Adult Immigrants' Media Usage and Its Function in Host Language Training Opportunities: A Path Analysis

Autor/in	Reichenberg, Monica
Titel	Adult Immigrants' Media Usage and Its Function in Host Language Training Opportunities: A Path Analysis
Quelle	In: Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 16 (2016) 1, S.209-222 (14 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1533-242X
Schlagwörter	Adults; Immigrants; Second Language Learning; Path Analysis; Second Language Instruction; Higher Education; Acculturation; Refugees; Regression (Statistics); Age Differences; Educational Attainment; Swedish; Mass Media Effects; Surveys; Mass Media Use; Least Squares Statistics; Foreign Countries; Sweden + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Immigrant; Immigrantin; Immigranten; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Pfadanalyse; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Akkulturation; Flüchtling; Regression; Regressionsanalyse; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Schwedisch; Survey; Umfrage; Befragung; Mediennutzung; Ausland; Schweden
Abstract	Media promotes to what extent immigrants learn the host language and cultural values. Consequently, the overall aim of this paper is to identify predictors among adult immigrants in language training and its effect on host language training. The participants (n = 186)-- many of them refugees--were recruited purposefully for the study from one learning centre. In the first part of the analysis, an OLS-regression estimated the effect of age and education on media usage. In the second part of the analysis, the path model was estimated to test if media usage mediated the effect of age and education on host language training. The study confirms previous findings that there is a generation gap between immigrants. The study finds a negative effect of higher education on immigrants' media usage. Furthermore, the study confirms that age and education impacts media usage, and in turn media usage impacts immigrants' host language training. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01