unfortunately many of those in finland whose parents were bom abroad appear to inherit the integration challenges of their parents struggling with language difficulties and lacking the local knowledge to navigate finnish society and the finnish labour market while the concentration of foreign bom adults at the lower end of the wage distribution has been falling over the past years the opposite trend has emerged among their children recent research indicates that it can take students many years to develop the academic language used in school environments and language learning is an ongoing process that requires effective support beginning in early childhood education and continuing throughout compulsory and uppersecondary schooling this is particularly the case given the complexity of the finnish language