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Oriyama, Kaya – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2012
When linguistic minority parents wish to develop and maintain their children's literacy in heritage languages (HLs), what can they do to help? How and to what extent do the individual contexts of language use and background affect the development and maintenance of HL literacy, compared with the sociocultural context of community? What are the…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Community Schools, Literacy, Bilingualism
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Smolicz, Jerzy J.; Secombe, Margaret J.; Hudson, Dorothy M. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2001
Investigates the relative significance of family collectivism and minority languages as possible core values among four ethnic groups in the context of Australian society in which the English language and social structures of the majority group are dominant. Respondents were young adults drawn from Greek, Latvian, Italian, and Chinese-Australian…
Descriptors: English, Ethnic Groups, Family Structure, Foreign Countries
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Gibbons, John; Lascar, Elizabeth – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1998
To discover the extent to which academic register develops in language-minority children, it is important to describe the academic register of the minority language and then to develop instruments to measure its development. This article looks at the means that were developed to accomplish these two tasks of description and instrument development…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, English, Evaluation Methods, Foreign Countries