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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