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Katherine Rehner; John Ippolito; Ivan Lasan; Gabrielle Forget; Claire Gouveia; Sarah Jones; Yifan Liu – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2025
This study explores adult migrants' formal and informal opportunities for learning their host country's dominant language: specifically, the availability, accessibility, and effects of these opportunities on the migrants' social integration. It prioritizes the migrants' experience by reporting findings obtained from analyses of questionnaire data…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Migrants, Adults, Informal Education
Kubota, Hiroko; Raymond, Heather; Caine, Vera; Clandinin, D. Jean – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2022
While refugees are part of patterns of global migration, their ordinary lives remain obscured. In a narrative inquiry into the lives of Syrian refugee families who came to Canada within the past 4 years, we focused on their experiences of belonging, agency, and identity as part of social inclusion. The main focus was the lives of young children…
Descriptors: Social Integration, Experience, Refugees, Young Children
Robert Hanks; Mark Turin; H. Henny Yeung – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2024
Many newcomers to Canada experience significant difficulties adjusting to life in their new community, with few more challenging than learning English. While Canada's Language Instruction for Newcomers to Canada (LINC) program suggests a pathway to social integration, ideologies pertaining to language and diversity that inform the LINC program can…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immigrants, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Kashif Raza; Catherine Chua – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Despite recognising multilingualism as a reality and multilingual workforce as an advantage, language policies continue to favour certain languages over others. Using a case study of Canada's language-in-immigration policy related to three federally administered immigration programs, this study is an attempt to understand how the macro-level…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immigrants, Immigration, Skilled Workers
Sandra G. Kouritzin; Satoru Nakagawa; Taylor F. Ellis – TESL Canada Journal, 2024
In this re-examination of empirical data sets, we reconceptualize, from the perspectives of numerous stakeholders, the limits of identity positions available to immigrant adolescents who enter schools in immigrant-receiving schools and neighbourhoods already experiencing racism, intergenerational poverty, lack of social, economic, and cultural…
Descriptors: Barriers, Neoliberalism, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Zagrebina, Anna – Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education, 2022
The meanings and effects of government-funded language training programs is an important research subject because it concerns possible prejudices against immigrants and negative stereotypes as well as discussions on the effectiveness of immigrant integration policies in general. The effects of civic integration programs are difficult to measure,…
Descriptors: Socialization, Social Integration, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Amireault, Valérie – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2020
This study explores the perceptions of integration and cultural identity redefinitions expressed by Chinese adult learners of French as a second language (FSL) in Quebec (Canada). We present their reflections from their perspective of learning and using French, Quebec's main language. Interviews were conducted in French with 15 newly-arrived…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, French
Palova, Katerina; Pagtalunan, Amielle; Rahal, Louai; Kassan, Anusha – Canadian Journal of School Psychology, 2023
This literature review explores the integration experiences of francophone newcomer students in anglophone provinces in Canada. It outlines scholarly findings regarding factors that impact the integration of newcomer students into French public-school systems in predominantly English provinces. We identified two themes related to the integration…
Descriptors: Social Integration, Immigrants, French Canadians, School Psychology
Barker, Marianne – Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics / Revue canadienne de linguistique appliquée, 2021
The Canadian government implemented the Language Instruction for Newcomers to Canada (LINC) program to help immigrants integrate into Canada. However, research indicates that the LINC program fails to achieve its integrative goals. Using Fairclough's analytical concepts of genre, discourse and style, this article closely examines a unit of LINC…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Lesson Plans, Social Integration, English (Second Language)
Waterhouse, Monica – Language and Education, 2021
This article describes research exploring the potential of arts-based, affective pedagogy to enact the dual mandate of second language programs for adult newcomers to Canada: facilitating official language learning and social integration. Deleuze-Guattarian affect theory informs the study framing both research and pedagogical practices as effects…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Busko, Mariia; Huk, Liudmyla; Kuzan, Halyna; Vilkhovchenko, Nadiia – Advanced Education, 2019
The article deals with the research of special features of foreigners' integration and language learning in Canada as an integral part of adult education. The paper outlines a complex of basic scientific approaches such as system, structural and functional, andragogical, axiological, intercultural, and competency-based approaches. The study…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Ukrainian, English (Second Language)
Adamuti-Trache, Maria; Anisef, Paul; Sweet, Robert – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2018
Immigrant women to Canada face unique challenges in gaining mastery of English or French, the country's two official languages. The study focuses on differences "among women" with respect to pre-migration and post-migration characteristics that position them differently with respect to language learning in the social contexts where they…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Learning Strategies, Immigrants, Longitudinal Studies
Ge, Lin; Brown, Douglas; Durst, Douglas – Journal of International Students, 2019
This study employs ethnographic inquiry to present the lived experiences of Chinese international students while attending the University of Regina in Saskatchewan, Canada. The findings display the transformative experiences of this group, including language acquisition, academic and social challenges, and the strategies by which the cultural…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Foreign Students, Educational Experience, Asians
Choi, Jinyoung; Ziegler, Gudrun – Multilingual Education, 2015
Mastery of literacy skills in the language(s) of the host country is considered a key element for the successful integration of immigrants. The current paper focuses on possibly one of the most challenging aspects of the issues of linguistic integration of immigrants, i.e., literacy acquisition by "low-literate" adult immigrants in a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immigrants, Social Integration, Literacy Education
Man Chu Lau, Sunny; Brosseau, Marie-Claude; Maegerlein, Elisabeth; LeRisbé, Michèle; Blandford, Melissa – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2020
This article describes a collaborative research project with four Quebec college teachers offering French and ESL classes designed to support immigrant students' bilingual learning. Using action research, a professional learning community was created that allowed the researcher and teacher participants, through cycles of planning, action, and…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Social Integration, French, English (Second Language)