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WP319 Participatory ESOL: Taking stock
2023
Building on sustained discussion among eleven people actively engaged in teaching English to adult speakers of other languages (ESOL), this paper asks what ‘participatory’ approaches to ESOL now look like in England. First it sketches a lineage …
Key words: ESOL, Freire, participatory pedagogy
WP308 ESOL and Linguistic Citizenship: Practical actions amid policy neglect
2023
This paper describes national policy for teaching English to adult migrants in England, and asks what ESOL teaching can do to overcome the fragmentation and hostility it finds, opening up to multilingualism instead. After a historical sketch of …
Key words: adult education, ESOL, language policy, Linguistic Citizenship
WP284 Brokering Britain, educating citizens: Critical ESOL issues and principles
2021
This paper is about the relationship between citizenship and ESOL for adult migrant students. When citizenship was inserted into the ESOL curriculum following the Nationality, Asylum & Immigration Act 2002, some teachers welcomed it, others were …
Key words: ESOL
WP234 'Our Languages': Sociolinguistics in multilingual participatory ESOL classes
2018
Speakers of languages other than English in the UK frequently face barriers to their integration and wellbeing, not because they do not speak the language or are reluctant to learn it (a commonly repeated trope in political and public discourse) but …
Key words: ESOL
WP130 Citizenship, securitization and suspicion in UK ESOL policy.
2014
This paper looks at the increasingly strong links between security and English language policy in the UK, and it seeks to open a dialogue between sociolinguistics and security studies.? It outlines concepts related to securitization, focusing on the …
Key words: ESOL
WP106 Whose integration?
2013
What does the term ?integration? mean to adult ESOL learners? What facilitates their sense of belonging in the UK? What are the barriers they face? What are their opinions about anti-migrant policy and rhetoric? The ?Whose Integration? project …
Key words: ESOL
WP87 Politics, policy and practice: ESOL in the UK and the USA
2012
In November 2011 the authors spoke at a seminar at King?s College London on the topic of policy and practice in adult ESOL. This paper draws on the talks at that seminar and the ensuing discussion between the authors. We frame it dialogically: we …
Key words: ESOL