Native English speaking teachers and Taiwanese English teachers' professional identity

The study found that Native English Speaking Teachers (NESTs) helped Taiwanese English teachers define their weaknesses, strengths, roles and values through relationality. NESTs brought competing discourses to the profession. In addition, team teaching has become a site of tension threatening Taiwanese English teachers in activating their professional agency.

Engaging Deakin's international students in ongoing English language development

Universities in Australia, as with universities in the US and UK, are required more and more to adjust to student cohorts which represent a range of national, cultural and linguistic diversity. Many are concerned about the readiness of these students for study in an English-speaking medium and about their subsequent experiences and success. This presentation reports on the outcomes of “The English Language Growth” project, conducted across five Australian universities. This study, funded by the Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC), represents the largest of its type in Australia. The project investigated the strategies that international students from non-English speaking backgrounds use to continue to improve their English once entering a university in Australia.

Barriers and enablers to healthcare access and use among Arabic-speaking and Caucasian English-speaking patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus: a qualitative comparative study

OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to explore the decision-making processes and associated barriers and enablers that determine access and use of healthcare services in Arabic-speaking and English-speaking Caucasian patients with diabetes in Australia. STUDY SETTING AND DESIGN: Face-to-face semistructured individual interviews and group interviews were conducted at various healthcare settings-diabetes outpatient clinics in 2 tertiary referral hospitals, 6 primary care practices and 10 community centres in Melbourne, Australia. PARTICIPANTS: A total of 100 participants with type 2 diabetes mellitus were recruited into 2 groups: 60 Arabic-speaking and 40 English-speaking Caucasian. DATA COLLECTION: Interviews were audio-taped, translated into English when necessary, transcribed and coded thematically. Sociodemographic and clinical information was gathered using a self-completed questionnaire and medical records. PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: Only Arabic-speaking migrants intentionally delayed access to healthcare services when obvious signs of diabetes were experienced, missing opportunities to detect diabetes at an early stage. Four major barriers and enablers to healthcare access and use were identified: influence of significant other(s), unique sociocultural and religious beliefs, experiences with healthcare providers and lack of knowledge about healthcare services. Compared with Arabic-speaking migrants, English-speaking participants had no reluctance to access and use medical services when signs of ill-health appeared; their treatment-seeking behaviours were straightforward. CONCLUSIONS: Arabic-speaking migrants appear to intentionally delay access to medical services even when symptomatic. Four barriers to health services access have been identified. Tailored interventions must be developed for Arabic-speaking migrants to improve access to available health services, facilitate timely diagnosis of diabetes and ultimately to improve glycaemic control.

Social security in the english-speaking Caribbean

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Social security in the english-speaking Caribbean

Includes bibliography

Comercio exterior y la política comercial en los países del Caribe de habla inglesa = Foreign trade and trade policy of the English-speaking Caribbean countries

Incluye Bibliografía

Social protection in the english-speaking Caribbean

Includes bibliography

Youth in the English-speaking Caribbean: the high cost of dependent development

Includes bibliography

Comercio exterior y la política comercial de los países del Caribe de habla inglesa = Foreign trade and trade policy of the English-speaking Caribbean countries

Incluye Bibliografía

Peaceful uses of nuclear energy in the English-speaking Caribbean

Revisa las aplicaciones, necesidades, problemas y perspectivas para el uso pacifico de la energia nuclear en cinco paises anglo- parlantes del Caribe: Belice, Jamaica, Santa Lucia, Trinidad y Tabago y Barbados.

Report of the Workshop on Analysis of Food Systems in the English-Speaking Caribbean Countries

Informe del Seminario sobre analisis de sistemas alimentarios en paises caribenos de habla inglesa. El Seminario forma parte del programa de actividades de la Division Agricola Conjunta dedicadas al estudio de sistemas alimentarios y a la preparacion de lineamientos de politica economica sectorial que permitan elevar los niveles de seguridad alimentaria en la region.

Algunas estimaciones y proyecciones de población para el Caribe angloparlante = Some population estimates and projections for the English-speaking Caribbean

Incluye Bibliografía

Recesión económica internacional, la planificación y la gestión económica en el Caribe anglohablante = International economic recession, planning and economic management in the English-speaking Caribbean

Documento de base para la V Conferencia de Ministros