Publications

Publication details [#30564]

Duff, Patricia A., Ping Wong and Margaret Early. 2002. Learning Language for Work and Life: The Linguistic Socialization of Immigrant Canadians Seeking Careers in Healthcare. The Modern Language Journal 86 (3) : 397.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

institutional context | L2-acquisition | medical conversation | old age | workplace conversation

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

Blackwell Publishers

ISBN

0026-7902

Journal WWW

www.ingenta.com/journals/browse/bpl/modl

Annotation

This article explores the linguistic and social processes at work in the education and integration of immigrant English second language speakers into the Canadian healthcare workforce and the broader community.