ELL stands for English Language Learning.
Ten percent of high school students in British Columbia are currently enrolled in English Language Learning courses. All students are learning English, it’s just those in ELL that aren’t getting graduation credit.
For some of us, English is a third or fourth language. That’s why we campaigned to change the name of ESL (English as Second Language) classes to better represent our diverse perspectives and experiences. In 2011, the B.C. Ministry of Education announced it would change the ESL label to ELL, or English Language Learning.
This new label respects the complexity and maturity of our lived experiences.
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In B.C, the top ten languages spoken at home are English, Punjabi, Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean, Tagalog (Philipino), Spanish, Vietnamese and Farsi.
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26.5% of British Columbians' “mother tongue” is a non-official language, followed by Ontario (25.7%), Alberta (19.4%), and Quebec (12.3%). British Columbia has the highest percentage of language diversity of any Canadian province.
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In 2012, Canada resettled 26% fewer refugees than in 2011.
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Recent immigrants are disproportionately impacted by poverty. We are three times more likely to live in poverty than Canadian-born persons.
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10 years after arriving in Canada, immigrants still face poverty rates twice as high as Canadian-born people. It takes 20 years for the poverty rates of immigrants to equalize with the poverty rates of persons born in Canada.
Facts courtesy of AMSSA.org.
