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Boge, Jeanne – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2020
This is an article on the relation between the market for Sámi language in a contemporary bilingual Norwegian nursing home and the Norwegian history of the Sámi language. Bilingual nursing homes are supposed to invest in the Sámi language and thus increase its value. It was, however, difficult to identify investments in the Sámi language in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Minorities, Bilingualism, Language Usage
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Lie, Suzanne; Wold, Astri Heen – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1991
In a Norwegian study of fifth grade linguistic minority (LM) children's comprehension of the language of instruction, it was found that some LM children still have serious comprehension problems in spite of being born and schooled in Norway. Teachers correctly expected the LM children to comprehend less than their Norwegian classmates. (33…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Language of Instruction, Language Proficiency
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Aikio, Marjut – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1986
Language use among linguistic minorities of the Northern Calotte (areas of Norway, Sweden, and Finland that lie above the Arctic Circle) is reviewed from the perspective of history and ecology of language. Two case studies examining language shift in these areas, where Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, and Sami are spoken, are also considered.…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Community Size, Descriptive Linguistics, Family History