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Guo, Yan – International Review of Education, 2021
In the context of Canada's reliance on immigration for social and economic development, an effective language policy for migrant students is essential for educational systems. However, existing language policy research puts little emphasis on parental agency, particularly immigrant parents. The qualitative study presented here therefore explored…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immigrants, Social Justice, Equal Education
Guo, Yan – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2021
Language policy research puts little emphasis on parental agency in language policy decision-making for English as an Additional Language (EAL) students. This study investigates how migrant parents and community members interpreted and experienced the effects and outcomes of EAL policies. Through qualitative interviews with 35 migrant parents and…
Descriptors: English for Academic Purposes, Language Planning, Decision Making, Immigrants
Guo, Yan – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2015
This study explores how a group of Caucasian pre-service teachers responded to Muslim immigrant parents' accounts of the marginalization of their faith practices in Canadian public schools. Data were collected through interviews with parents, dialogues between parents and pre-service teachers, online reflections, and focus groups among pre-service…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Muslims, Public Schools, Religious Cultural Groups
Zhang, Yan; Guo, Yan – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2017
Chinese children of immigrant families are often perceived as good at memorization and rote learning or as polite, obedient, and passive students lacking creativity and criticality. Guided by Multiple Literacies Theory and translanguaging, this study explores how Chinese children in a Mandarin-English bilingual program skillfully navigate…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, English, Chinese Americans, Immigrants
Guo, Yan – Multicultural Education, 2011
Immigration is now the primary source of population growth in Canada. For the year 2006, the Canadian Census reported that almost 20 percent of the population was born outside of Canada (Statistics Canada, 2007). Between the years 1991 and 2001 specifically, the number of non-Christians, such as Muslims, Buddhists, Sikhs, and Hindus, had more than…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Muslims, Religion, Population Growth
Guo, Yan – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2007
Interest in home-school communication has paid little attention, to date, to the experiences of English as a second language (ESL) parents. This article examines recent Chinese immigrant parents' and Canadian teachers' perspectives of ESL learning presented at Parents' Night. On the basis of observations of three annual Parents' Nights, interviews…
Descriptors: Focus Groups, Study Skills, Immigrants, English (Second Language)