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Memet Aktürk-Drake – Language Policy, 2024
This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the motivations that key policy documents have put forward as justifications for Sweden's mother-tongue instruction in immigrant and historical minority languages as a multicultural policy that has endured for nearly half a century. The diachronic development of these motivations is analysed in four…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Planning, Native Language, Native Language Instruction
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Oluwateniola Kupolati; Mojisola Shodipe – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2024
This study examines attitudes to language use and maintenance among Yorùbá-English bilinguals in the United States. Using the direct approach in language attitude research, it specifically interrogates attitudes toward using the heritage language (HL) in public domains and maintenance among subsequent generations. It also jointly examines the…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Native Language, Language Maintenance, African Languages
Suwilai Premsrirat, Editor; David Hirsh, Editor – Multilingual Matters, 2025
This book sheds light on the role of mother tongue-based multilingual education (MTB MLE) as a means to enhance educational outcomes, creating a space for non-dominant languages alongside more dominant regional, national and international languages. It brings together a number of underlying concerns including the maintenance of non-dominant…
Descriptors: Native Language, Language of Instruction, Multilingualism, Second Language Learning
Todd Michael Greco – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Immigrant parents are being challenged in several different ways to maintain their heritage language (HL) in the United States. Majority White, affluent communities are one of the many complex language ecologies that exist across the variety of U.S. societies. The research setting of this study, Southern California, is one of the wealthiest…
Descriptors: Native Language, Language Maintenance, Correlation, Community
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Chen, Emma – LEARNing Landscapes, 2021
The maintenance of heritage language is essential to immigrant children's linguistic, cultural, and social development. While there is a large body of literature on heritage language, how heritage language is practiced at home remains largely unknown. Engaging in an autobiographical narrative inquiry, I tell and retell stories of our pedagogical…
Descriptors: Native Language, Language Maintenance, Immigrants, Foreign Countries
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Dorota Lubinska – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2024
Informed by the conceptual-analytical framework of LPP and bilingual education policy, this study addresses a unique and under-researched case of heritage language education policy for complementary Polish State Schools abroad. These are Polish governmental educational offering aimed at Polish migrants and their descendants. Data consist of two…
Descriptors: Polish, Heritage Education, Goal Orientation, Bilingualism
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Van H. Tran; Sharynne McLeod; Sarah Verdon; Cen Wang – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
The aim of this study is to identify factors associated with Vietnamese-Australian parents' language use and attitudes towards home language maintenance. Vietnamese-Australian parents (n = 151) with children aged under 18 completed a survey regarding demographic factors and factors conceptualised by Spolsky's language policy theory: language…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Native Language, Language Maintenance, Parent Attitudes
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M. Raadha Krishnan; Sharon Sharmini – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Diasporic Indian languages in Malaysia are unique and distinguishable from their native variants. Past studies have indicated that dominant languages tend to overpower minority languages in multilingual communities, hence causing languages to shift. The aims of this study are to identify the language choices of Malaysian Tamils and to what extent…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Minorities, Minority Groups, Ethnic Groups
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Melanie R. Martin Loya; Hedda Meadan – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2024
Autistic children from heritage-language-speaking homes in the United States are a growing group that would benefit from tailored support that honors their linguistic heritage. Bilingual autistic adults share benefits of their bilingualism abilities and report childhood learning environments as necessary for facilitating language learning or…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Children, Bilingualism, Language Maintenance
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Smith, Sara A.; Li, Zhengjie – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
Research demonstrates strong associations between psychosocial factors (motivation, attitudes, beliefs), outside of class behavior, and second language (L2) learning, particularly reading achievement [Briggs and Walter 2016. "Read On! Extensive Reading and Young Second Language Learners' Motivation and Attitudes;" Masgoret and Gardner…
Descriptors: Native Language, Language Maintenance, Student Motivation, Reading Attitudes
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Grace A. Gomashie – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2025
This study explores language shift and maintenance of Indigenous languages in bilingual contact situations. It specifically examines how factors such as language attitudes favour and deter the use, maintenance and transmission of Nahuatl. Data on language attitudes were collected by means of interviews which covered the linguistic background,…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Language Maintenance, Indigenous Populations, Native Language
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Gogonas, Nikos; Maligkoudi, Christina – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
Complementary schools are an important research area of Second Language Acquisition study, involving issues of identity, linguistic socialization, second language acquisition, linguistic hegemony, etc. This article looks at the Czech Complementary School in Thessaloniki, whose main purpose is the transmission of the Czech language and culture to…
Descriptors: Mothers, Language Attitudes, Slavic Languages, Parent Child Relationship
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Anastasia Sorokina; Raymond Mugno – Language Learning Journal, 2024
In L1 attrition research, it's recognized that a previously acquired language can transform under the influence of a newly acquired one. However, the precise L1-L2 relationship is intricate and warrants further study. Some research suggest that L2 mastery might reduce L1 proficiency, while others show that both languages can be maintained. Age of…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Language Acquisition, Native Language, Second Language Learning
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Peterson, Shelley Stagg; Manitowabi, Yvette; Manitowabi, Jacinta – TESOL in Context, 2021
Two Anishnabek kindergarten teachers discuss four principles of Indigenous pedagogies in a project with a university researcher that created a context for children to engage in activities to learn their Anishnabek language and culture, and create positive identities. The university researcher sent a rabbit puppet named Niichii (Friend), who was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Native Language, Indigenous Populations, Native Language Instruction
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Lising, Loy – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2022
Filipino migrants are the fifth largest migrant community in Australia. Filipino migration to the country has been driven by socioeconomic and political factors in both the Philippines and Australia. Against this context, this paper investigates heritage language maintenance practices of Filipino migrant families by using a 2019 interview-based…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Migrants, Language Maintenance, Monolingualism
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