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Perera, Nirukshi – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2021
Transplanting non-Western religions to Western nations results in first-generation migrant attempts to transmit faith in vastly different contexts. Especially as adolescents, second-generation migrants tackle mediating their personal religious beliefs in a society with diverse religions and ideologies as well as negotiating membership of their…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Religious Education, Generational Differences, Adolescents
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Perera, Nirukshi – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2022
This study is located in a lesser-known educational context and investigates aspects of migration, religion and multilingualism. Focusing on the discourse of second-generation adolescent migrants in a Tamil Hindu temple school in urban Australia, I discuss how flexible language practices manifest in this migrant faith setting. I argue that the use…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immigrants, Religion, Multilingualism
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Shen, Hui-Zhong; Yang, Hongzhi – Cogent Education, 2022
Educational entrepreneurship refers to the competence of educational entrepreneurs in making changes and taking initiatives in vision-driven innovation and value creation. Research of educational entrepreneurship needs further investigation, especially in the context of complementary education. This paper explores the educational entrepreneurship…
Descriptors: Ethnic Groups, Entrepreneurship, Principals, Foreign Countries
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Yang, Hongzhi; Shen, Hui-Zhong – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2021
This research investigated Australian community languages school (CLS) teachers' emerging pedagogical habitus, focussing specifically on key dynamics effecting the adaptation in their pedagogical understanding and practice. Following an interview-based case study design, the research analyzed in detail major factors and their interplay that had…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Language Teachers, Community Schools, Teacher Attitudes
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Perera, Nirukshi – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2015
In the study of language maintenance and shift for migrant groups in Australia, scholars have tended to focus on how personal factors or aspects of life in the host society shape language maintenance patterns. In this study, I explore how factors originating in the homeland affect language maintenance for Sri Lankan migrants in Australia. The aim…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Maintenance, Immigrants, Dravidian Languages
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Fernandez, Sue; Clyne, Michael – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2007
There have been few Australian studies of language maintenance amongst immigrant languages from the Indian subcontinent. The present study focuses on Tamil speakers in Melbourne from Sri Lanka or India, who are Hindus or Christians. Tamil is a pluricentric language that has been under the domination of English in these countries, at least amongst…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Language Maintenance, Focus Groups, Foreign Countries