New Life New Language: The History Of The Adult Migrant English Program
(Shirley Martin)
Amidst the turmoil of settling into a new country, learning the language is vitally important. Over the past 50 years, the Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs? Adult Migrant English Program (AMEP) has helped over one million newcomers to Australia learn English and settle into their new home.
The only program of its kind in the world, AMEP is acknowledged today as a world leader and is Australia?s most important migrant settlement program.
This book charts the development of AMEP from its beginning as a provider of English language classes to post-World War II refugees to its present day provision of nine million hours of English language tuition, annually, to over 39,000 clients from 89 language backgrounds.
Although, Australia has always been a multilingual society, it was not until the mid-1940s that Government policy for adult migrant education was developed.
The establishment of an English language program was part of the overall Commonwealth Government implementation of an immigration program that sought migrants from other countries as well as from Britain.
Shirley Martin draws a vivid picture of everyday life of migrants from a variety of countries and linguistic backgrounds ? it?s a picture that rings true. The stories exemplify how more than a million new arrivals since 1948 have begun their new life in Australia.
Yet, in order to be able to participate fully in the social, economic and cultural life of their new country, they need to speak its national language, English.
The Adult Migrant English Program has, over the decades, offered new arrivals to Australia the opportunity to learn English in a caring, convenient and supportive environment.
In this case, Australia is unique because no other country has guaranteed, as part of its immigration policy, to provide free language tuition to all new arrivals who are not proficient in English.
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