Adult Language Education and Migration

Adult Language Education and Migration provides a lively and critical examination of policy and practice in language education for adult migrants around the world. This book analyses and challenges language education policies relating to adult migrants in Australia, Canada, Spain (Catalonia), Finland, France, Ireland, the Netherlands, the UK and the US, and provides a comparative study with separate chapters on policy and practice in each country. Adult Language Education and Migration is essential reading for practitioners, students and researchers working in the area of language education in migration contexts.

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.

Introduction 1. Shaping Australian policy for Australian adult migrant English language learning 2. Connecting with community: Helping immigrant low literacy ESL learners in local contexts 3. French language education policy for adult migrants in Québec 4. Justice-oriented citizenship in Canadian ESL classes: The views of experienced teachers 5. Language education for adult migrants in Catalonia: Nation-state ambitions without nation-state resources 6. A multilingual, collaborative and functional approach to nongovernment Catalan classes 7. Integration policies and adult second language learning in Finland 8. A Capable Parent project - stay-at-home mothers learning Finnish 9. Language training for adult migrants in France: History, policies and institutions 10. Plurilingual literacy practices in a creative writing workshop with adult second language learners 11. English, everywhere and nowhere: ESOL policies in Ireland 12. Getting to grips with the English language 13. The shifting landscape of Dutch integration policy: From L1 literacy teaching to literacy in Dutch as entrance criterion 14. ICT-based applications for civic integration in The Netherlands: Policy drivers and limits in practice 15. English language learning for adult migrants in superdiverse Britain 16. Whose Integration? A participatory ESOL project in the UK 17. Green Card English: New possibilities and enduring challenges In US immigration reform 18. Educational programming for low-literate adult migrants in the US Afterword Index