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Adrian Muscat – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
This paper discusses the role of the Catholic Church amongst the Maltese diaspora in Australia, and its impact on the maintenance of the Maltese language, a small community language spoken largely by the first generation of immigrants who left Malta after the Second World War. The study is based on interview data collected among three generations…
Descriptors: Church Role, Catholics, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Hunt, Jaime W.; Davis, Sacha E. – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2022
Family language policy research often neglects the dynamic nature of FLP over time. Here, we interview second generation members of migrant families for their recollections as heritage language learners and their experiences setting their own FLP towards their children. We use a transdisciplinary oral history/narrative methodology to discern…
Descriptors: Social Attitudes, Educational Policy, Language Planning, Migrants
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Jeongsoo Lim – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
As globalisation advances, an influx of loanwords has been seen in many languages in recent years. Japanese and Korean have similar grammatical features and many English-based loanwords. This study aims to clarify the difference in loanwords in Japanese and Korean adaptation, focusing on substituting alternative native lexicons through COVID-19.…
Descriptors: Linguistic Borrowing, Japanese, Korean, Native Language
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Cantone, Katja F. – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2022
The present study contributes to the field of bilingual and trilingual language acquisition by analysing four multilingual families. In each family, at least one parent is bilingual. Following research questions will be addressed: (A) "How relevant are the (amount of) input and the (kind of) parental language strategies for language…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Parent Influence
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Friedman, Debra A. – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2023
This paper analyses adolescent Ukrainian-Russian bilinguals' stances towards polylanguaging as evidenced in their talk about and use of "suržyk," a stigmatised polylingual practice that combines features from Ukrainian and Russian. Drawing from group interviews with 39 Ukrainian young people (aged 14-15), it uses Bakhtin's ("The…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Language Attitudes, Russian, Ukrainian
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Wang, Sixuan; Hatoss, Anikó – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2023
This study explores language practices of the Blang people and their perceptions of the changes in language ecology through the lens of chronotopes, hoping to better understand patterns of language shift in the Blang community in China. It takes a qualitative approach and draws on semi-structured interviews and ethnographic observations conducted…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Language Skill Attrition, Native Language, Second Language Learning
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Chinh Duc Nguyen; Thanh Nguyen Thao Tran; Nhu To Thi Pham; Mai Kha Ngoc Huynh – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
At a meso level, families have shown an imperative role in language policy in general and language education in particular. Predicated on the theories of family language policy and a transdisciplinary framework for L2 development, this study was undertaken to explore what three generations of a family did with the foreign languages they had…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Native Language, Second Language Learning, Family Relationship
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Jia Chen; Lin Wang; Youngsoon Kim – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
To examine the specific education challenges that minority language-speaking parents encounter in teaching their children heritage language, this study conducted in-depth interviews with ten Chinese immigrant parents in Korean-Chinese multicultural families. Textual analysis of the interviews revealed that 'One Parent One Language' is a natural…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Immigrants, Parent Attitudes, Teaching Methods
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Csanád Bodó; Noémi Fazakas – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2025
Current research on language revitalisation through education has highlighted the impact of the standard language ideology on minoritised language practices. This ideology is intertwined with emerging literacy practices in language revitalisation, leading to debates on what to teach minority language students, and how. The paper argues that…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Sociolinguistics, Language Attitudes, Standard Spoken Usage
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Bhim Lal Gautam – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
This paper outlines the different aspects of language contact in Newar, the ethnic indigenous language community of the Kathmandu valley, focusing on language use and attitudes. The data were collected in 2016-2017 with the help of survey questionnaire, key informant interviews, informal interviews, and various observations based on the…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Language Attitudes, Native Language, Second Languages
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Ndzotom Mbakop, Antoine Willy; Kamgang Ndada, Alex – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2021
Attempts to prevent language endangerment seem to have overlooked how families proceed in surrendering the language whose intergenerational transmission is their main responsibility. The present paper envisages language maintenance or loss from the vantage point that beliefs about language are the main referents of language use in the family in…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Language Usage, Correlation, Language Maintenance
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Bissoonauth, Anu – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2018
This paper investigated linguistic practices and choices of Australian children of Indian descent, an under-researched group, who are studying Hindi in primary education. Data was collected using a questionnaire and semi-structured interviews with sixty participants across 3 primary schools in the Sydney area. The findings revealed, as expected,…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Immigrants, Indians, Indo European Languages
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Mirvahedi, Seyed Hadi; Jafari, Rasoul – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2021
The study explores language maintenance and shift patterns from a family language policy perspective in Azerbaijani-Farsi bilingual families in the City of Zanjan, Iran. The city is the capital of Zanjan province which is surrounded by Azerbaijani, Kurdish, and Farsi speaking provinces giving it a specific demographic make-up to explore language…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Language Attitudes, Language Role, Language Minorities
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Obojska, Maria Antonina; Purkarthofer, Judith – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2018
This article examines, how agency is constructed by members of two transnational families living in Norway in biographically oriented interviews. We understand agency as realised on the intertwined levels of grammar and meta-agentive discourse. Reports of speakers' lived language experience and their experiences with family language policies are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Maintenance, Second Language Learning, Grammar
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Chiatoh, Blasius Agha-ah – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2014
In situations of extreme linguistic diversity, language promotion can be a very challenging undertaking. Decades of educational colonisation and foreign language dominance have produced inferiority complexes so that local or indigenous languages (Cameroonian mother tongues), because of their unofficial status, are perceived as liabilities rather…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries, Foreign Policy
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