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Publication details [#66132]

McLeod, Sharynne, Helen L. Blake and Laura Bennetts Kneebone. 2019. The impact of oral English proficiency on humanitarian migrants’ experiences of settling in Australia. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 22 (6) : 689–705.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
age | education | foreign language proficiency | gender | migration | orality | participant
Language as a subject
English, Australian
Place, Publisher
Routledge
Journal WWW
www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This study states that poor oral English skills may profoundly impede humanitarian migrants to Australia's capacity to settle and become self-sufficient.