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Promoting Minority Language Use to Foster Revitalisation: Insights from New Speakers of West Frisian
Ruth Kircher; Ethan Kutlu; Mirjam Vellinga – Applied Linguistics, 2024
Language planners are increasingly aware of the importance of new speakers (individuals acquiring a language outside the home, typically later-on in life) for the revitalisation of minority languages. Yet, little is known about new speakers' activation (the process by which they become active and habitual minority language users). This article…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Language Usage, Language Minorities, Indo European Languages
Jaime Inocencio Chi Pech – First Language, 2024
This article uses cognitive measures previously developed within linguistic relativity research to explore the thinking patterns of Yucatec Maya-Spanish bilingual children in the Yucatan peninsula. These measures were designed to detect cognitive patterns associated with specific language patterns. Here, these measures are used to test whether 12…
Descriptors: Spanish, American Indian Languages, American Indians, Bilingualism
Sejung Yang – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2020
Testing is increasingly recognized as a vital part of language revitalization. I demonstrate here that assessment of linguistic knowledge should also be part of the planning process that precedes the creation of a revitalization program. I take as an example Jejueo, the language of Korea's Jeju Island. Whereas previously published work…
Descriptors: Testing, Language Tests, Vocabulary Skills, Language Patterns
Elhambakhsh, S. E.; Allami, H. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2018
This study investigates diglossic patterns of language use by speakers of Zoroastrian Dari in the city of Yazd, where most of Zoroastrian population of Iran lives. Efforts have been made to find out how, when and why the spoken language of Dari is favoured by Zoroastrian community members. For this reason, the evaluation by the informants of their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Bilingualism, Language Usage, Linguistics
Lamy, Delano Sydney – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The present study is concerned with language contact between Creole English and Spanish spoken by bilingual West Indians who live in Panama City, Panama. The goal of this study is to examine the speech patterns of monolinguals of Creole English and Spanish and Spanish-Creole English bilinguals in the local communities of this region, by employing…
Descriptors: Creoles, Phonetics, Spanish, English
Beier, Christine Marie – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This dissertation explores the phenomenon of "ways of speaking" in the Nanti speech community of Montetoni, in southeastern Peruvian Amazonia, between 1999 and 2009. In the context of this study, a way of speaking is a socially meaningful, conventionalized sound pattern, manifest at the level of the utterance, that expresses the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Speech Communication, Social Life, Linguistics
Leuner, Beata – Babel, 2010
This paper investigates the retention of Polish language and culture by first generation Polish migrants from the 1980s and their second generation offspring (aged 15-24) from endogamous and exogamous marriages. We examine various domains such as the home, social networks, visits to Poland, institutions of learning, the Polish media, the Polish…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Language Maintenance, Catholics, Foreign Countries
Sofu, Hatice – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2009
Where there are two or more languages in contact, language shift is inevitable. Shift or maintenance happens at individual or societal levels due to social and psychological conditions in which community members are in. Pattern of language use in a family and the attitudes of family members towards heritage language or the language of the wider…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Multilingualism, Bilingualism, Language Maintenance
Extra, Guus; Yagmur, Kutlay – Language and Education, 2010
In this study, data and discourses on immigrant minority groups and languages other than Dutch at home and at school are presented in order to contextualise the status of Turkish and Moroccan communities and their languages in the Netherlands. Patterns of language use, choice and attitudes of Turkish (n = 63) and Moroccan (n = 64) youngsters in…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Language Patterns, Language Maintenance, Foreign Countries
Guardado, Martin – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2009
This article offers a critical analysis of the language socialization of Spanish-speaking families in a Scout group in Metro Vancouver. Using tools of discourse analysis, the article examines the language use patterns of the participants, particularly focusing on the language ideologies to which they oriented themselves and the identities indexed…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Ideology, Socialization, Criticism
Kim, Sun Hee Ok; Starks, Donna – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2010
The father's role in children's L1 maintenance and L2 learning is a relatively unexplored area. This study considers the L1 and L2 proficiency of 30 Korean-English late bilinguals who immigrated to New Zealand during their adolescence and how their L1 and L2 proficiency is influenced by the language use of family members. Data were collected…
Descriptors: Language Skill Attrition, Language Patterns, Language Maintenance, Siblings
Fernandez, Sue; Clyne, Michael – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2007
There have been few Australian studies of language maintenance amongst immigrant languages from the Indian subcontinent. The present study focuses on Tamil speakers in Melbourne from Sri Lanka or India, who are Hindus or Christians. Tamil is a pluricentric language that has been under the domination of English in these countries, at least amongst…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Language Maintenance, Focus Groups, Foreign Countries
Wetzel, Christopher – American Indian Quarterly, 2006
Language decline in many immigrant and ethnic communities is always a persistent problem in America. To prevent Native tribal languages from becoming obliterated, several organizations have been founded to document and teach Indigenous languages, a number of tribes have crafted ambitious language policies, and Congress approved the Native American…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Tribally Controlled Education, Language Patterns, American Indians