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Caroline Jones; Jesse Tran; Eleanor Jorgensen; Romi Hill; Patricia Ellis; Jane Simpson; Felicity Meakins; Ben Foley; Marcel Reverter-Rambaldi; Gari Tudor-Smith; Paul Williams; Clair Hill; Mark Richards – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2024
Dictionaries for under-resourced languages are, like other dictionaries, traditionally in hard-copy form. Electronic online formats can improve access to dictionaries for under-resourced languages. To make it easier to create online dictionaries with linked sound and image files, starting from a Toolbox file or similar backslash-formatted…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Software, Programming, Dictionaries
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Mat Bettinson; Steven Bird – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2021
Mobile apps have the potential to support collaborative fieldwork even where web connectivity is unreliable or unavailable. To explore this potential, we developed portable network infrastructure and custom-made field tool apps. We deployed this solution in remote communities in the far north of Australia, in connection with co-located cooperative…
Descriptors: Language Research, Documentation, Language Maintenance, Computer Software
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Bridey Lea; Myfany Turpin; Joel Liddle Perrurle – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2025
Purpose: In recent years, digital projects have created tools for learning languages, such as mobile applications (apps). In contexts where the language has low prestige, innovative digital learning tools can support language revitalisation. This article takes the Australian Kaytetye Indigemoji app as a case study in community resource…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries, Computer Software
Priyanka Bose; Xuesong Gao; Sue Starfield; Nirukshi Perera – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2024
Family language policy (FLP) impacts the maintenance of heritage language(s) in the family domain, where parents play a crucial role in making language-related decisions for their children. Globalisation, immigration, the COVID-19 pandemic, and digital communication have all affected FLP. Studies are now calling for examining how dispersed…
Descriptors: Family Relationship, Language Usage, Indo European Languages, Linguistic Theory
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Guskaroska, Agata; Elliott, Thomas – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2022
Heritage language maintenance can be very challenging for diaspora communities worldwide. The role of technology on heritage language maintenance has recently started to spark the interest of researchers as a new emerging field but it still needs a lot of exploration. This exploratory study aims to provide an insight into Macedonian diaspora…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Immigrants, Parent Attitudes, Second Language Learning
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Bowern, Claire – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2016
Here I present the background to, and a description of, a newly developed database of historical and contemporary lexical data for Australian languages (Chirila), concentrating on the Pama-Nyungan family (the largest family in the country). While the database was initially developed in order to facilitate research on cognate words and…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Uncommonly Taught Languages, Language Research, Databases