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Brendan Walsh – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2023
In the two decades preceding Irish independence the Gaelic League (Conradh na Gaeilge, founded 1893), an organisation dedicated to the revival of the Irish language, campaigned to persuade both national and intermediate commissioners of education to reposition the language within the curriculum to reflect what the League believed was both its…
Descriptors: Irish, Language Maintenance, Educational History, Elementary Secondary Education
Liu, Yuying; Gao, Xuesong – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2020
Despite the growing importance of Chinese in many contexts, the ideological orientations towards the Chinese language and its speakers embedded in the wider socio-political context remain under-researched. This study intends to bridge this gap by interpreting media representations of 'Chinese' in Irish print media. A combination of corpus…
Descriptors: Chinese, Ideology, Foreign Countries, Newspapers
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Giles, Jonathan – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2022
Colonialism and displacement have not only led to the migration of millions of Irish people and the endangerment of the Irish language, but also to a subjectivity in which it is possible to struggle against the risk of language loss. This paper explores the importance of sharing stories and information about family at second-language Irish…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Irish, Story Telling, Genealogy
Nicole Volmering, Editor; Claire M. Dunne, Editor; John Walsh, Editor; Noel Ó Murchadha, Editor – Peter Lang Publishing Group, 2024
This volume marks the 2022 centenary of the first National Programme for Education in the Free State. Central to the outlook of the new educational programme was the position of the Irish language as a marker of Irish national identity and culture. Education was to be the means to revitalise the language and cultural nationalism eroded through…
Descriptors: Educational History, Irish, Self Concept, Language Maintenance
Liu, Yuying – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2022
Despite the increasing popularity of Chinese and the recognition of the growing commodifying ideology of Chinese language in many contexts [Liu, Y., & Gao, X. (2020). Commodification of the Chinese language: Investigating language ideology in the Irish media. "Current Issues in Language Planning," 21(5), 512-531.…
Descriptors: Commercialization, Community Schools, Language Attitudes, Immigrants
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Otwinowska, Agnieszka; Meir, Natalia; Ringblom, Natalia; Karpava, Sviatlana; La Morgia, Francesca – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2021
We examined factors determining parental success in transmitting heritage language (HL) and literacy in Russian-speaking migrant families of comparable socioeconomic status (SES) in Cyprus, Ireland, Israel and Sweden. A total of 345 Russian speakers completed a questionnaire about their language use and home language practices. Of those, we chose…
Descriptors: Family Relationship, Cross Cultural Studies, Russian, Parent Child Relationship
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Nic Fhlannchadha, Siobhán; Hickey, Tina M. – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2018
The Irish language is a minority language undergoing the attenuation and accelerated change commonly seen as threatened languages come under increasing pressure from the dominant language. The decline of the numbers of traditional speakers and growing numbers of L2 speakers of Irish has given rise to some contested spaces regarding authenticity,…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Native Speakers, Irish, Semi Structured Interviews
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Dillon, Anna – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2016
In this paper, educational language policy is explored through the lens of linguistic neo-colonialism in Ireland in the case of learners of English as an Additional Language. The perspective of Ireland as a decolonized nation may have an impact on current language policy. Arguments for an additive approach to language and identity, language…
Descriptors: Language Planning, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Skills
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Slatinská, Anna; Pecníková, Jana – European Journal of Contemporary Education, 2017
The focal point of the article is Irish language teaching in the Republic of Ireland. Firstly, we deal with the most significant documents where the status of the Irish language is being defined. In this respect, for the purposes of analysis, we have chosen the document titled "20 Year Strategy for the Irish language" which plays a…
Descriptors: Irish, Language Maintenance, Second Language Instruction, Self Concept
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Hickey, Tina M.; Stenson, Nancy – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2016
Hickey's (1991) article ["Leisure reading in a second language: An experiment with audio tapes." "Language, Culture and Curriculum," 4(2), 119-131. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07908319109525098] reported the benefits of audio-support for L2 reading of real books, showing gains in fluency and motivation among…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Irish, Language Maintenance
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Ó Ceallaigh, T. J.; Ní Dhonnabháin, Áine – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2015
As a language, Irish is unique to Ireland and is, therefore, of crucial importance to the identity of the Irish people, to Irish culture and to world heritage. The Irish language however has had a turbulent and traumatic history and has endured a complex and varied relationship with the Irish people. Since the foundation of the Irish Free State,…
Descriptors: Irish, History, Models, Language Planning
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Stephen, Christine; McPake, Joanna; McLeod, Wilson – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2012
Offering Gaelic medium preschool provision poses particular challenges as most children only encounter Gaelic in the playroom and live in a context heavily dominated by English. Nevertheless, expanding provision for early years education in Gaelic is an important part of ambitious plans to revitalise the language. In this paper we explore the…
Descriptors: Play, Second Language Learning, National Curriculum, Educational Needs
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Mac Lochlainn, Micheal – ReCALL, 2010
This paper details the development of a multidialectical text-to-speech (TTS) application, "Sinteiseoir," for the Irish language. This work is being carried out in the context of Irish as a lesser-used language, where learners and other L2 speakers have limited direct exposure to L1 speakers and speech communities, and where native sound…
Descriptors: Dialects, Graphemes, Irish, Foreign Countries
Gilmartin, Emer – Adult Learner: The Irish Journal of Adult and Community Education, 2008
In a report on meeting the language needs of refugees in Ireland, Little (2000) identifies two sets of language rights for refugees--stemming from the right to preserve their own language or languages as a central element of identity, and the right to enjoy free access to Irish society which entails the right to develop language proficiency in…
Descriptors: Personal Autonomy, Foreign Countries, Refugees, English (Second Language)
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Edwards, John – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1984
Discusses the history of the decline of the use of Irish in Ireland since the 12th century and how present government policies and citizen attitudes have affected this decline. Government actions include establishing a Gaelic Board, setting nominal Irish qualifications for civil servants, and teaching Irish in the primary schools. (SED)
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, Elementary Education, Language Attitudes, Language Maintenance
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