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Office of English Language Acquisition, US Department of Education, 2021
The U.S. government encourages the study of critical languages spoken in geographic areas of strategic importance to U.S. national security and the global economy through a variety of discretionary grants and scholarship programs. U.S. students are traditionally underrepresented in the study of these languages; however, many of the nation's K-12…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, National Security, Strategic Planning, Scholarships
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Warford, Mark K. – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2011
This paper discusses recent trends in language pedagogy that emphasize movement from a psycholinguistic to a more sociocultural view of language teaching and learning. Nourished primarily by sociocultural theory and Hinton's (2002, 2003) efforts to promote the stabilization of indigenous languages, the author presents Narrative Language…
Descriptors: Language Dominance, Linguistic Theory, Indigenous Populations, Sociolinguistics
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Lytra, Vally – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2012
In this paper, I draw on interview data to explore parents' constructions of language and identity in two London Turkish complementary schools. I examine parents' evaluative talk about standard Turkish, Cypriot-Turkish and other regional varieties of Turkish, the cultural values they attach to them and images of personhood these invoke. I…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Values, Personal Narratives, Turkish
Hossain, Tania; Pratt, Cornelius B. – New Horizons in Education, 2008
Background: An important issue in the discourse on language rights is the degree to which they influence the development and implementation of language policies or perpetuate inequalities in many language situations. Skutnabb-Kangas (1996, 2002a, 2002b) and May (2000), for example, have argued that language rights offer a reasonable framework for…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Language Dominance, Language Planning, Equal Education
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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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Ritchie, Annabelle – Babel, 2004
Language ecology, a term developed by Haugen (2001), describes the relationship between languages and the environment in which they exist; that is, how they grow, change, interact and adapt in a Darwinian-like quest for survival. Of the 6000 or so languages in existence today, some are spoken by vast numbers of people, but others are used by very…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cultural Pluralism, Sociolinguistics, Language Maintenance
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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
Cho, Grace; Shin, Fay; Krashen, Stephen – Multicultural Education, 2004
Heritage languages (HL) are language spoken by the children of immigrants or by those who immigrated to a country when young. The purpose of this article is to briefly review what is known about heritage language development over time and to identify some gaps in people's knowledge. In this article, the authors consider three aspects: how much HL…
Descriptors: Immigrants, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Heritage Education
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Mougeon, Raymond; And Others – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1984
Patterns of French acquisition, use, and proficiency among Ontario anglophones are examined, and their implications for changes in both French native language instruction and French second language instruction to support the maintenance and use of French are examined. (MSE)
Descriptors: Dialects, Foreign Countries, French, Language Acquisition
City Univ. of New York, NY. Centro de Estudios Puertorriguenos. – 1980
Research in a Puerto Rican community in New York City was undertaken to explore the language climate in that community, which included the linguistic forms in use, their distribution and functions in daily life, community members' attitudes toward language, and the way in which language phenomena are influenced by various social factors. An…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Cultural Influences, English, Hispanic Americans
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Arenov, M. M.; Kalmykov, S. K. – Russian Education and Society, 1997
Summarizes the results of a survey documenting language use among the rural and urban populations, educational levels, occupations, and ethnic groups of Kazakhstan. Reveals that efforts to promote Kazakh over Russian have largely failed. Includes a wealth of statistical information on groups and activities within Kazakhstan. (MJP)
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethnic Groups