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Chih-Hao Chang; Kwun Man Chiang – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
This study investigates the language learning experiences of a migrant child in an underprivileged migrant-marriage family in Japan through narrative inquiry. Data were collected over the course of a year through a migrant child survey, reflective journals and interviews with the migrant child and his mother, homeroom teacher and tutor to…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Migrants, Personal Narratives, Longitudinal Studies
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Palm, Clara; Ganuza, Natalia; Hedman, Christina – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2019
This article explores language use and investment among Somali-speaking children and adolescents in Sweden, through group interviews and survey data. Our findings indicate that there are incentives to invest in Somali language learning considering the reported language use patterns and the expressed positive attitudes towards Somali mother tongue…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Afro Asiatic Languages, Immigrants, Incentives
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Dyers, Charlyn; Abongdia, Jane-Francis – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2010
What are the similarities and differences between the concepts "language attitudes" (LAs) and "language ideologies" (LIs)? The need to answer this question arose from a study done by Abongdia in Cameroon with Francophone high school students of English to determine their attitudes towards English as well as their motivation for…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Ideology, Learning Motivation, Foreign Countries