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Polina Vorobeva – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Research on multilingualism in the home has approached the family as a fixed unit thus neglecting the dynamic view of the family and its intersection with family language practices. The present study aims to address this gap by focusing on Russian-speaking mothers in Finland who have raised their children bilingually in single-parent as well as in…
Descriptors: Family Relationship, Multilingualism, Native Language, Second Language Learning
Uma Maheshwari Chimirala – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
The Indian Constitution and the Directive Principles for State Policy (DPSP) aspire that individual states with Indigenous Tribal Minority (ITM) populations take special care to promote education and economic interests of the ITM communities. Despite Art 350(a) which explicitly guarantees (only) the ITM child education in its mother-tongue, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Indigenous Populations, Minority Groups
Chun Lai; Mingyue Gu; Fang Gao; JoJo Wan Shan Yung – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2022
Despite evidence of the acculturation benefits of social media engagement with mainstream culture, there is limited understanding of what motivates or demotivates ethnic minorities' social media engagement with mainstream culture. Adopting the theoretical construct of investment, this study interviewed 31 ethnic minority secondary school students…
Descriptors: Ethnic Groups, Minority Groups, Social Media, Secondary School Students
Li, Jia; Ai, Bin; Zhang, Jie – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2020
This case study investigates how a cohort of Myanmar ethnic minority students' language ideologies shape their Putonghua learning and educational trajectories at government schools and Chinese supplementary schools in the borderland next to China. The data were collected through semi-structured interviews and from the participants' autobiographies…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Ethnic Groups, Minority Groups, Mandarin Chinese
Sari, Betty Tjipta; Chasiotis, Athanasios; van de Vijver, Fons J. R.; Bender, Michael – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2020
We investigated how the knowledge and usage of two languages relate to sociocultural adjustment in bilingual adolescent samples from three ethnic groups in Indonesia (214 Javanese, 108 Toraja, and 195 Chinese adolescents; 272 females; M[subscript age] = 14.33 years). We tested a model specifying that the vocabulary knowledge of each language…
Descriptors: Asians, Ethnic Groups, Language Usage, Sociocultural Patterns
He, Agnes Weiyun – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2016
This study examines features of communication in American households where Chinese is used as a heritage language against the backdrop of global migration and technological advancement. It aims to elucidate how meaning emerges and evolves through repeated and varied performance by multiple participants over time, through mundane and iterative…
Descriptors: Chinese Americans, Immigrants, Chinese, Language Usage
Shin, Hyunjung – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2015
Drawing from a 2.4-year ethnography with Korean Early Study Abroad (ESA, pre-college-aged study abroad) students in Toronto high schools, I examine the intersections among race, class, language, culture and citizenship (including immigrant status) in the identity construction and language learning of these students. Conceptualising race as a…
Descriptors: Racial Bias, Global Approach, Race, Minority Groups
Prevoo, Marielle J. L.; Mesman, Judi; Van Ijzendoorn, Marinus H.; Pieper, Suzanne – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2011
This study investigated the development and correlates of language use in bilingual Turkish-Dutch immigrant mothers and their toddlers. In this short-term longitudinal study 87 mothers completed questionnaires on their Dutch and Turkish language use, ethnic identity and use of childcare. Observational data were obtained for maternal supportive…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Mothers, Toddlers, Questionnaires
Mikolic, Vesna – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2010
The paper focuses on bilingualism among the Slovene majority in Slovene Istria approximately 50 years after the Italian community living there were granted official minority status. This empirical research shows a high level of Slovene-Italian bilingualism in the observed population. It reveals that a high level of communicative competence in one…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Infants, Slavic Languages, Communicative Competence (Languages)
Draper, John Charles – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2010
This paper reports on the use of ethnolinguistic vitality as the framework for a sociolinguistic survey measuring attitudes to multilingualism and reporting on the experiences of a community of Northeast Thailand (Isan) that forms part of Thailand's largest minority. The aim of the study was to examine the experiences of participants in a…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Foreign Countries, Literacy, Second Language Learning
Liddicoat, Anthony J. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2009
Australia's language and multicultural policies have constructed the intercultural dimension of Australian identity and practice in a number of different ways relating to different community groups. This paper traces the evolution of multicultural policy from the 1970s until the present through the main national policy documents in order to…
Descriptors: Public Policy, Ideology, Cultural Pluralism, Foreign Countries
Gao, F. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2009
Language is not only a method of communication, but also a mechanism of power. The ethnographic research reported in this article documents how a group of Korean students, who are participating in a bilingual Korean school in Northeast China, construct their language attitude and practice. Research findings indicate that the Korean students value…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Mandarin Chinese, Bilingualism

Cummins, J. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1980
Examines current assumptions regarding psychological assessment of immigrant and minority language children. It is argued that immigrant children usually acquire fluent surface skills in their second language sooner than conceptual and literacy skills. Potential skills of current assessment techniques are discussed with recommendations for…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Children, Cognitive Processes, Immigrants

Edwards, John – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1988
Discusses the role of the school in supporting minority group identity, particularly through language maintenance programs. While language shift may not be countered by schools acting in isolation, identity can be maintained through periods of language shift. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Ethnicity, Language Attitudes, Language Maintenance

Jorgensen, J. Normann – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1984
Presents an investigation of 100 immigrants students in Copenhagen to ascertain their relations to the ethnic boundary between "Danish-ness" and "non-Danishness" and their patterns of communication in conversation with an adult native speaker of Danish. Implications for the education of immigrant students and for curricula are…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Communicative Competence (Languages), Curriculum Development, Danish
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