Category: Refugees & Migrants
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Working with refugee-background learners
I recently wrote about a project (Critical Skills for Life and Work) we did at the University of Graz, which aimed to help people with a refugee or migrant background with their professional integration. One of the things I did, as part of my involvement in the project, was to familiarise myself with existing literature…
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Critical Skills for Life and Work
An overview of the Critical Skills for Life and Work project, an EU-funded initiative helping highly skilled refugees develop professional intercultural communication skills. The flexible toolkit uses a plurilingual approach to support workplace integration across five career stages.
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Disrupting Geographical Borders in Language Education
The three next chapters in Challenging Boundaries in Language Education, problematise how the changing composition of language classroom impacts the professional roles and identities of teachers. These chapters look into superdiverse urban settings, explore the identity construction of teachers, and describe a teacher education programme that prepares language educators to help refugee-background learners.
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No child is unwelcome here: ELT tutoring for refugee children
One of the less visible aspects of the refugee crisis is that the refugee children have their education disrupted. They often have difficulty enrolling in the formal education systems of their host countries, and even when they do, they usually need a lot of extra support. To help provide some of the support needed, we at the…