Repeat After Me, My Name is Javier : Immigrants English Prociency Improvement Four Years After Arrival

Pro ciency in the host-country language is one of the most important assimilation dimensions for immigrants. This paper analyzes changes in the English pro ciency of recent immigrants to Canada using a panel data of four years. Probit and ordered probit estimations show how speci c characteristics r...

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Autor principal: Torres, Javier
Formato: info:eu-repo/semantics/monograph
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Lima 2015
Materias:
Emigración e inmigración
Asimilación cultural
Inglés > Idioma
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/11354/425
http://biblioteca.clacso.edu.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=pe/pe-014&d=11354425oai
Aporte de:
Red de Bibliotecas Virtuales de Ciencias Sociales (CLACSO) de Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales
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institution Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales
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repository_str R-122
collection Red de Bibliotecas Virtuales de Ciencias Sociales (CLACSO)
language Inglés
topic Emigración e inmigración
Asimilación cultural
Inglés--Idioma
spellingShingle Emigración e inmigración
Asimilación cultural
Inglés--Idioma
Torres, Javier
Repeat After Me, My Name is Javier : Immigrants English Prociency Improvement Four Years After Arrival
topic_facet Emigración e inmigración
Asimilación cultural
Inglés--Idioma
description Pro ciency in the host-country language is one of the most important assimilation dimensions for immigrants. This paper analyzes changes in the English pro ciency of recent immigrants to Canada using a panel data of four years. Probit and ordered probit estimations show how speci c characteristics relate to language pro ciency improvement or decline. I use speaking abilities as an overall indicator of language pro ciency and separate the sample according to immigrants' initial level: basic, intermediate or advanced. Overall, immigrants show relatively small improvements in language pro ciency in the first four years. Still, those arriving under the family immigrant category with an intermediate or advanced level are less likely to improve and more likely to decrease their English pro ciency. These results suggest that newcomers in this category experience a particularly di erent environment in the host country. The ef ect is not statistically robust for immigrants with a basic knowledge of English.
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title Repeat After Me, My Name is Javier : Immigrants English Prociency Improvement Four Years After Arrival
title_short Repeat After Me, My Name is Javier : Immigrants English Prociency Improvement Four Years After Arrival
title_full Repeat After Me, My Name is Javier : Immigrants English Prociency Improvement Four Years After Arrival
title_fullStr Repeat After Me, My Name is Javier : Immigrants English Prociency Improvement Four Years After Arrival
title_full_unstemmed Repeat After Me, My Name is Javier : Immigrants English Prociency Improvement Four Years After Arrival
title_sort repeat after me, my name is javier : immigrants english prociency improvement four years after arrival
publisher Lima
publishDate 2015
url http://hdl.handle.net/11354/425
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