lecturer in a Masters in TESOL program at San Francisco State University.

"Language education for migrants is of critical importance for the promotion of individual life chances and community development. The eighteen substantive chapters in this volume, together with the thoughtful Introduction and Afterword, provide expert accounts of policy dispositions and realities on the ground. This book is a must for anyone interested in language education, language policy and social integration."
Constant Leung, King’s College London, UK

 

"Adult Language Education and Migration brings together an unprecedented collection of chapters from nine different countries with very unique political and policy backdrops. Readers will find wisdom, optimism, innovation, complexity, and a fresh critical eye among the chapters of this book. Simpson and Whiteside have given us a must-read for educators and researchers working in the dynamic and politically shifting spaces in which adult language learning and migration intersect."
Martha Bigelow, University of Minnesota, USA