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Adult English Language Instruction in the United States

其他書名	Determining Need and Investing Wisely
出版	Migration Policy Institute, 2007
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=nRPGjwEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋Learning to speak, read, and write in the English language is the most important integration challenge that faces the 1.8 million immigrants who now arrive in the United States each year. English is truly the language of opportunity for today's immigrants: it opens the door to jobs that pay family-sustaining wages and allows immigrants to communicate with their neighbors, their children's teachers, health care providers, landlords, and other with whom they must interact on a regular basis. English skills are also crucial to passing the US citizenship exam, which serves as a gateway to full participation in the life of one's community, including the ability to vote in local, state, and federal elections. Given immigrants' growing share of our nation's citizens, workers, and families, promoting their acquisition of English is arguably the most important integration challenge -- and opportunity -- facing our city, state, and federal governments. We contend that ensuring the immigrants have the opportunity to acquire strong English language and literacy skills is among the most neglected domestic policy issues in our nation today.