This study investigated heritage language (HL) maintenance and ethnic identity among Korean heritage speakers in the Pacific region (Australia, New Zealand, and Hawaii), an understudied population in the field. It focused on patterns of language use and factors (i.e. age at immigration (AI), self-rated language proficiency, and frequency of…

Ethnolinguistic vitality theory asserts that Status, Demographic, Institutional Support and Control factors make up the vitality of ethnolinguistic groups. An assessment of a group's strengths and weaknesses in each of these dimensions provides a rough classification of ethnolinguistic groups into those having low, medium, or high vitality. Low…

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…

Asserts that in order to participate in and contribute to the development of a cohesive multicultural society, it is not necessary for the members of minority groups to become monolingual speakers of English, and that the goal of a multicultural society should be to appreciate the value of each cultural group. (SED)

Argues that Australians from different ethnic backgrounds are not a threat to cohesion as long as they share the overarching values which are reflected in Australia's democracy, economic system, legal institutions, and in Engish as the common language of communication. Discusses the Greek-Australian tradition of family life. (SED)

The perceived ethnolinguistic vitality of Vietnamese Australians and Anglo Australians in Brisbane is reported, as well as differences based on sex, level of education, and, for Anglo Australians, residence in areas with either high or low concentrations of Vietnamese Australians. Anglo Australians were perceived as much higher in vitality.…

Investigates the relative significance of family collectivism and minority languages as possible core values among four ethnic groups in the context of Australian society in which the English language and social structures of the majority group are dominant. Respondents were young adults drawn from Greek, Latvian, Italian, and Chinese-Australian…

Discusses the literature in Australia about cultural pluralism and its implications for educational policy, concentrating on the debate about the merits and weaknesses of the 1978 Australian government adoption of multiculturalism as its guiding policy. Critics accept multiculturalism as valid only in the domain of ethnic family and community.…

Two competing theories of "both ways" (dominant culture access and minority culture maintenance) education are examined: Harris' culture domain separation theory and Kemmis'"negotiated meaning" approach. Analysis along three dimensions (view of culture, language, and epistomology/ontology) suggests Harris' theory is based on a…

Addresses the issue of how ethnic groups cognitively represent some of the societal forces impinging upon them and relevant outgroups. The concept of vitality was used to measure Greek- and Anglo-Australians' construals of the sociostructural positions of their own group and of the other group. (SED)