Migration & Language Education

Migration & Language Education

Editor-in-Chief: Sang Hwan Seong
First Published: April 2020
Frequency: Once times per year
ISSN: 2652-5984 (Online)

Aims and Scope:

Migration & Language Education is an innovative open access journal devoted to the research intersecting two different dimensions, namely migration and language education. When a person migrates, it is particularly difficult to adapt to a host country unless s/he already has acquired its language(s). At the same time, the migrants’ linguistic assets have intrinsic relationships with the identities and communication cultures of the migrants and their families. Thus, migration is naturally associated with various aspects of language education. This journal invites new and creative manuscripts that can discuss languages, language acquisition, identity problems, language policy, and social integration that are triggered by migration.

Publication Details:
This is an open access journal.
All articles are freely available immediately on publication.
There are no fees for submitting to or publishing in this journal.

Publisher Information:
Ground Level, 470 St Kilda Road
Melbourne VIC 3004 Australia
Email: journals@castledown.com

Archives

Volume 1 Number 1 (2020)

Volume 1 Number 2 (2020)

Volume 2 Number 1 (2021)

Volume 3 Number 1 (2022)

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Work integrated language learning: Boundary crossing, connectivity, and L2 affordances

Linda Febring , Alastair Henry – In contexts of transnational migration, language skills provide the key to employability and successful integration into host country societies.

Metalanguage for enabling immigrants and refugees: Relevance of Natural Semantic Metalanguage and Minimal English

Boudjemaa Dendenne – We should seek every possible method for educating immigrants and refugees and facilitating communication for them – especially during the current difficult times due to the spread of a killer-pandemic (i.

Work integrated language learning: Boundary crossing, connectivity, and L2 affordances

Linda Febring , Alastair Henry – In contexts of transnational migration, language skills provide the key to employability and successful integration into host country societies.

Multicultural education: How are ethnic minorities labelled and educated in post-handover Hong Kong?

Fang Gao , Jan Gube – Using multicultural education as a lens, this article details the discursive formation of Hong Kong’s linguistic landscape with a focus on policy arrangements around teaching Chinese as a second language for non-Chinese ethnic minorities…

Metalanguage for enabling immigrants and refugees: Relevance of Natural Semantic Metalanguage and Minimal English

Boudjemaa Dendenne – We should seek every possible method for educating immigrants and refugees and facilitating communication for them – especially during the current difficult times due to the spread of a killer-pandemic (i.

Migrant oriented Japanese language programs in Tokyo: A qualitative study about language policy and language learners

Seunghun J. Lee , Machi Niiya – Language proficiency is identified as one of the most important factors for successful migrant integration.

Language, diversity and culturally responsive education

Ann Lopez – Advanced economies are experiencing demographic shifts brought about by increased immigration.

Language teaching and settlement for newcomers in the digital age: A blended learning research project

Jill Cummings , Matthias Sturm , Augusta Avram – Blended Learning (BL) in English language learning programs in Canada is defined as the combination of f2f learning with instructor-facilitated use by students of online activities and resources that complement the…

Factors affecting immigrants’ host country language proficiency: Focusing on the differences between migrant workers and marriage-migrant women in South Korea

In Young Yang , Seongseog Park , Sungjun Lee , Byeonggon Min – This study aims to reveal significant factors affecting the Korean language proficiency of immigrants in Korea by comparing the two immigrant groups, migrant workers and marriage-migrant women,…

Work integrated language learning: Boundary crossing, connectivity, and L2 affordances

Linda Febring , Alastair Henry – In contexts of transnational migration, language skills provide the key to employability and successful integration into host country societies.

Multicultural education: How are ethnic minorities labelled and educated in post-handover Hong Kong?

Fang Gao , Jan Gube – Using multicultural education as a lens, this article details the discursive formation of Hong Kong’s linguistic landscape with a focus on policy arrangements around teaching Chinese as a second language for non-Chinese ethnic minorities…

Metalanguage for enabling immigrants and refugees: Relevance of Natural Semantic Metalanguage and Minimal English

Boudjemaa Dendenne – We should seek every possible method for educating immigrants and refugees and facilitating communication for them – especially during the current difficult times due to the spread of a killer-pandemic (i.

Migrant oriented Japanese language programs in Tokyo: A qualitative study about language policy and language learners

Seunghun J. Lee , Machi Niiya – Language proficiency is identified as one of the most important factors for successful migrant integration.

Language, diversity and culturally responsive education

Ann Lopez – Advanced economies are experiencing demographic shifts brought about by increased immigration.

Language teaching and settlement for newcomers in the digital age: A blended learning research project

Jill Cummings , Matthias Sturm , Augusta Avram – Blended Learning (BL) in English language learning programs in Canada is defined as the combination of f2f learning with instructor-facilitated use by students of online activities and resources that complement the…

Factors affecting immigrants’ host country language proficiency: Focusing on the differences between migrant workers and marriage-migrant women in South Korea

In Young Yang , Seongseog Park , Sungjun Lee , Byeonggon Min – This study aims to reveal significant factors affecting the Korean language proficiency of immigrants in Korea by comparing the two immigrant groups, migrant workers and marriage-migrant women,…

Selected Linguistics Articles

Introducing ICT to teachers of an institution-wide language programme: Principal considerations

Introducing ICT to teachers of an institution-wide language programme: Principal considerations

Christine Leahy - This article sets out to introduce some principal pedagogical considerations which influenced the design and delivery of a teacher training project for an institution-wide language programme.
Benefits of using online student response systems in Japanese EFL classrooms

Benefits of using online student response systems in Japanese EFL classrooms

Cathrine-Mette Mork - Online student response systems (OSRSs) are fast replacing classroom response systems (CRSs), also known as personal or audience response systems or "clickers.
Interculturality as collaborative identity management in language education

Interculturality as collaborative identity management in language education

Claudia Borghetti - Just over ten years ago, Block (2007, p.
Beyond the washback of the English National Exam on learning: Subsequent impact on language learning strategies of first-year English majors

Beyond the washback of the English National Exam on learning: Subsequent impact on language learning strategies of first-year English majors

Minh Huu Thanh Nguyen - The study aims to investigate washback of the English National Exam (ENE) on learning and how they impacted English language learning strategies of first-year English majors at University of Foreign Language Studies, The University of…
Assessing the use of aids for a computer-mediated task: Taking notes while listening

Assessing the use of aids for a computer-mediated task: Taking notes while listening

Annick Rivens Mompean, Nicolas Guichon - This research aims at understanding the cognitive processes at work, and strategies used by, students of English as a foreign language (EFL) when confronted with a complex task in a multimedia system.
”I Don’t Know” Use and Guessing on the Bilingual Japanese Vocabulary Size Test: Clarifications and Limitations

”I Don’t Know” Use and Guessing on the Bilingual Japanese Vocabulary Size Test: Clarifications and Limitations

Kurtis McDonald, Mayumi Asaba - This paper offers a response to Hutchinson's comments on ourpreliminary report of ''I don't know'' use and guessing on the bilingualJapanese Vocabulary Size Test (VST), which was published in VocabularyLearning and Instruction.
Purpose, outcome, and methodology in computer-assisted language learning publications: A systematic review

Purpose, outcome, and methodology in computer-assisted language learning publications: A systematic review

Somayeh Fathali , Azadeh Emadi - Although CALL is still an emerging area of study in many countries, several studies have shown the significant contribution of these countries to the development of CALL worldwide, among which Iran is not an…