Resumen de Conceptions of Literacy in Canadian Immigrant Language Training

Ellen Cray, Pat Currie

• For immigrants and refugees, access to a national or majority language is an important issue. According to its immigrant language training policy, Canada offers its newcomers language instruction for the purposes of settlement and integration. One important aspect of settlement and integration involves literacy. Our study examined the concept of literacy in Canada's current immigrant language-training policy; we found that the implementation of this policy actually reneges on the original promise of language instruction to a level that would allow for successful settlement and integration.