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Fei Tang; Raees Calafato – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
As part of its ambitious Belt and Road initiative, the Chinese government, cognizant of the fact that establishing strong people-to-people bonds locally, regionally, and internationally will be key to the initiative's success and that languages will play a pivotal role in facilitating this, has called for the diversification of language programmes…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Self Concept
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Anas Hajar; Ali Ait Si Mhamed – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
This paper explores eight Kazakhstani postgraduate students' reflections of their international educational experiences in the UK after their immediate re-entry into Kazakhstan. Special focus was on their language identity development after their one-year stay in the UK. It was informed by Benson et al.'s ([2013]. "Second Language Identity in…
Descriptors: Native Language, Self Concept, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Marzo, Stefania; Ceuleers, Evy – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2011
The term "Citetaal" was originally used to refer to the language spoken by Italian immigrants in the Eastern part of Flanders (Limburg) and diffused in the former ghettoised mining areas (the cite). It is a melting pot language, based on Dutch but with a high amount of code mixture from immigrant languages, mostly Italian and Turkish.…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Student Attitudes, Focus Groups, Adolescents
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Stevenson, Patrick – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1990
Switzerland's multilingual and multicultural image as an exemplary model of successful cohabitation and conflict management gives a misleading static impression of harmonious intercultural relations. The highly complex Swiss society faces challenges from the coalition of cultural and linguistic entities that live beside, rather than with, one…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Cultural Interrelationships, Cultural Pluralism, Ethnicity
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Kraemer, Roberta; Olshtain, Elite – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1989
Investigation of the ethnolinguistic vitality perceptions of Jewish and Arab high school students in Israel showed that both groups' perceptions corresponded remarkably to objective reality in direction, although not in intensity, with the Jewish majority accentuating the differences and the Arab minority attenuating the differences. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Arabic, Cultural Differences, Ethnicity, Foreign Countries