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Minority Language Rights to Education in International, Regional, and Domestic Regulations and Practices: The Case of Frisian in the Netherlands
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Bayat, Zoha; Kircher, Ruth; Van de Velde, Hans – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2023
This paper examines minority language education in the Dutch province of Fryslân from a rights-based approach. To conduct the analysis, we employed a qualitative (legal) content analysis. We explored minority language rights at different levels to answer the following question: To what extent are international and regional standards on…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Language Planning, Indo European Languages, Multilingualism
Intergenerational Language Transmission in Quebec: Patterns and Predictors in the Light of Provincial Language Planning
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Kircher, Ruth – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
The study presented here is the first empirical investigation of the patterns and predictors of the intergenerational transmission of French in Quebec. An online questionnaire was used to gather data from 274 parents from different mother tongue (L1) groups: L1 French, L1 English, L1 French and English, and L1 Other. The results show that L1…
Descriptors: Language Planning, French, Parent Attitudes, Native Language
Intersections of Official and Family Language Policy in Quebec
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Ballinger, Susan; Brouillard, Melanie; Ahooja, Alexa; Kircher, Ruth; Polka, Linda; Byers-Heinlein, Krista – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2022
The current paper describes a study that sought to determine the beliefs, practices, and needs of parents living in Montreal, Quebec, who were raising their children bi/multilingually. The parents (N = 27) participated in a total of nine focus group and individual interviews in which they discussed their family language policies (language…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Family Relationship, French, Language Attitudes
Attitudes towards Multicultural London English: Implications for Attitude Theory and Language Planning
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Kircher, Ruth; Fox, Sue – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2019
The study presented here is the first empirical investigation of attitudes towards Multicultural London English (MLE), the multiethnolect spoken in England's main metropolis. An online questionnaire was used to gather data from 800 participants, including MLE speakers as well as non-MLE speakers from a wide variety of different backgrounds. The…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Language Variation, Cultural Pluralism, Foreign Countries