Adult Language Education and Migration

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.

"Language education for migrants is of critical importance for the promotion of individual life chances and community development. The eighteen substantive chapters in this volume, together with the thoughtful Introduction and Afterword, provide expert accounts of policy dispositions and realities on the ground. This book is a must for anyone interested in language education, language policy and social integration."Constant Leung, King’s College London, UK"Adult Language Education and Migration brings together an unprecedented collection of chapters from nine different countries with very unique political and policy backdrops. Readers will find wisdom, optimism, innovation, complexity, and a fresh critical eye among the chapters of this book. Simpson and Whiteside have given us a must-read for educators and researchers working in the dynamic and politically shifting spaces in which adult language learning and migration intersect."Martha Bigelow, University of Minnesota, USA

• Introduction 1. Shaping Australian policy for Australian adult migrant English language learning2. Connecting with community: Helping immigrant low literacy ESL learners in local contexts3. French language education policy for adult migrants in Québec4. Justice-oriented citizenship in Canadian ESL classes: The views of experienced teachers5. Language education for adult migrants in Catalonia: Nation-state ambitions without nation-state resources6. A multilingual, collaborative and functional approach to nongovernment Catalan classes7. Integration policies and adult second language learning in Finland8. A Capable Parent project - stay-at-home mothers learning Finnish9. Language training for adult migrants in France: History, policies and institutions10. Plurilingual literacy practices in a creative writing workshop with adult second language learners11. English, everywhere and nowhere: ESOL policies in Ireland12. Getting to grips with the English language13. The shifting landscape of Dutch integration policy: From L1 literacy teaching to literacy in Dutch as entrance criterion14. ICT-based applications for civic integration in The Netherlands: Policy drivers and limits in practice15. English language learning for adult migrants in superdiverse Britain16. Whose Integration? A participatory ESOL project in the UK17. Green Card English: New possibilities and enduring challenges In US immigration reform18. Educational programming for low-literate adult migrants in the USAfterword Index