Teaching Adult Immigrants with Limited Formal Education

Joy Kreeft Peyton is a Senior Fellow, Center for Applied Linguistics, Washington, DC, USA.Martha Young-Scholten is Professor of Second Language Acquisition, Newcastle University, UK.

• Larry Condelli: PrefaceChapter 1. Martha Young-Scholten and Joy Kreeft Peyton: Introduction: Understanding Adults Learning to Read for the First Time in a New Language: Multiple PerspectivesChapter 2. Minna Suni and Taina Tammelin-Laine: Language and Literacy in Social ContextChapter 3. Marcin Sosiński: Reading from a Psycholinguistic PerspectiveChapter 4. Pia Holtappels, Kerstin Chlubek, Andreas Rohde, Kim Schick, and Johanna Schnuch: VocabularyChapter 5. Martha Young-Scholten and Rola Naeb: Acquisition and Assessment of MorphosyntaxChapter 6. Belma Haznedar: Bilingualism and MultilingualismChapter 7. Nancy Faux and Susan Watson: Teaching and Tutoring Adult Learners with Limited Education and Literacy

Teaching literacy to adult migrants who are learning the language of their new countries requires specific competences. This book offers valuable suggestions, framing them in both the context of research on second language acquisition, bilingualism and literacy learning, and the socio-political dimension of migration. Exhaustive information and clear language make it a valuable tool for all involved in teaching and immigration.