Immigrants' language skills and visa category
This article is concerned with the determinants of English language proficiency among immigrants in a longitudinal survey for Australia. It focuses on both visa category and variables derived from an economic model of the determinants of destination-language proficiency among immigrants. Skills-test...
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| author | Chiswick, B. Lee, Y. Miller, Paul |
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| description | This article is concerned with the determinants of English language proficiency among immigrants in a longitudinal survey for Australia. It focuses on both visa category and variables derived from an economic model of the determinants of destination-language proficiency among immigrants. Skills-tested and economic immigrants have the greatest proficiency shortly after immigration, followed by family-based visa recipients, with refugees having the lowest proficiency. Other variables the same, these differences disappear by 3.5 years after immigration for speaking skills; and although they diminish, they persist longer for reading and writing skills. The variables generated from the model of destination-language proficiency (such as schooling and age at migration) are, in part, predictions of visa category, but they are more important statistically for explaining proficiency. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-436172018-03-29T09:07:22Z Immigrants' language skills and visa category Chiswick, B. Lee, Y. Miller, Paul This article is concerned with the determinants of English language proficiency among immigrants in a longitudinal survey for Australia. It focuses on both visa category and variables derived from an economic model of the determinants of destination-language proficiency among immigrants. Skills-tested and economic immigrants have the greatest proficiency shortly after immigration, followed by family-based visa recipients, with refugees having the lowest proficiency. Other variables the same, these differences disappear by 3.5 years after immigration for speaking skills; and although they diminish, they persist longer for reading and writing skills. The variables generated from the model of destination-language proficiency (such as schooling and age at migration) are, in part, predictions of visa category, but they are more important statistically for explaining proficiency. 2006 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/43617 10.1111/j.1747-7379.2006.00023.x Wiley-Blackwell restricted |
| spellingShingle | Chiswick, B. Lee, Y. Miller, Paul Immigrants' language skills and visa category |
| title | Immigrants' language skills and visa category |
| title_full | Immigrants' language skills and visa category |
| title_fullStr | Immigrants' language skills and visa category |
| title_full_unstemmed | Immigrants' language skills and visa category |
| title_short | Immigrants' language skills and visa category |
| title_sort | immigrants' language skills and visa category |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/43617 |