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Rhian Hodges – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
The Welsh Government's Welsh language strategy, Cymraeg: A million Welsh speakers [Welsh Government. 2017a. "Cymraeg 2050: A Million Welsh Speakers." Cardiff: Welsh Government], aims to increase the numbers of Welsh speakers to one million by 2050. The creation of new Welsh speakers and immersion education form an integral part of the…
Descriptors: Welsh, Language Usage, Sociolinguistics, Secondary School Students
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Carmit Altman; Zhanna Burstein-Feldman; Sveta Fichman; Sharon Armon-Lotem; Susan Joffe; Joel Walters – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Israel's population includes over a million Russian-speaking immigrants and more than 300,000 native English speakers. These groups differ in social integration and in the status of their heritage languages in Israel. We compared children's and parents' perceptions of children's identities, language abilities, and language preferences among…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Language Proficiency, Hebrew, Russian
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Kroon, Sjaak; Kurvers, Jeanne – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2020
This paper investigates language practices, language attitudes and identity belongings of East Timorese in the Netherlands. Data were gathered through a limited orally conducted sociolinguistic questionnaire and two in-depth interviews on the sociolinguistic trajectories of our participants. The questionnaire shows that second-generation East…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Usage, Language Attitudes, Immigrants
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Gogonas, Nikos; Michail, Domna – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2015
The focus of this paper is on the relationship between Albanian speakers' ethnolinguistic vitality (EV) perceptions and their language maintenance, language use and choice patterns. A subjective EV questionnaire, and a language usage questionnaire capturing domain-specific language use was completed by 200 Albanian immigrants of first and second…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Correlation, Language Maintenance, Questionnaires