Language Testing, Migration and Citizenship: Cross-National Perspectives on Integration Regimes (Advances in Sociolinguistics)

279 Pages·2009·0.885 MB·

by  Guus Extra, Piet Van Avermaet, Massimiliano Spotti

Language Testing, Migration
and Citizenship
Advances in Sociolinguistics
Series Editor: Professor Sally Johnson, University of Leeds
Since the emergence of sociolinguistics as a new field of enquiry in the late 1960s,
research into the relationship between language and society has advanced almost beyond
recognition. In particular, the past decade has witnessed the considerable influence of
theories drawn from outside of sociolinguistics itself. Thus rather than see language as a
mere reflection of society, recent work has been increasingly inspired by ideas drawn
from social, cultural, and political theory that have emphasized the constitutive role
played by language/discourse in all areas of social life. The Advances in Sociolinguistics
series seeks to provide a snapshot of the current diversity of the field of sociolinguistics
and the blurring of the boundaries between sociolinguistics and other domains of study
concerned with the role of language in society.
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Language Testing, Migration and Citizenship: Cross-National Perspectives on
Integration Regimes
Edited by Guus Extra, Massimiliano Spotti and Piet Van Avermaet
Language Testing,
Migration and
Citizenship
Cross-National Perspectives on
Integration Regimes
Edited by
Guus Extra, Massimiliano Spotti and
Piet Van Avermaet
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Contents
Acknowledgements vii
Notes on contributors viii
INTRODUCTION
1 Testing regimes for newcomers 1
Guus Extra, Massimiliano Spotti and Piet Van Avermaet
PART I CASE STUDIES IN EUROPE
2 The politics of language and citizenship in the Baltic context 35
Gabrielle Hogan-Brun
3 Language, migration and citizenship in Sweden:
still a test-free zone 57
Lilian Nygren-Junkin
4 Inventing English as convenient fiction: language testing 66
regimes in the United Kingdom
Adrian Blackledge
5 Language, migration and citizenship in Germany: 87
discourses on integration and belonging
Patrick Stevenson and Livia Schanze
6 One nation, two policies: language requirements for 107
citizenship and integration in Belgium
Piet Van Avermaet and Sara Gysen
7 Testing regimes for newcomers to the Netherlands 125
Guus Extra and Massimiliano Spotti
8 Regimenting language, mobility and citizenship in 148
Luxembourg
Kristine Horner
9 Spanish language ideologies in managing immigration and 167
citizenship
Dick Vigers and Clare Mar-Molinero
PART II CASE STUDIES ABROAD
10 The language barrier between immigration and citizenship 189
in the United States
Tammy Gales
Contents
11 Canada: a multicultural mosaic 211
Lilian Nygren-Junkin
12 The spectre of the Dictation Test: language testing for 224
immigration and citizenship in Australia
Tim McNamara
13 Citizenship, language and nationality in Israel 242
Elana Shohamy and Tzahi Kanza
Index 261
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Acknowledgements
We would like to express our thanks to Karin Berkhout at Babylon,
Centre for Studies of the Multicultural Society (Tilburg University,
the Netherlands) for her support in preparing the manuscript for this
Volume.
Guus Extra, Massimiliano Spotti and
Piet Van Avermaet
Editors
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Notes on contributors
Piet Van Avermaet
Centre for Diversity and Learning, Director
Ghent University
Belgium
e-mail: [email protected]
Adrian Blackledge
Professor of Bilingualism
School of Education
University of Birmingham
United Kingdom
e-mail: [email protected]
Guus Extra
Professor of Language and Minorities
Department of Language and Culture Studies
Tilburg University
The Netherlands
e-mail: [email protected]
Tammy Gales
Washington Program Graduate Fellow
Linguistics Department
University of California, Davis
USA
e-mail: [email protected]
Sara Gysen
Researcher
Linguistics Department
University of Leuven
Belgium
e-mail: [email protected]
Gabrielle Hogan-Brun
Senior Research Fellow
Graduate School of Education
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Notes on contributors
University of Bristol
United Kingdom
e-mail: [email protected]
Kristine Horner
Lecturer in German and Sociolinguistics
Director of Postgraduate Studies in German/Russian
School of Modern Languages and Cultures
University of Leeds
United Kingdom
e-mail: [email protected]
Tzahi Kanza
Program in Applied Linguistics
School of Education
Tel Aviv University
Israel
e-mail: [email protected]
Clare Mar-Molinero
Modern Languages/Centre for Transnational Studies
School of Humanities
University of Southampton
United Kingdom
e-mail: [email protected]
Tim McNamara
Professor of Applied Linguistics
School of Languages and Linguistics
University of Melbourne
Australia
e-mail: [email protected]
Lilian Nygren-Junkin
Researcher and Senior Lecturer
Department of Swedish
University of Göteborg
Sweden
e-mail: [email protected]
Livia Schanze
Doctoral student in Modern Languages
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