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Ka Long Tung – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2025
This paper explores the reasons for migrant new speakers of Welsh in Cardiff to learn the language given that English is the main communication medium in everyday life. From interviews with 10 migrant new speakers of Welsh and their language diaries, this paper shows that migrant new speakers were interested in accessing the Welsh culture and…
Descriptors: Welsh, Language Minorities, Immigrants, Second Language Learning
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Hornsby, Michael – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2017
This article examines some of the linguistic and ideological tensions resulting from language shift and subsequent revitalisation, using Breton as a case study. As a result of the opening up of ideological spaces in discourses on what it means to be a Breton speaker in the twenty-first century, the appearance of so-called "new" speakers…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Case Studies, Language Usage, Indo European Languages
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Cunningham, Clare – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2020
Despite research evidence showing that home language maintenance is important both individually and societally, the task of managing and encouraging it has traditionally fallen to minority language communities and families, tending to lead to inter-generational language shift. Teachers' discourses about responsibilities for language maintenance,…
Descriptors: Native Language, Language Maintenance, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
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Price, Abigail Ruth; Tamburelli, Marco – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2016
The education system has played a crucial role in Welsh language maintenance, with Welsh-medium education providing a central locus of language transmission. However, language transmission through education is not without pitfalls. This paper discusses the impact of top-down minority language transmission and the growing issue of formal domain…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Language Maintenance, Welsh, Role of Education
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Hickey, Tina M.; Stenson, Nancy – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2016
Hickey's (1991) article ["Leisure reading in a second language: An experiment with audio tapes." "Language, Culture and Curriculum," 4(2), 119-131. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07908319109525098] reported the benefits of audio-support for L2 reading of real books, showing gains in fluency and motivation among…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Irish, Language Maintenance
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du Plessis, Colleen; du Plessis, Theodorus – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2015
Disparities emanating from South Africa's apartheid history still pose a number of challenges to the country, especially in education. Since the transition to democracy in 1994, the prescribed government school curriculum has undergone several revisions in an endeavour to set standards and provide instruction of a high quality. On the language…
Descriptors: Official Languages, Educational Policy, Grade 12, High School Students
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Szecsi, Tunde; Szilagyi, Janka – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2012
The goal of this research was to explore thoroughly the perceptions of dispersed immigrant professionals and their bilingual and bicultural children regarding the place of new media technology in their lives. Open-ended interviewing and autoethnography were used to explore families' perceptions of the role of media technology in their children's…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Language Maintenance, Early Intervention, Interviews
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Kim, Catherine E.; Pyun, Danielle O. – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2014
How heritage learners successfully maintain their heritage language (HL) and literacy is a significant topic of discussion in the field of bilingual education. This study examines what factors are most closely associated with literacy competence by inspecting Korean heritage learners' language and literacy practice patterns and their literacy…
Descriptors: Korean, Language Maintenance, Literacy, Writing Evaluation
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Zhang, Donghui; Slaughter-Defoe, Diana T. – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2009
This qualitative study investigates attitudes toward heritage language (HL) maintenance among Chinese immigrant parents and their second-generation children. Specific attention is given to exploring (1) what attitudes are held by the Chinese parents and children toward Chinese language maintenance in the USA, (2) what efforts are engaged in by the…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Language Attitudes, Mandarin Chinese, Immigrants
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Farruggio, Pete – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2009
Latino immigrant parents were interviewed in a transnational urban community in California after passage of a law intended to abolish bilingual education (BE). Approximately half had English learner children in bilingual classes; the others in English-only classes. Guided by a macrocultural psychological interpretive framework, the study used a…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Foreign Policy, Immigrants, Bilingualism
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Sehlaoui, Abdelilah Salim – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2008
Over 3 million people speak Arabic as a first language in the USA and almost all of them are native-born Americans. Efforts in recent decades to provide support, at both local and governmental levels, for the teaching of Arabic as a heritage language are described. Reflecting on the development of his own personal literacies and his teaching…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Language Maintenance, Second Language Instruction, Bilingualism
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Cullen, Joy L.; Haworth, Penelope Anne; Simmons, Heather; Schimanski, Liz; McGarva, Pam; Kennedy, Eileen – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2009
This article discusses six teaching strategies identified by teacher-researchers as supporting their goal to improve learning and teaching for all children in the intercultural setting of a kindergarten in "Aotearoa" New Zealand. As a Centre of Innovation, the kindergarten received government funding for a 3-year action research project…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Action Research, Early Childhood Education, Bilingual Education
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Lee, Jin Sook – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2002
Examines the role of cultural identity and heritage language maintenance among the lives of 40 second-generation Korean-American university students in the United States. Analyses of questionnaire data showed that most second generation Korean-Americans achieve some level of Korean proficiency, but they overwhelmingly agree that it is not enough.…
Descriptors: College Students, Heritage Education, Higher Education, Korean Americans
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Duquette, Georges – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2001
Explores language dominance and cultural hegemony within the Franco-Ontarian community in Canada. Looks at within-group dominance, ethnolinguistic vitality, and ethnocultural equity, presenting a complex composite portrait of this minority language community. Suggests it is under the dominating influence of the majority English population, but…
Descriptors: English, Foreign Countries, French, French Canadians
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Tse, Lucy – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2001
Reports on a study involving a group of 10 U.S-raised adults who have managed to attain relatively high levels of heritage language (HL) literacy (in Spanish, Cantonese, and Japanese), defying the typical patterns of intergenerational language shift. In-depth retrospective interviews were used to explore the types of access to HL print and the HL…
Descriptors: Adults, Cantonese, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
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