A second challenge to immigrant integration is the insufficient number of effective adult English language acquisition programs. Immigrants come to Silicon Valley to build – or rebuild – their lives.
They come to Silicon Valley with potential to contribute, but the lack of English competency prevents them from using their skills and talents. Fully competent adults who lack the ability to speak, read and write in English may need to rely on their children to interpret for them. Providing adult English language instruction would be an investment in the human capital of our region that would generate quantifiable net gains in the form of increased tax revenues, lower social welfare payments, and improved educational and workforce outcomes among the children of immigrants.
Despite the growth of the immigrant population and the benefits of promoting English proficiency, federal and state funding has not kept pace for adult English as a Second Language and Vocational English as a Second Language, or ESL and VESL instruction.
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Funding shortfalls, uncoordinated programming and resource deficits among providers mean long waiting periods for enrollment, overcrowded classrooms and a lack of updated materials and equipment.
A third challenge to immigrant integration is the inability of receiving communities to understand and recognize immigrants as real and potential assets in the community rather than as liabilities. Conversely, newcomers may have cultural misunderstandings and misperceptions about their receiving community that may create barriers to integration and community building. Culture plays a significant role in defining our identity and world view. For both the receiving community and immigrants, cultural interactions can occur anywhere and everywhere, such as the park, community center, school and grocery store. However, such positive interaction will not likely happen or be meaningful without programs that intentionally bring people from different cultural backgrounds together to establish trust and work on common issues.
A second challenge to immigrant integration is the insufficient number of effective adult English language acquisition programs. Immigrants come to Silicon Valley to build – or rebuild – their lives.
They come to Silicon Valley with potential to contribute, but the lack of English competency prevents them from using their skills and talents. Fully competent adults who lack the ability to speak, read and write in English may need to rely on their children to interpret for them. Providing adult English language instruction would be an investment in the human capital of our region that would generate quantifiable net gains in the form of increased tax revenues, lower social welfare payments, and improved educational and workforce outcomes among the children of immigrants.
Despite the growth of the immigrant population and the benefits of promoting English proficiency, federal and state funding has not kept pace for adult English as a Second Language and Vocational English as a Second Language, or ESL and VESL instruction.
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Funding shortfalls, uncoordinated programming and resource deficits among providers mean long waiting periods for enrollment, overcrowded classrooms and a lack of updated materials and equipment.
A third challenge to immigrant integration is the inability of receiving communities to understand and recognize immigrants as real and potential assets in the community rather than as liabilities. Conversely, newcomers may have cultural misunderstandings and misperceptions about their receiving community that may create barriers to integration and community building. Culture plays a significant role in defining our identity and world view. For both the receiving community and immigrants, cultural interactions can occur anywhere and everywhere, such as the park, community center, school and grocery store. However, such positive interaction will not likely happen or be meaningful without programs that intentionally bring people from different cultural backgrounds together to establish trust and work on common issues.
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