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Hornberger, Nancy H. – Journal of Language, Identity & Education, 2006
This article considers instances of biliterate educational practice in contexts of indigenous language revitalization involving Quechua in the South American Andes, Guarani in Paraguay, and Maori in Aotearoa/New Zealand. In these indigenous contexts of sociohistorical and sociolinguistic oppression, the implementation of multilingual language…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multilingualism, Malayo Polynesian Languages, American Indian Languages
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Starks, Donna – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2005
This paper considers speakers' differing degrees of self-confidence in their bilingual abilities and their effects on reported language use and observed patterns of language choice. One hundred and twenty individuals from New Zealand's four largest Pasifika communities--Samoan, Cook Islands, Tongan and Niuean--reported on their self-confidence in…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Foreign Countries, Native Speakers, Malayo Polynesian Languages