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Download full textJane Vidrine – Journal of Folklore and Education, 2023
Louisiana Francophone cultural resurgence has been a half-century-long grassroots process fueled by South Louisiana people who believe it is important to maintain aspects of their culture that connect them to their past and make them proud of who they are: Louisiana Cajuns and Creoles. Teaching Louisiana French cultural traditions in the K-12…
Descriptors: Cultural Background, Native Language, Creoles, Heritage Education
Direct linkSimpson, 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
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
Davids, Melva P. – Online Submission, 2013
This paper seeks to examine the role of the official and "de facto" languages of anglophone Caribbean islands such as Jamaica. In reflecting on their statuses as users of language, tertiary level students registered in a Year One Performing Arts Program provided much insights into the interplay of both languages that coexist in society…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Creoles, Native Language
Muysken, Pieter – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2013
This paper sketches a comprehensive framework for modeling and interpreting language contact phenomena, with speakers' bilingual strategies in specific scenarios of language contact as its point of departure. Bilingual strategies are conditioned by social factors, processing constraints of speakers' bilingual competence, and perceived…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Social Influences, Native Language, Language Processing
Zeegers, Margaret; Muir, Wayne; Lin, Zheng – Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 2003
This article describes Indigenous Australian languages as having a history of pejoration dating from colonial times, which has masked the richness and complexity of mother tongues (and more recently developed kriols) of large numbers of Indigenous Australians. The paper rejects deficit theory representations of these languages as being inferior to…
Descriptors: Native Language, Indigenous Populations, Languages, Nonstandard Dialects
