measure is then used in an analysis of the determinants of English language proficiency among adult immigrants in the United … States and Canada. It is shown that, when other determinants of English language proficiency are the same, the greater the … measure of linguistic distance, the poorer is the respondent's English language proficiency. This measure can be used in …

, and make cultural and linguistic comparisons. By expanding the German-language content on the website, Appropedia … instruction. The results of this study show that integrating environmental issues with foreign language study provides significant … opportunities for students to increase their language proficiency, develop their understanding of concepts related to the …

Germany and Canada stand at polar ends of the scientific debate over language integration and ascension to citizenship …. German naturalization, as of January 2000, contains an explicit language criterion for naturalization. The first German … aims at language as a criterion for legal immigration. Canada, in effect, does not base entry or citizenship on knowledge …

Over the past 20 years, there has been increasing interest in exploring what language teachers believe (Borg, 2006 … language teacher using various metaphors. The wide range of metaphors volunteered by these trainee teachers were coded into … not only what teachers themselves believe, but also reinvigorates notions of (language) teaching itself. One of the …