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Small but Mighty: Challenging Hegemonic Discourses in Developing Literacy in a Minority Language
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Rhiannon Packer; Mirain Rhys – British Journal of Special Education, 2025
Navigating support and seeking resources to support children and young people with additional learning needs (ALN) can be a challenge, but for those receiving state-funded education, the barriers to ensuring effective provision can be further compounded. This paper explores the challenges faced in Welsh-medium education by the hegemonic discourses…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Minorities, Literacy, Special Needs Students
Creating Breathing Spaces for Teenagers in the Welsh Language: The Case of Theatre-In-Education
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Hannah Sams – Research in Drama Education, 2024
Despite the vibrancy and potential Welsh-language Theatre-in-Education (TIE) has thus far received very little scholarly attention. This article aims to address that gap in research by focusing on Welsh TIE's role in engaging teenagers with and through the Welsh language. The first part of this article outlines the socio-political, linguistic and…
Descriptors: Welsh, Language of Instruction, Language Minorities, Adolescents
Defiance within the Decline? Revisiting New Welsh Speakers' Language Journeys
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Rhian Hodges – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
The Welsh Government's Welsh language strategy, Cymraeg: A million Welsh speakers [Welsh Government. 2017a. "Cymraeg 2050: A Million Welsh Speakers." Cardiff: Welsh Government], aims to increase the numbers of Welsh speakers to one million by 2050. The creation of new Welsh speakers and immersion education form an integral part of the…
Descriptors: Welsh, Language Usage, Sociolinguistics, Secondary School Students
Migration through a Language Planning Lens: A Typology of Welsh Speakers' Migration Decisions
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Elen Bonner; Cynog Prys; Rhian Hodges; Siwan Mitchelmore – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2024
This paper seeks to explain the migration decisions of minority language speakers by investigating motivating factors. Viewed through a language planning lens, the study pushes the parameters of some of the discipline's more recent agency concepts within the context of migration. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 60 Welsh speakers…
Descriptors: Welsh, Language Planning, Language Minorities, Decision Making
Reasons to Learn a Minoritised Language: The Case of Migrant New Speakers of Welsh in Cardiff, Wales
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Ka Long Tung – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2025
This paper explores the reasons for migrant new speakers of Welsh in Cardiff to learn the language given that English is the main communication medium in everyday life. From interviews with 10 migrant new speakers of Welsh and their language diaries, this paper shows that migrant new speakers were interested in accessing the Welsh culture and…
Descriptors: Welsh, Language Minorities, Immigrants, Second Language Learning
Welsh-English Bilingual Adolescents' Performance on Verbal Analogy and Verbal Classification Tasks: The Role of Language Exposure and Use on Vocabulary Knowledge
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Hanna L. Binks; Enlli Môn Thomas – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2024
Numerous studies suggest that bilinguals demonstrate smaller vocabularies than monolinguals, and that bilinguals' breadth of vocabulary knowledge - both expressive and receptive - is linked to input frequencies in each language [e.g. Hoff, E., S. Welsh, S. Place, and K. Ribot. 2014. "Properties of Dual Language Input That Shape Bilingual…
Descriptors: Welsh, English (Second Language), English, Cognitive Ability