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Conceptions of Literacy in Canadian Immigrant Language Training
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Cray, Ellen; Currie, Pat – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2004
For immigrants and refugees, access to a national or majority language is an important issue. According to its immigrant language training policy, Canada offers its newcomers language instruction for the purposes of settlement and integration. One important aspect of settlement and integration involves literacy. Our study examined the concept of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immigrants, Refugees, Second Language Learning