Communication plays a significant role in all setups of society, from families to society, at workplaces, and nationally. Communication helps disseminate information to facilitate proper coordination of activities between individuals or between individuals and groups and between groups. Nonetheless, various factors act as barriers that hinder effective communication, including health factors and language indifferences where people speak different languages. Immigrants are among the most affected groups of people in the United States because their inability to speak English could negatively affect how they relate with each other during the transition process since everyone transitions almost simultaneously.

Problem Statement

This research seeks to investigate the language barriers experienced by family immigrants who are transitioning immediately after moving to the united states of America. English is the national language of the country; therefore, immigrants who are not native English speakers or have little knowledge of the English language experience communication difficulties during their transition process. Families are the most affected groups because the transition occurs simultaneously among all the family members.

In the US, the number of immigrant families accounted for 13%; most family types are nuclear families. Most family members who migrate to the united states are nuclear family members because they can easily acquire visas through marital status or parents for spouses and children, respectively. Communication research is the most appropriate solution for this problem because the prevalence of communication problems during the transitioning process is significantly high, as discussed in the literature review section, whereby family relationships are broken. Family members become rebellious, among other issues. Secondly, all family members face these language barriers, from older family members to adolescents and parents.

Research Questions

The language barrier, as the problem faced by most immigrant families, is a communication problem because the language barrier hinders communication. Using the appropriate communication skills could minimize the effect of the language barrier in family setups and help ease tensions at home. This research seeks to answer three questions; the first is about the challenges immigrant families face during the transition period, which includes language barriers that lead to loneliness among older family members and the inability to seek medical attention. The second question is about what both parents and children do to help during the transition period, and the answer is that while at home, family members should use a langue most suitable to all family members. The third question is about the effective communication technique. The answer is that oral communication is the most effective communication technique, whereby most family members communicate verbally through oral communication.

Literature Review

The transition process involves accepting and integrating individuals into a new culture by adapting to the new ways of life in the new country of residence. While this process is smooth for some immigrant families who are native English speakers, that may not be the case for other families from non-native English-speaking countries. Language barrier plays a vital role in communication between individuals; thus, families of non-native English speakers in the United States experience difficulties in their transition processes. In recent years, several studies have focused on the effects of language barriers on family immigrants during the transition process across the different states in the US. These studies have provided possible solutions for addressing these communication problems to help smoothen the transition process. This literature review seeks to evaluate the transitioning process of immigrant families and the effects of the language barriers in the family.

Role of communication

Communication plays an essential role in family lives since it helps family members share important dates in their lives, their needs, basic and secondary, and express their feelings with each other (Cox et al., 2021). Communication enables parents to share their words of wisdom with their children. Communication occurs in different forms, most commonly verbally and non-verbally, and it helps strengthen familial bonds within family setups.

Transitioning process

Language barriers considerably affect familial relationships among families, causing frustrations among parents who may feel their children are drifting away from them when they start adopting new cultural values, including learning new languages (Cox et al .,2021). The most challenging aspect of the l