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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 lesson plans to understand how they advance an understanding integration among classroom stakeholders (Canadian teachers and immigrant students). The analysis reveals that the LINC curriculum proliferates inequality between Canadians and newcomers by fostering an assimilative orientation that subjugates immigrants as problematic Others. Immigrants are expected to conform to dominant Canadian ways of being and ways using language. This article calls for a rethinking of integration by identifying possibilities for resistance that could shift immigrants' positioning and reduce discrimination. This could occur through better recognizing bias and dominance, and through acknowledging and validating newcomers' ways of speaking and interacting. ; Créé par le Gouvernement canadien, le Cours de Langue pour les Immigrants au Canada (CLIC – LINC en anglais) a pour but de faciliter l'intégration des immigrants établis au Canada. Cependent, des résultats de recherche signalent que le programme CLIC n'atteint pas ses buts d'intégration des immigrants. Utilisant les concepts analytiques de genre, de discours et de style de Fairclough, cet article examine de près un module de plusieurs plans de cours CLIC afin de comprendre comment ces modules visent à promouvoir l'intégration chez les parties prenantes (enseignants canadiens et étudiants immigrants) en classe. La problématique soulevée par mon analyse souligne que le programme d'études CLIC prolifère l'inégalité entre les Canadiens et les nouveaux arrivants en favorisant une orientation assimilative qui subjugue les nouveaux arrivants. On s'attend à ce que les nouveaux arrivants se conforment aux façons d'être dominantes du Canada et aux ...

The present study investigates the changes that English Grammar has undergone throughout the last four decades and how these alterations are depicted in Grammar Teaching Books. The conduct of the current study based not only on the analysis of printed material and electronic sources that examine language change and variation in contemporary English but also on the employment of actual Grammar Teaching Books, used for the acquisition of English as a second or foreign language. A vast number of valuable and reliable articles and books functioned as the theoretical background of the research Through the comparison and contrast between the presented theory and the grammatical exercises, it was found out that the English we speak now is not the same language with what speakers used some years ago. The fact that a language undergoes changes is an unavoidable process, which is marked by the emergence of some forms and the disappearance of the weaker and less common ones. Thus, the inevitable and continuous nature of such changes render their investigation as an effective and useful pedagogical tool that has to be taken into consideration in the learning and teaching process of English as a second or foreign language.

Lessons from other countries where digital technology is integrated into English classroom will shed lights to digital Thailand. This study, therefore, analyzed the best practices to extract and describe key success factors that could help increase national competitiveness. The conclusion of the study was drawn from an interpretive analysis and synthesis of the review of literature. Five purposefully selected best practices included Finland, Norway, the Netherlands and South Korea. This was a documentary study. The results revealed that key success that all these best practice countries share includes these ten issues: free, accessible, equalized education, ICT in English education, starting learning English in early age, professional development for teachers, stress on qualification of teachers, teacher compensations and welfares, small class size, assessment and testing reform and homework reform. Policy implications indicate that if the Thai government want to reach the educational efficiency of the best practice countries, it should take these issues into consideration. Future inquiry should include more countries to get a wider, more practical and more insightful holistic scope of the study.

Uruguay is quickly emerging as one of the most innovative countries in the field of English Language Teaching (ELT) by delivering thousands of lessons weekly in public schools via interactive videoconference in a project called Ceibal en Inglés. This article provides a comprehensive look at the history of ELT practices in Uruguay that both necessitated this bold approach and provided the infrastructure to implement it nationally. Special focus is paid to the public school system with historical changes in ELT and teacher preparation. This overview article discusses the many challenges faced in 'democratizing' English language instruction in Uruguay and the new practices, policies, and proposals that support this new national objective.

The Netherlands, like other European Union (EU) countries, concern about their education. They have been trying so hard to improve the quality of their education in all levels. In order to prepare their secondary school level students for internationalization among other EU members, they are interested in investigating what actually happens during the English lessons in all secondary school levels. By knowing all things they need to know, it is hoped that they can increase the quality of English lessons in those schools as well as the quality of student exchange program both inside and outside the country land. This study reports how much time Dutch teachers and students use English language during English lessons in VWO and VMBO.

This book argues that the English language industry has become a swirling, beguiling monster, unashamedly intent on challenging local lingua-diversity and threatening individual identities. It brings together linguists, literary figures and teaching professionals in a wide-ranging exposé of this enormous Hydra in action on four continents

The history of the English Language in Malta is no older than the history of British rule in Malta. No one learned, or taught, the language before 1800, and for many years after many were doubtful about its value as a cultural language and were dead set against it as a language of the administration, in spite of the fact that the Maltese had welcomed the English in Malta with open arms when they wanted to throw out Napoleon's soldiers. Our ancestors for many years wanted English protection but not the English tongue. The reason was that Italian had been for several centuries the cultural and 'political language of the Maltese intelligentsia, and the people's native tongue was looked down upon, underrated and completely neglected for literary composition. No wonder that the English language had to fight very hard not only for its survival but also for its long-delayed official recognition. Both the people's own language and the English language had to prove their worth and fight their way up before they were accepted by the upper classes of these islands. ; N/A