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Murray, Clíona; Lynch, Andrea; Flynn, Niamh; Davitt, Emer – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2023
In newly multilingual communities, where the language of education can no longer be assumed to be the home language of students, debates around language education policy can reflect broader sociocultural and political assumptions. As Ireland has become increasingly diverse in recent decades, the core compulsory status of the Irish language has…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Minorities, Native Language Instruction, Irish
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Koshiba, Kenta – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2022
This paper explores how the discourse of Japanese ethnolinguistic identity differently affected three youths in a heritage language class in Australia. Based on a case study involving these informants, I show how the discourse was contested, reproduced, and appropriated. More specifically, I show how language was disaligned from ethnicity and…
Descriptors: Heritage Education, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
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Erduyan, Isil – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2022
Discourse and identity practices in heritage language contexts have received significant attention in applied linguistics in recent years. One line of research in this realm has sought to adopt scales, the spatiotemporal niches within which social identification and learning take place. This article problematizes modernity as a scale of its own…
Descriptors: Turkish, Heritage Education, Self Concept, High School Students
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Tibor Toró; Erika Keszeg – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2024
There is a sizable Hungarian minority living in Romania, who have the right to learn in their mother-tongue. While most Hungarians are enrolled in Hungarian medium education, there is a small number of families who opt for mainstream Romanian monolingual schools. According to the Law, the latter group can choose to learn Hungarian in an optional…
Descriptors: Hungarian, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Decision Making
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Phyak, Prem – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2021
This paper analyzes Nepal's language education policy from a decolonial perspective, examining how rights-based (neo)liberal ideologies and policies do not necessarily contribute to creating space, either ideological or implementational (Hornberger, 2005), for Indigenous languages in education. Drawing on the theory of "decoloniality"…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Ethnography, Teaching Methods, Educational Policy
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Mose, Peter N.; Kaschula, Russell H. – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2019
The language in education policy in Kenya recommends mother tongue education in primary school learning. The purpose of this study was to explore the development of mother tongues as academic languages at the lower primary section in which the languages are supposed to be used. The exploration was on the functions they play in classroom…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Native Language Instruction, Language of Instruction, African Languages
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Te Huia, Awanui – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2017
Substantially less is known about the motivations of indigenous heritage language learners than the motivations of learners of colonial languages. This study explores the motivations of Maori indigenous New Zealanders and the identity-related motivations they have for learning their heritage language. Interviews with 19 Maori language learners…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Learning Motivation, Pacific Islanders, Ethnic Groups
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Showstack, Rachel E. – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2017
Drawing on linguistic anthropological notions of language ideologies and sociolinguistic approaches to stance, this study examines the meaning-making resources through which Spanish heritage language (HL) learners orient toward ideological perspectives on language value and linguistic expertise in classroom interaction. Part of a larger…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Classroom Communication, Teaching Methods, Heritage Education
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Heidemann, Kai A. – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2014
This article explores the mobilization dynamics of a school-based minority language revitalization initiative in the French Basque Country, known as the Ikastola Movement. Bringing the study of language revitalization into dialogue with social movement theory, I discuss how the solidarity of Basque language activists was influenced by state-level…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Minorities, Language Maintenance, Second Languages
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Guardado, Martin – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2010
This article, part of a larger study, examines three middle-class, Hispanic Canadian families' conceptualizations of language, culture, and identity. Via an analysis of interview data, the findings indicate that the parents assigned diverse meanings to heritage language development (HLD) and held high expectations for their children's formation of…
Descriptors: Heritage Education, Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries, Middle Class
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Pita, Marianne D.; Utakis, Sharon – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2002
Suggests the increasingly transnational character of many immigrant communities necessitates changes in educational policy. Using the Dominican neighborhoods in New York City, examines the economic, political, social, cultural, and linguistic evidence of the transnationalism of this community. A case is made for bilingual, bicultural programs that…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Educational Policy, English (Second Language), Immigrants