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Daugaard, Line Møller – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2022
This article focuses on mother tongue teaching in Arabic, Dari, Pashto and Somali as it is practised in a linguistically diverse primary school in Denmark. The article draws on a linguistic ethnography of language teaching across the curriculum, and the analysis focuses on three mother tongue teachers. Drawing on classroom observations and…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Native Language Instruction, Arabic, Indo European Languages
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Rosendal, Tove – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2009
Rwanda has experienced major changes during the last decade due to the genocide in 1994. After the civil war, in addition to establishing political and economical stability, peace and reconciliation, the government was faced with the return of refugees from neighbouring, mostly English-speaking, countries. The new socio-demographic conditions…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Language Usage, Official Languages, War
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Hatoss, Aniko; Sheely, Terry – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2009
This paper reports the results of a sociolinguistic survey-based study of the Sudanese community in a regional settlement in Australia. The context of this study represents a distinctive language contact setting with a unique combination of social, cultural and demographic factors. The study aimed to explore attitudes, perceptions and the actual…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Linguistic Borrowing, Language Usage, African Languages