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Jennifer Sou; Leah Pappas; Khairunnisa; Gary Holton – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2023
Language documentation is increasingly seen as a collaborative process, engaging community members as active participants. Collaborative research produces better documentation that is valuable for both the academic community and the speakers. However, in many communities, speakers and language advocates lack the skills necessary to fully engage in…
Descriptors: Documentation, Language Research, Language Maintenance, Capacity Building
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Vázquez-Fernández, Martín – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2022
A critical approach to "neofalante," newspeakers of Galician and their theoretical framework, is presented. In order to do so, we take as a case study some of its documented cases as a popular notion, its transformations, and its mobilisation in the planning discourse, along with its construction and evolution as an analytical category…
Descriptors: Romance Languages, Case Studies, Language Planning, Language Attitudes
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Simone De Cia – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2021
Italy is characterized by a considerable amount of language variation. Only a few spoken vernaculars enjoy institutional support and are officially recognized as minority languages. Among these, Friulian is one of the largest in terms of number of speakers. In the past decade, the assessment of Friulian language vitality has yielded discordant…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Language Research, Documentation, Sociolinguistics
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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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Ranran Liu – Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects, 2021
The chapter is a reflective discussion of an educator who has made efforts to incorporate heritage language practice in child play in the real-world everyday setting of early childhood education. This combination between heritage language and child play has hardly been explored before in the relevant discourse. As children in Australia possess…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Native Language, Language Maintenance, Teaching Methods
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Ó Murchadha, Noel; Ó hIfearnáin, Tadhg – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2018
Language revival often retains founding overt beliefs rooted in an ideological commitment to a specific language because of its role as the authentic, legitimate cultural vehicle of a distinct people. Revival is thus the reinstatement of cultural distinctiveness based on traditional language. Revivalists have afforded traditional language…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Irish, Language Maintenance, Native Speakers
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Lolja, Saimir A. – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2019
In the beginning, humans had a tongue ("gjuhën," "Shqip"). Then, they could or couldn't let go of the tongue ("len…gjuhën," Shqip). Albanian natural tongue (Shqip) implies the use of the tongue in the mouth for articulating ("shqiptoj," Shqip) words. The eternity of Shqip (Speech) is in its words that are…
Descriptors: Indo European Languages, Language Maintenance, Human Body, Articulation (Speech)
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Snoddon, Kristin – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2018
This paper discusses issues of language revitalization and linguistic prescriptivism related to the teaching of American Sign Language (ASL) in Canada. I describe the current and historical context for ASL teaching, including the increase in ASL course offerings at some postsecondary institutions, and discuss findings related to challenges in…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Sign Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Hill, Joseph C. – Sign Language Studies, 2017
The article discusses the importance of sociohistorical context which is the foundation of variation studies in sociolinguistics. The studies on variation in spoken and signed languages are reviewed with the discussion of geographical and social aspects which are treated as external factors in the formation and maintenance of dialects and those…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Language Variation, Black Dialects, Sign Language
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Banda, Felix; Jimaima, Hambaba – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2017
The article illustrates a sociolinguistics of language vitality that accounts for "minority" and unofficial languages across multiple localities in dispersed communities of multilingual speakers of Zambia where only seven out of seventy-three indigenous languages have been designated official and "zoned" for use in specified…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Language Maintenance, African Languages, Foreign Countries
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Lhagyal, Dak – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2021
Situated in the contemporary contexts of Tibetan language movement and development in the education field, this article draws attention to the interactional nature of state-society relations and dynamic language ideologies in Tibet. It focuses on the ideological process underlying the discursive sensemaking patterns in official remarks and Tibetan…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sino Tibetan Languages, Language Attitudes, Government Role
Baker, Colin; Wright, Wayne E. – Multilingual Matters, 2021
The seventh edition of this bestselling textbook has been extensively revised and updated to provide a comprehensive and accessible introduction to bilingualism and bilingual education in an ever-changing world. Written in a compact and clear style, the book covers all the crucial issues in bilingualism and multilingualism at individual, group and…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Foundations of Education, Bilingualism, Deafness
Simpson, Jane; Wigglesworth, Gillian – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2019
The diversity of language in Australia in pre-invasion times is well attested, with at least 300 distinct languages being spoken along with many dialects. At that time, many Indigenous people were multilingual, often speaking at least four languages. Today many of these languages have been lost, with fewer than 15 being learned by children as a…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Nonstandard Dialects, Indigenous Populations, Foreign Countries
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Schwarzer, David; Acosta, Christian – Journal of Multilingual Education Research, 2014
The purpose of this article is to re-conceptualize the role of the monolingual teacher in mainstream K-12 classrooms in the United States who work with students who are mostly multilingual and transnational. The proposed role for monolingual teachers is to incorporate at least some of the resources available in students' native languages, even if…
Descriptors: Learning Activities, Multilingualism, Monolingualism, Second Language Learning
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Tiwana, Ravneet Kaur – Online Submission, 2013
Punjabi heritage language maintenance and development are rooted in community, identity, and, for many, faith. Various opportunities are available for maintaining linguistic ties to Punjabi (also spelled Panjabi) and for developing proficiency in the Punjabi language. They range from community-based to federally funded programs, available in…
Descriptors: Indo European Languages, Language Maintenance, Heritage Education, Religious Cultural Groups
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