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Birgit Hellwig; Dagmar Jung – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2020
Language documentation efforts are most often concerned with the adult language and usually do not include the language used by and with children. Essential parts of the natural linguistic behaviour of communities thus remain undocumented, and a growing body of literature explores what language documentation, language maintenance, and language…
Descriptors: Documentation, Language Research, Language Maintenance, Child Language
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Saunders, George – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1982
Criticizes some recently published views on the difficulty of raising children bilingually (e.g., tolerance of children's deviations from adult speech, the influence of friends, and finding an adequate vocabulary for a foreign environment). Also discusses the use of children as subjects in language research. (EKN)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, Child Rearing, Language Acquisition
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Yamauchi, Lois A.; Ceppi, Andrea K. – Equity & Excellence in Education, 1998
Reviews American educational policy and indigenous language loss, the importance of language revitalization, and various models of language-immersion studies. A case study reports on Papahana Kaiapuni, the Hawaiian language immersion program established in 1987. This program is an example of a native community's efforts to revitalize its language.…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Child Language, Cultural Maintenance, Educational Policy