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Ruochen Ning – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Increasing numbers of Chinese students are pursuing graduate degrees in Catalonia. Although highly proficient in both Castilian and English when they arrive, they find themselves in a bilingual society where Catalan, not Castilian, predominates both at universities and in the broader social context. Acquiring Catalan is hence important for both…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Chinese, Graduate Students, Student Motivation
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Hernández, Jone Miren; Ramírez, Jaime Altuna – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2022
In recent years, the relevant data has revealed continuous growth in knowledge of Basque. Formal education has played a significant role in this advance, in which young speakers have been front and centre. Yet the levels of Basque-use, especially in regard to informal and relationship contexts, have not mirrored this increase. Expanding our…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Language Usage, Language Minorities, Languages
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Oihana Leonet; María Orcasitas-Vicandi – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
In the present study, we have explored language learning motivation, attitudes and exposition strategies in participants' L2 and FL in an attempt to adopt a multilingual view that better suits the complex sociolinguistic context of the Basque Country. The study includes 200 young multilinguals from the Basque Country. Most of them have Basque as…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Languages
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Artetxe Sarasola, Miren – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2022
This paper explores the experience and impact of participation in afterschool oral improvisation workshops -- bertso workshops -- for young Basque speakers. Drawing on participant observation and in-depth interviews among young people in the Northern Basque Country, the researcher, a practicing improviser, bertsolari, herself, argues that the…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Workshops, Creative Activities, Self Concept
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Méndez García, María del Carmen; Cores-Bilbao, Esther; Moreno Gámez, Laura – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2021
Multicultural European societies increasingly demand internationally oriented citizens, who are willing to actively participate in civic life and able to successfully access the labour market. The European dimension in education supposedly endows youngsters with civic values, multiculturalist attitudes and plurilingual competences which ultimately…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Self Concept, Foreign Countries, Cultural Pluralism
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Lapresta-Rey, Cecilio; Huguet, Ángel; Petreñas, Cristina; Ianos, Adelina – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2020
Located in Catalonia (Spain), and based on the Acculturation Theory applied to the field of linguistics, the objectives of this article are: (i) to detect and study the linguistic acculturation strategies of young people; (ii) to analyse the effects of origin and linguistic acculturation profiles relating to self-identifications with Spain and…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Acculturation, Language Usage, Spanish
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Monteagudo, Henrique; Muniain, Facundo Reyna – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2020
The present contribution focuses on the Galician-descendant community in the city of Buenos Aires. Its aim is to draw attention on the academic interest of research on the processes of assimilation to the language and identity of reception (in that case, Spanish) and maintenance or recovery of the language and identity of origin in the case of a…
Descriptors: Romance Languages, Immigrants, Acculturation, Spanish
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Inmaculada Pineda; Wenli Tsou; Fay Chen – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Glocalization is the local adaptation of global trends, and though it has been extensively studied in other fields, there has been a lower emphasis on it in pedagogy. Glocalization is especially relevant in education given that pedagogical approaches to language learning such as Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) and English as a…
Descriptors: Inservice Teacher Education, Bilingual Education, Content and Language Integrated Learning, Faculty Development
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Petreñas, Cristina; Ianos, Adelina; Sansó, Clara; Huguet, Ángel – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2019
We analyse the influence of attending or not attending classes of the language of origin in self-identification and in life-satisfaction. In addition, we analyse how these elements are related to the perception of integration of young immigrants of Romanian origin in a multilingual and multicultural context like that of Catalonia (Spain). We…
Descriptors: Correlation, Life Satisfaction, Immigrants, Foreign Countries
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O'Rourke, Bernadette – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2018
In recent years there has been a focus in language policy research on understanding how national policies are interpreted and negotiated by social actors on the ground. This paper looks at the interplay between government and grassroots initiatives to create Galician-speaking spaces in predominantly Spanish-speaking urban settings. While official…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Language Variation, Ethnography, Interviews
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Ianos, Maria Adelina; Huguet, Àngel; Lapresta-Rey, Cecilio – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2017
Language attitudes have become more relevant than ever as a result of the considerable number of immigrant students enrolled in the Catalan educational system and the challenges this entails in terms of promoting social integration and language learning. Therefore, the objective of the study is to increase our understanding of language attitudes…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Student Attitudes, Secondary School Students, Social Integration
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Larrañaga, Nekane; Garcia, Iñaki; Azurmendi, Maria-Jose; Bourhis, Richard – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2016
This study analyses the influence of ethnic identity on the acculturation orientations of Basque undergraduates, towards groups in traditional contact (native Basques and native Spaniards) and towards recent immigrant groups. Five dimensions were used to measure the Basque and/or Spanish identities: linguistic, cultural, political, global, and the…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Ethnic Groups, Intergroup Relations, Acculturation