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Murray, Clíona; Lynch, Andrea; Flynn, Niamh; Davitt, Emer – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2023
In newly multilingual communities, where the language of education can no longer be assumed to be the home language of students, debates around language education policy can reflect broader sociocultural and political assumptions. As Ireland has become increasingly diverse in recent decades, the core compulsory status of the Irish language has…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Minorities, Native Language Instruction, Irish
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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Ciara O'Toole – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Assessing vocabulary knowledge is an important part of establishing language proficiency in bilingual children. The crosslinguistic lexical tasks (CLTs) provide a framework for testing vocabulary development in three-to-six year-olds using a standard procedure and comparable items for multiple languages. This study describes the development of the…
Descriptors: Irish, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Task Analysis
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Barry, Shane – Australian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2021
Self-efficacy, the system of beliefs that individuals possess which enables them to exercise control and actions when faced with a specific task, is an essential component to language learning, as it has the potential to promote the self-regulatory capacity required for successful language acquisition and performance. One way in which…
Descriptors: Irish, Self Efficacy, Second Language Learning, Metacognition
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Smith-Christmas, Cassie – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2021
This article examines how power and solidarity in family relations are negotiated along linguistic lines, and in particular, the role of a third language in this negotiation process. It takes as its case study a transnational family in Ireland who practise a strongly pro-Polish FLP and where the parents are seen as authorities in Polish and their…
Descriptors: Family Relationship, Multilingualism, Language Usage, Polish
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Murphy, Gavin – Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2022
Sparse attention in the educational leadership literature is given to those leading immersion schools, despite the established connection between educational leadership and context, including cultural context. By eliciting principals' accounts of practices in leading Irish language-medium immersion education in secondary schools, this study begins…
Descriptors: Principals, Instructional Leadership, Administrator Attitudes, Secondary Schools
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Mulgrew, Linda; Duffy, Orla; Kennedy, Lynda – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2022
Background: An increasing number of children in the UK and Ireland are growing up speaking more than one language. The many advantages of bilingualism are acknowledged; however, this increased linguistic diversity presents particular challenges for speech and language therapists (SLTs). The case is often more complex with speakers of minority…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Bilingualism, Speech Language Pathology, Speech Therapy
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Mahon, Áine – Ethics and Education, 2017
With specific reference to the teaching of Irish and English in Ireland, I am concerned in this paper with the experiences of language dispossession and language pedagogy. Drawing on Jacques Derrida's key concepts of "hospitality" and "monolingualism," I argue that in Ireland the first of these experiences cannot be separated…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Irish, Second Language Instruction, Educational Philosophy
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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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Nic Fhlannchadha, Siobhán; Hickey, Tina M. – First Language, 2017
An in-depth examination of the acquisition of grammatical gender has not previously been conducted for Irish, an endangered indigenous language now typically acquired simultaneously with English, or as L2. Children acquiring Irish must contend with the opacity of the Irish gender system and the plurifunctionality of the inflections used to mark…
Descriptors: Irish, Language Acquisition, Grammar, Form Classes (Languages)
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O'Toole, Ciara; Hickey, Tina M. – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2017
This study investigated the role of language exposure in vocabulary acquisition in Irish, a threatened minority language in Ireland which is usually acquired with English in a bilingual context. Using a bilingual Irish-English adaptation of the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories) [Fenson, L., V. A. Marchman, D. J. Thal, P. S.…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Language Minorities, Irish, Scores
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McNally, Sinéad; Darmody, Merike; Quigley, Jean – Irish Educational Studies, 2019
Socio-emotional development is increasingly recognised as playing a central role in children's academic achievement. However, little is known about the socio-emotional development of language-minority children on entry to school and how these children fare in comparison to their language-majority peers. To address this gap, longitudinal data on…
Descriptors: Social Development, Emotional Development, Academic Achievement, Language Minorities
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Devitt, Ann; Condon, Joe; Dalton, Gene; O'Connell, Jane; Ní Dhuinn, Melanie – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2018
This paper presents an analysis of primary schoolchildren's attitudes to the Irish language, Gaeilge, in the context of national policy in the Republic of Ireland. In particular, the study examines the factors (social, cultural, cognitive and organisational) that may be related to a pronounced excess in disengagement with Irish over and above…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Self Efficacy, Economic Factors, Foreign Countries
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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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Dalton, Gene; Devitt, Ann – International Journal of Game-Based Learning, 2016
In the 2011 census almost one in three Irish teenagers claimed to be unable to speak Irish (Central Statistics Office, Ireland, 2012), despite the language being taught daily in school. The challenges facing the Irish language in schools are complex and multifaceted. The research reported here attempts to address some of these challenges by…
Descriptors: Irish, Computer Games, Teaching Methods, Language Usage
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