Access to professional communities of practice : communication and cultural barriers of highly qualified immigrant professionals in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
dc.contributor.author | Wang, Lei | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2012-06-12T19:07:40Z | |
dc.date.available | 2012-06-12T19:07:40Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2006 | en_US |
dc.degree.discipline | Curriculum, Teaching and Learning | en_US |
dc.degree.level | Master of Education (M.Ed.) | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | Immigrants have been recruited to Canada for their societal and economic importance. Yet it is well documented that skilled workers encounter many barriers re-entering their internationally trained fields in Canada. Among others, the communication and cultural barriers, although recognized as major ones, have more often been mentioned than studied in depth. A case study has been designed to explore this topic from the re-entry experiences of six immigrant professionals in three different fields: engineering, medicine, and banking. This study also examined the professional language re-socialization support provided by a new type of higher-level, occupational specific language training program (Enhanced Language Training) in the three mentioned professional fields. | en_US |
dc.format.extent | 9061820 bytes | en_US |
dc.identifier | (Sirsi) a1684219 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1993/7969 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
dc.rights | open access | en_US |
dc.title | Access to professional communities of practice : communication and cultural barriers of highly qualified immigrant professionals in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada | en_US |
dc.type | master thesis | en_US |
local.subject.manitoba | yes | en_US |
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