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Anita Lie; Meng Huat Chau; George M. Jacobs; Chenghao Zhu; Hady Sutris Winarlim – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
English features prominently in global communication as part of the knowledge economy in Indonesia and worldwide. Meritocracy represents a key concept within the rhetoric of this economy, as it promises that how well people do in life is not determined by external matters, but mostly by how hard they try. Included here is how hard they study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Language Teachers, Multilingualism
Thomas B. Pepinsky; Maya Ravindranath Abtahian; Abigail C. Cohn – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Cross-nationally, urbanization is associated with the decline of minority languages and a shift towards national and official languages. But the processes that link urbanization with language shift have not been adequately documented. In this paper we consider the relationship between cities and language shift from a sociolinguistic perspective,…
Descriptors: Urbanization, Language Minorities, Foreign Countries, Census Figures
Tabitha Kidwell; Hanung Triyoko – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Regular and sustained contact with speakers of other languages might offer members of multilingual societies opportunities to develop cultural awareness through interactions with diverse individuals. This study examines how the language awareness of individuals in a highly multilingual setting can act as a resource to support their learning about…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Multilingualism, Cultural Awareness, Second Language Learning
Sari, Betty Tjipta; Chasiotis, Athanasios; van de Vijver, Fons J. R.; Bender, Michael – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2020
We investigated how the knowledge and usage of two languages relate to sociocultural adjustment in bilingual adolescent samples from three ethnic groups in Indonesia (214 Javanese, 108 Toraja, and 195 Chinese adolescents; 272 females; M[subscript age] = 14.33 years). We tested a model specifying that the vocabulary knowledge of each language…
Descriptors: Asians, Ethnic Groups, Language Usage, Sociocultural Patterns
Stern, Alissa Joy – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2017
For a language to survive, it must be spoken and passed down to the next generation. But how can we engage teenagers--so crucial for language transmission--to use and value their local tongue when they are bombarded by pressures from outside and from within their society to only speak national and international languages? This paper analyses the…
Descriptors: Social Media, Social Networks, Language Maintenance, Cost Effectiveness

Goebel, Zane – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2002
Drawing on sociolinguistic research, points out that some patterns of socially appropriate language use in Indonesia actually involve Indonesian only to the extent that those interacting wish to maintain social distance, while regional languages are used to promote closer social ties. Suggests Indonesian programs require some rethinking in view of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indonesian, Language Usage, Multilingualism