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'If We Don't Study the Language, the History Will Be Lost': Motivation to Learn Welsh in Argentine Patagonia
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Banegas, Darío Luis; Roberts, Grisel – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
This study examines the motivations of learners studying Welsh in the city of Esquel, Argentine Patagonia. Welsh is considered a heritage immigrant language in this region, given the fact that a group of Welsh settlers arrived in 1865 and established successful settlements. After a flourishing period, the process of acculturation reduced the…
Descriptors: Welsh, Language Maintenance, Immigrants, Heritage Education
WHODUNNIT? Language Interaction in Identification of Sentential Subjects in Wales and Patagonia
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Mueller Gathercole, Virginia C.; Pérez-Tattam, Rocío S.; Stadthagen-González, Hans; Laporte, Nadine I.; Thomas, Enlli M. – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2019
This study examined Spanish-Welsh (in Patagonia) and Welsh-English (in North Wales) bilingual children's and adults' processing of sentences in which two noun phrases acted as arguments of a verb. The goal was to determine the relative importance of distinct cues to the identification of the subject in the bilinguals' processing of their two…
Descriptors: Spanish, Welsh, English, Bilingualism