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Peer reviewedGiles, Howard; Byrne, Jane L. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1982
Outlines social psychological approach to language and ethnicity which allows understanding processes underlying group members' desires to create distinctive ethnolinguistic varieties. Evaluates Gardner's and Clement's social psychological models of second language acquisition in interethnic contexts; proposes specific social psychological…
Descriptors: Ethnic Groups, Ethnicity, Ethnolinguistics, Learning Processes
Peer reviewedSchumann, John H. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1986
Presents a model of second language acquisition based on the social-psychology of acculturation, including factors in social, affective, personality, cognitive, biological, aptitude, personal, input, and instructional areas. Studies which test this model are reviewed and evaluated. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Acculturation, Affective Objectives, Cognitive Style, Language Aptitude
Peer reviewedStrubell, Miquel; Chamberlain, Alan – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1996
Discusses bilingual educational policies in Catalonia, where the official aim is to reverse a language shift in favor of Catalan. Chamberlain's response focuses on the decline of Catalan under Franco, similarities between some minority languages in Europe and the language situation in Brunei, and the role of the school and the media in language…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Change Strategies, Diachronic Linguistics, Educational Objectives
