Language Barrier: It’s Effect to New Immigrant Students in Canada
An Essay Submitted By:
Rosell G. Quimpan
Submitted To:
Mrs. Karen Hadwen
Instructor
April 15, 2018
Abstract This essay will tackle and explore the effect of language barrier towards new immigrant students in Canada. This paper will look for both positive and negative effect in different aspects. The information obtained in this paper was based on researched articles, Government of Canada website, opinion and views of Immigration and Refugee Citizenship Commission Minister through his speeches, social media posts, and readings about migration. The concepts of multicultural education, my experience as an Immigrant, and the parable story in the book Is Everyone Really
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According to Statistic Canada, in 2016, Canada had 1,212,075 new immigrants who had permanently settled in Canada from 2011 to 2016. These recent immigrants represented 3.5% of Canada’s total population in 2016. The majority (60.3%) of these new immigrants were admitted under the economic category, 26.8% were admitted under the family class to join family already in the country, and 11.6% were admitted to Canada as refugees. For the first time, Africa ranks second, ahead of Europe, as a source continent of recent immigrants to Canada, with a share of 13.4% in 2016. Asia (including the Middle East) remains, however, the top source continent of recent immigrants. In 2016, the majority (61.8%) of newcomers were born in Asia. More than one in five Canadians are Foreign-born. It is about 7,540,830 foreign-born individuals who came to Canada through the immigration process, representing over one-fifth (21.9%) of Canada’s total population. (Statistics Canada, …show more content…
Parental involvement is often much lower among language minority families. These parents may be uncomfortable about coming into the classroom to talk with the teacher because they are not fluent themselves, so they might not be fully aware of how their child is performing in the classroom. Language minority parents cannot always help their children with homework, so homework assignments may not always be completed satisfactorily. (Elsworth, 2017.) Language barriers invites academic failure. In 2008, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) conducted research across 26 countries showing that over 50 percent of students who dropped out of school did not speak the language in which they were being educated. According to the Kids Count Data Center, the number of children ages 5 to 17 who speak a language other than English at home increased from 9.5 million in 2000 to nearly 12 million in 2015 (a 25 percent increase). Language barriers can have long-term negative effects on a student's academic performance. (Elsworth,2017).
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Thomas; Collier. ( 2002). A national study of school effectiveness for Language Minority Students' Long-Term Academic Achievement. Escholarship.org. Retrieved April 10, 2014 from http://escholarship.org/uc/item/65j213pt#page-312
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