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Direct linkBahhari, Abdulwdood – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2023
Families that live temporarily abroad for work or education (amongst other reasons) often encounter some difficulties to maintain their children's L1; particularly when they live in English-speaking countries. This study explores the language maintenance experiences of ten Saudi Arabian families sojourning in Australia, from the perspective of…
Descriptors: Arabic, Language Maintenance, Religion, Islam
Xiaofang Yao; Paul Gruba – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2022
The aim of this paper is to advance an understanding of power in linguistic landscape research. After setting out and discussing the concepts of 'power over', 'power to' and 'power through', we present a case study of Chinese semiotic assemblages in the Australian regional city of Bendigo. Our research includes ethnographic details of the…
Descriptors: Power Structure, Semiotics, Immigrants, Language Research
Oriyama, Kaya – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2012
When linguistic minority parents wish to develop and maintain their children's literacy in heritage languages (HLs), what can they do to help? How and to what extent do the individual contexts of language use and background affect the development and maintenance of HL literacy, compared with the sociocultural context of community? What are the…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Community Schools, Literacy, Bilingualism
Liddicoat, Anthony J. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2009
Australia's language and multicultural policies have constructed the intercultural dimension of Australian identity and practice in a number of different ways relating to different community groups. This paper traces the evolution of multicultural policy from the 1970s until the present through the main national policy documents in order to…
Descriptors: Public Policy, Ideology, Cultural Pluralism, Foreign Countries
Malcolm, Ian G.; Sharifian, Farzad – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2005
Learning a second dialect entails learning new schemas, and in some cases learning a whole new set of language schemas as well as cultural schemas. Most Australian Aboriginal children live in a bicultural and bidialectal context. They are exposed, to a greater or lesser extent, to the discourse of Australian English and internalise some of its…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Dialects, Indigenous Populations, Second Language Learning
Peer reviewedTaft, Ronald; Cahill, Desmond – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1989
Study of native language maintenance of 10- and 11-year-old children of Lebanese immigrants in Australia found that most could speak but not read or write Lebanese. Lebanese competence depended on subjects' parents' literacy level and interest in language quality, and actual use reflected children's opportunities or necessity to speak Lebanese.…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Immigrants
