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Academic Achievement in a Language Revitalisation Context: A Study on the Influence of Language and Socioeconomic Factors
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Jennifer Altavilla; Paula Elosua; Guillermo Solano-Flores – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2023
We examined the influence of language and socioeconomic factors on academic achievement in the Basque Autonomous Community (BAC): a multilingual society with a recent history of language revitalisation. We analysed scores obtained by Grade 4 and Grade 10 students on a diagnostic mathematics test administered in either Basque or Spanish in the BAC.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Achievement, Language Maintenance, Native Language
Plurilingual and Pluricultural as the New Normal: An Examination of Language Use and Identity in the Multilingual City of Montreal
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Angelica Galante; John Wayne N. dela Cruz – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
As plurilingual/multilingual research advances, factors that contribute to or hinder individual's flexible language use are still underexplored. Questions such as "Why do some people identify as plurilingual and pluricultural while others do not?" and "What factors contribute to high levels of plurilingual and pluricultural…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Foreign Countries, Cultural Pluralism, Sociolinguistics
Language Competence Assessment in Minoritised Language Revitalisation Contexts. The Case of Basque
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Elosua, Paula; Peñalba, Antton – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2018
In minority language revitalisation contexts, the determination of proficiency in the minoritised language is a sensitive social issue that affects citizens regardless of their linguistic background. From a psychometric perspective, since the target population is heterogeneous, competence assessment instruments must ensure score validity for each…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Spanish, Languages, Foreign Countries
The Importance of Language Vocabulary and Language Usage for Sociocultural Adjustment among Indonesian Adolescents from Three Bilingual Ethnic Groups
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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