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Huang, Jing – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2021
This paper examines diasporic language ecology based on a sociolinguistic study of a Chinese complementary school (CCS) in Birmingham, England. The study applies a historical perspective to investigate local multilingual practices in relation to language ideology and identity. The discussion in this paper draws on "heteroglossia" to…
Descriptors: Chinese, Community Schools, Heritage Education, Multilingualism

Ylanne-McEwen, Virpi – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1993
This study investigated complimenting behavior in three language varieties, British English, Finnish, and the interlanguage of Finish Learners of English. It found that compliments in Finnish tended to be longer and more syntactic than in English and that Finnish learners of English demonstrated appropriate complimenting behavior in English,…
Descriptors: Adults, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences, English

Evans, Mary – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1987
Describes one aspect of a Welsh/English bilingual child being raised in England. The father is a native speaker of Welsh, and the mother has learned Welsh in order to speak it to her son. The father accommodates both the mother's and the child's linguistic errors. Areas of accommodation are identified and possible reasons discussed. (Author/LMO)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, English, Error Analysis (Language)