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John W. Derks – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Do assimilationist restrictions on a minority language lead to greater national unity or a more rebellious minority population? Under what conditions might short-term backlash to language assimilation evolve into greater national unity in the long term? While much of the literature on ethnic politics implicitly treats language simply as an…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Cost Effectiveness, Acculturation, Political Influences
Maura Sullivan – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Indigenous people of the world fight to maintain our lifeways, culture, and more specifically our languages. Speakers have endured waves of violence and persecution and in the face of that still fought to preserve and bring back languages. Language loss has been observed by communities and linguists and each figures out ways to document and…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Cultural Maintenance, Language Maintenance, Language Minorities
Daniel Garzon – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The founding and inception of Coral Way's bilingual program marked the beginning of Miami's multilingual era, as well as the start of modern bilingual education in the U.S. As multilingual and multicultural Miami has evolved, bilingual programming has not remained a priority in the school district. This dissertation study examines how language…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Ethnography, Language Usage, Language Planning
Nancy J. Reyes – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The present study examined the acquisition of Spanish grammatical gender in 22 bilingual children (aged 5;0 to 13;5 years; Med=9;4 years; STD=2.3) who were born and raised in the United States and acquired Spanish as heritage speakers--that is, they learned Spanish, the minority language, in a home setting (Valdes, 2001). Each of the child…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Children, Spanish Speaking, Second Language Learning
Anongnard Nusartlert – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Minority languages in diglossic situations with a majority language face the danger of eventual loss of vitality. The first sign of this is when child language acquisition begins to erode. This dissertation investigates the intergenerational transmission of the Isan language, spoken in the Northeastern region of Thailand. While the Isan community…
Descriptors: Thai, Family Relationship, Language Maintenance, Mutual Intelligibility
Maria Fernanda Gavino – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This project explores how the variation in language experiences and attitudes that Mexican American Spanish heritage speaker bilinguals in the United States have affects their speech perception in both their languages. Heritage language bilinguals speak as a first language a minority language that they have cultural ties to (e.g., Spanish in the…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Mexican Americans, Bilingualism, Spanish Speaking
Olivia Elvira Davis Obeso – ProQuest LLC, 2024
In response to persistent inequities in the education of English learner-classified (EL-classified) students, scholars have increasingly called for the preparation of educators who are able to disrupt dominant hierarchies of language and knowledge in schools. One concept that has been developed to describe what it takes to disrupt these…
Descriptors: Ideology, Policy Formation, Educational Policy, English (Second Language)
Quynh Dam – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Bilingualism continues to increase with more than 350 different languages spoken in the United States, and more than 21% of people over the age of five (approximately 66 million people) speaking a language other than English at home (U.S. Census Bureau, 2020). Many bilingual children in the US speak a minority first language (L1) and English as…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Native Language, English (Second Language), Child Language
David Glennon Stanton – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This critical ethnography examines how the language ideologies of non-teaching staff (NTS) shape language practices in a bilingual PreK-8 school. Recent research on two-way bilingual education reveals the ways that the language ideologies of teachers, administrators, and parents can support the privileging of English in bilingual programs by…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Kerry Christine McCullough – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This dissertation investigates a typologically rare linguistic phenomenon found in Irish from three different perspectives: how it challenges phonological theory, how it is used by contemporary speakers, and how its written representation affects its acquisition. Initial consonant mutation (ICM), as it appears in the Celtic languages, is known to…
Descriptors: Phonology, Irish, Pronunciation, Language Research
Cookie R. Garrett – ProQuest LLC, 2023
For too long, the debate about Ebonics has been about the validity of the language and not about how the perception of the language impacts those that speak it. Ebonics has been considered inappropriate and inadequate as a language in institutions of higher education since the moment Black people in the United States were allowed access. However,…
Descriptors: College Students, Black Dialects, Language Usage, Blacks
Patricia Mabel Ferreyra – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This dissertation investigates shifts in the languages ideologies of four Latina English-Spanish dual language teacher candidates (DLTCs) over four quarters in a Teacher Education Program (TEP) and bilingual endorsement. The goal was to determine whether any ideological shifts aligned with the goals of Dual Language Bilingual Education (DLBE) or…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Hispanic American Students, Bilingualism, Teacher Education Programs
Kimberly Tsukiyama – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This qualitative study explores K-12 classroom teachers' perceptions and experiences in meeting the needs of language learners, specifically English language learners (ELLs) and dual-language learners (DLLs). Addressing two main research questions, it investigated how teachers' preservice learning and development prepared them for instructing…
Descriptors: Student Needs, Educational Needs, English Language Learners, Bilingual Students
Zaynab Amelia Gates – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Recent studies have projected that by the end of this century between half and up to 95% of the linguistic diversity in the world will disappear or become severely endangered. In the last four decades, the Latin American region, home to more than 500 Indigenous languages, has introduced intercultural bilingual education policies aimed at…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Latin Americans, Indigenous Populations, Indigenous Knowledge
Susan Hua – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This study fills a gap in the literature by exploring how Teochew graduates experience language maintenance while enrolled in higher education. Teochew is both an identity and less commonly spoken language that falls within the Chinese umbrella, and little is known about the Teochew population in the U.S as Asian American data is seldom…
Descriptors: Chinese Americans, Chinese, Native Language, Language Maintenance