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Direct linkNarges Ghandchi – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Recent studies explore youth and children language brokering at the interface of caregiving for their migrant families and frame this conceptualisation as interactionally mediated practicing of care with the overall purpose of family sustainability during the family's coping process within the migration context. From this joint perspective, youth…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Family Relationship, Translation, Migrants
Kashif Raza; Catherine Chua – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Despite recognising multilingualism as a reality and multilingual workforce as an advantage, language policies continue to favour certain languages over others. Using a case study of Canada's language-in-immigration policy related to three federally administered immigration programs, this study is an attempt to understand how the macro-level…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immigrants, Immigration, Skilled Workers
Alastair Henry; Cecilia Thorsen; Peter D. MacIntyre – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
In many contexts of multilingualism, language learners can initiate communication in the target language (TL), or a contact language (such as English). Patterns of use emerging from these choices affect TL development. They also vary between individuals. Willingness to communicate (WTC) needs to be investigated in ways that capture these…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Multilingualism, Swedish
Alastair Henry; Cecilia Thorsen; Peter D. MacIntyre – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
In many contexts of multilingualism, language learners can initiate communication in the target language (TL), or a contact language (such as English). Patterns of use emerging from these choices vary between individuals and affect TL development. Willingness to communicate (WTC) needs to be investigated in ways that capture these variations. So…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Context Effect, Intercultural Communication, Adult Education
Xi Wu; Paul Tarc – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Given the widened access to Chinese higher education, a large proportion of students studying at Chinese colleges come from rural lower-class families and encounter different challenges in English language learning. By using Bourdieu's social theoretical lenses, this case study explores how the interplay of capital, habitus and social fields…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Working Class, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
Carolyn McKinney – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Framed by decolonial theory, this paper explores how language and literacy ideologies, including Anglonormativity, or the expectation that children should be proficient in a standardised version of English and are deficient if not, shape language and literacy practices in South African classrooms. While not legitimised, the use of fluid language…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Bilingualism, Ethnography, Decolonization
