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Barbosa, Mariana; Santos, Mafalda; Veiga, Elisa; Martins, Filipe; Ribeiro, Maria Teresa; Faria, Joana – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2021
The Refugee Support Platform (PAR -- Plataforma de Apoio a Refugiados) was created in September 2015 through the establishment of a network of organisations and volunteers from the Portuguese civil society. PAR Families is a program that aims to provide support to refugee families in Portugal. PAR Families model implies that for each family of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Refugees, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Stone, Nicholas – Human Rights Education Review, 2020
The German integration programme teaches language and knowledge about Germany to newcomers and those with migration backgrounds. This article analyses the programme and course content from a human rights education (HRE) perspective to tease out some of the inherent contradiction between teaching 'German values', purported to be one of the…
Descriptors: Orientation, Civil Rights, Immigrants, Foreign Countries
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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)
McHugh, Margie; Doxsee, Catrina – Migration Policy Institute, 2018
For the past 50 years, English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) classes provided through state adult education systems have been the primary means of meeting English acquisition for immigrants and refugees, and, to a limited extent, their integration needs. Yet these systems meet only a fraction of the total need for all adult education…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Adult Education
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Przymus, Steve Daniel – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2016
When educators do not facilitate English language learners' (ELLs) social integration in schools, this can perpetuate ELLs' marginalized status and the plateauing of ELLs' English language development. This study highlights a program for secondary ELLs called the ELL Ambassadors program, which partnered ELLs with non-ELLs based on shared…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, English Language Learners, Communities of Practice
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del Olmo, Margarita – Intercultural Education, 2010
The aim of this paper is to share the conclusions of a recent ethnographic study carried out in Madrid from 2005 to 2008 to analyze the effects of a program implemented by the Community of Madrid, Spain, to address diversity in schools. The Program was given an English name--"Welcome Schools"--and was aimed at preparing children recently…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Foreign Countries, Immigrants, Program Effectiveness
Derwing, Tracey M.; Thomson, Ronald I. – TESL Canada Journal, 2005
In this study we surveyed teachers and program coordinators of Language Instruction for Newcomers to Canada (LINC) from Ontario, British Columbia, and Alberta to determine to what degree they believe they are incorporating citizenship concepts into the ESL classroom. Respondents provided us with information on the nature of their programs, the…
Descriptors: Citizenship, Social Integration, Course Content, Foreign Countries