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Montalvo, Lucy A. – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Dual language (DL) schools provide literacy in students' native languages; however, it is unknown if there is a focus on oral language (OL) development, an essential component for emergent bilinguals'(EB) literacy development. The purpose of this mixed-methods case study is to understand what DL teachers in Virginia know about OL instruction when…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Bilingual Education Programs, Bilingualism, Literacy Education
Tseng, Amelia – Applied Linguistics, 2021
This case study examines the consequences of community language attitudes and ideologies on later-generation heritage speakers through qualitative sociolinguistic and discourse analysis of 22 interviews with first- and second-generation Latinos of diverse backgrounds in a major US metropolitan area. The findings show that imposed deficit…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Immigrants, Positive Attitudes, Spanish
Obojska, Maria Antonina; Purkarthofer, Judith – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2018
This article examines, how agency is constructed by members of two transnational families living in Norway in biographically oriented interviews. We understand agency as realised on the intertwined levels of grammar and meta-agentive discourse. Reports of speakers' lived language experience and their experiences with family language policies are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Maintenance, Second Language Learning, Grammar
Emily Voegler – ProQuest LLC, 2021
With an increase in multilingual learners in U.S. public schools, there is an imperative to understand the language practices, ideologies, and pedagogies within culturally and linguistically sustaining heritage language programs inside schools. Building on principles of translanguaging as a theory of practical language (Garcia, 2009; Li, 2018),…
Descriptors: Heritage Education, English Language Learners, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Hornberger, Nancy H.; De Korne, Haley; Weinberg, Miranda – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2016
The experiences of a community of people learning and teaching Lenape in Pennsylvania provide insights into the complexities of current ways of talking and acting about language reclamation. We illustrate how Native and non-Native participants in a university-based Indigenous language class constructed language, identity, and place in nuanced ways…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Second Language Learning, Self Concept, Language Maintenance
Wernicke, Meike – Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics / Revue canadienne de linguistique appliquée, 2016
For many decades, Francophone regions in Canada have provided language study exchanges for French as a second language (FSL) learners within their own country. At the same time, FSL students and teachers in Canada continue to orient to a native speaker standard associated with European French. This Eurocentric orientation manifested itself in a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Study Abroad, French, Second Language Learning
Venables, Elizabeth; Eisenchlas, Susana A.; Schalley, Andrea C. – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2014
The aim of this study is to examine the strategies majority language-speaking parents use to support the development of the minority language in families who follow the pattern of exposure known as one-parent-one-language (OPOL). In this particular pattern of raising a child bilingually, each parent speaks only their own native language to their…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Video Technology, Audio Equipment, Second Language Learning
Slavkov, Nikolay – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2015
This paper reports on a case study of a child raised in the context of bilingual first-language acquisition in English and Bulgarian, where the latter represents a minority (heritage) language. Using diary data and spontaneous speech recordings, the study identifies a period of loss of production in Bulgarian (1;7-2;3) and a subsequent…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Bilingualism, Child Rearing, Linguistic Input
Chevalier, Sarah – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2013
The situation once described by Hoffmann (1985), in which children grow up exposed to three languages from an early age, is a reality for an increasing number of families. In Europe--as elsewhere--greater mobility is leading to greater numbers of mixed-language couples (Piller 2002), and, by extension, multilingual families. For such families,…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Multilingualism, Family Relationship, Language Acquisition
Seals, Corinne A. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Previous research in the field of heritage language (HL) acquisition has focused on the connection between frequency of language use and HL speakers' connection to and maintenance of their HL. This dissertation introduces the concept of positioning through discourse into the study of HLs to show evidence that while frequency of HL use contributes…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Self Concept, Ethnography, Rural Areas
Otcu, Bahar – Heritage Language Journal, 2010
This paper investigates the role of a Turkish Saturday school in the United States in helping students maintain the Turkish language and form a sense of Turkish cultural identity. This case study of one Turkish Saturday school in New York City builds on research in language maintenance and shift, and in language ideologies and linguistic identity…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Turkish, Heritage Education, Native Language Instruction