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Haomin Zhang; Zhen Hu; Tuoxiong Wang; Jie Sun – Language and Education, 2024
Given that input-based language and literacy environments provide socioculturally-enriched contexts for bilingual and biliteracy acquisition, the current study aims to explore the contribution of early input in various sociocultural contexts to later biliteracy development among ­college-level Chinese heritage language (CHL) students. A group of…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Linguistic Input, Chinese, Second Language Learning
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Owodally, Ambarin Mooznah Auleear – Language and Education, 2014
The present study was carried out in the context of the recent (2012) introduction of Kreol in the primary school curriculum in Mauritius. The time-tabling of Kreol as an optional subject offered at the same time as the other existing ancestral languages, institutionalised Kreol as an ancestral language, despite its status as a national language.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Urdu, Cultural Pluralism, Textbooks
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de la Piedra, Maria Teresa – Language and Education, 2011
This paper presents part of the results of a qualitative study about literacy practices of Mexican transnational mothers, who live in and frequently cross the border between two countries (the United States and Mexico). Drawing on sociocultural approaches to literacy and literature on transnationalism, I analyze one practice: "leer…
Descriptors: Mothers, Daughters, Foreign Countries, Literacy