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Thomas B. Pepinsky; Maya Ravindranath Abtahian; Abigail C. Cohn – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Cross-nationally, urbanization is associated with the decline of minority languages and a shift towards national and official languages. But the processes that link urbanization with language shift have not been adequately documented. In this paper we consider the relationship between cities and language shift from a sociolinguistic perspective,…
Descriptors: Urbanization, Language Minorities, Foreign Countries, Census Figures
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Ee-Ling Low – TESOL Journal, 2025
Singapore is an ethnically, linguistically, and culturally diverse nation-state that has always practiced deliberate language policy and planning. The bilingual education policy, introduced shortly after the young nation's independence has led to the emergence of English-knowing bilinguals who are proficient in both English and their ethnically…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Bilingualism
Albina Necak Lük; Attila Kovács – Mercator European Research Centre on Multilingualism and Language Learning, 2024
The aim of the Regional Dossier series is to provide concise descriptions of regional or minority languages in education, mainly in Europe but also in other parts of the world. The majority of the Hungarian-speaking population in Slovenia lives in the bilingual ethnically mixed area of the Prekmurje region, where both Slovene and Hungarian are…
Descriptors: Hungarian, Language Minorities, Slavic Languages, Native Language