This study explores Tibetan students' L2 and L3 motivational systems and their interactions based on the framework of the L2 Motivational Self-System proposed by Dörnyei. Five hundred fifty-two participants were invited to respond to a questionnaire regarding their Chinese (L2) and English (L3) motivational selves, learning experiences and…

Bilingual education policy in Liangshan, China, has been implemented since the end of the 1970s using two bilingual school models. This study examines how mainstream and bilingual education are correlated with the Yi population's social attachment to the larger social system, and their cultural attachment to ethnocultural maintenance. The…

The Italian language in the ethnically mixed coastal area of Slovenia is an official language, regulated by the principle of ethnic autochthony, which recognizes the rights of linguistic minorities regardless of their number of speakers. Slovenia has been always very sensitive toward its two national minorities (Italian and Hungarian) and set up…

This article offers a critical appraisal of the role played by cultural identity in intercultural bilingual Arabic-Hebrew schools in Israel. While engineered as oases of interculturalism amidst a life of ethnic segregation, such schools ultimately confront serious difficulties in escaping the constraints of identity politics and representation.…

Compared with other countries in Asia, Japan is far behind in terms of introducing and delivering bilingual education, let alone effective immersion programmes. In order to make its citizens more bilingual, Japan has been introducing innovative measures including the implementation of the teaching of English in elementary education and a new…

Yingjiang is a frontier county in southwest Yunnan, China, with distinctive ethnic and cultural diversity. Bilingual education (BE) has been a prominent feature in Yingjiang since the 1950s due to supportive policies and measures at various levels. BE in Yingjiang developed so well in the 1980s that a bilingual school was awarded the title of…

This bulletin presents news and opinions of the staff of Project Brave of the St. John Valley in northern Maine. This issue presents a description of the bilingual program in progress there; many photographs of the region and Project are included. The text is in French and English. (SK)

This bulletin presents news and opinions of the staff of Project Brave of the St. John Valley in northern Maine. This issue contains selections of French prose and poetry written within the cultural context of the St. John Valley around Madawaska. (SK)

This bulletin presents news and opinions of the staff of Project Brave of the St. John Valley in northern Maine. Included in this issue are names of members of the Project's Board of Directors and Advisory Council, news of a matched-guise language survey, a report on culture in a child's world, and photographs of activities at Project Brave. The…

This bulletin presents news and opinions of the staff of Project Brave of the St. John Valley in northern Maine. This issue contains geographical and historical information concerning the region of the St. John Valley and along the Acadian Trail. Included are many photographs of that area. (SK)

Changing social context and changing curriculum have brought the parochial and the public schools closer together. (MM)

This bulletin presents news and opinions of the staff of Project Brave of the St. John Valley in northern Maine. This issue contains many short selections in French, some in poetry and others in prose, written under the cultural influences of life around Madawaska. (SK)

This bulletin presents news and opinions of the staff of Project Brave of the St. John Valley in northern Maine. Included in this issue are a comment on education, a poem in French, a discussion of students' tools for a learning career, and many photographs of activities at Project Brave. (SK)

One of America's oldest and most distinctive ethnic minorities are the Cajuns of Louisiana. Cajuns are typically Roman Catholic, rural, emphasize kinship relations, and speak or understand both English and Louisiana French. The schools attended by Cajuns are reasonably well-supported and dynamic. (JN)

This bulletin presents news and opinions from the staff of Project Brave of the St. John Valley in northern Maine. Included in this issue are a conference report, poems in French, letters from people who attended the North American French Bilingual Conference, and photographs of activities at Project Brave. The text is in English and French. (SK)