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"Language Education and Migration provides a lively and critical introduction to policy and practice in language migrant education in a range of countries around the world. Migration has become a contentious issue with the numbers and needs of migrants often outpacing the development of policy and infrastructure. Policies that have been developed have been controversial and hotly contested such as the imposition of language tests for migrants and successive cuts to the funding of language classes for adults.Language Education and Migration:analyses and challenges language policies relating to adult migrants in nine countries examines theoretically-grounded aspects of practice provides a comparative study with separate chapters on policy and practice for each country.This book is essential reading for advanced students and researchers working in the area of language policy and language and migration"-- "Language Education and Migration provides a lively and critical introduction to policy and practice in language migrant education in a range of countries around the world. This book analyses and challenges language policies relating to adult migrants in nine countries, examines theoretically-grounded aspects of practice, and provides a comparative study with separate chapters on policy and practice for each country. This book is essential reading for advanced students and researchers working in the area of language policy and language and migration"--

Adult education --- Language policy --- Linguistic minorities --- English language --- Language and languages --- Study and teaching --- Foreign speakers. --- Foreign languages --- Languages --- Anthropology --- Communication --- Ethnology --- Information theory --- Meaning (Psychology) --- Philology --- Linguistics --- Glottopolitics --- Institutional linguistics --- Language and state --- Languages, National --- Languages, Official --- National languages --- Official languages --- State and language --- Communication policy --- Language planning --- Adults, Education of --- Education of adults --- Education --- Continuing education --- Open learning --- EFL (Language study) --- English as a foreign language --- English as a second language --- English to speakers of other languages --- ESL (Language study) --- ESOL (Language study) --- Teaching English as a second language --- TEFL (Language study) --- TESL (Language study) --- Minority languages --- Minorities --- Sociolinguistics --- Government policy --- Foreign students --- Political aspects --- Germanic languages --- Minoritized languages --- Alan Williams --- Albert Branchadell --- Anne Whiteside --- Australian migration --- adult migrant --- Becky Winstanley --- Capable Parent project --- Catalan --- Dermot Bryers --- Douglas Fleming --- EFL --- ELF --- ESL --- ESOL --- Finnish --- green card English --- Heide Spruck Wrigley --- Heide Wrigley --- Hervé Adami --- Howard Nicholas --- immigration reform --- James Simpson --- Jeanne Kurvers --- John Lyons --- Language and Migration --- Laura Chapman --- LESLLA --- low-literate --- Marguerite Lukes --- Maria Rosa Garrido