From migrant to citizen
Subtitle: testing language, testing culture
By: edited by Christina Slade, Martina Mollering.
Contributors: Slade, Christina.; Möllering, Martina.
Series: Language and globalization
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9780230576339
Subjects: Language and languages -- Ability testing; Language policy; Immigrants -- Language; Immigrants -- Cultural assimilation; Citizenship -- Australia; Citizenship
Description: "Citizenship is highly topical and relevant to a number of disciplines including law, politics and sociology. What can a linguistic study contribute to the debate? In this impressive volume a combination of theorists -- linguists, historians and lawyers -- address the subject of citizenship testing in language proficiency and 'cultural' knowledge"--