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Wendy D. Roth; Elena G. van Stee; Alejandra Regla-Vargas – Grantee Submission, 2023
Demonstrating how race is socially constructed has been a core sociological objective, yet many individuals continue to hold essentialist and other concepts of what races are and how to account for group differences. These conceptualizations have crucial consequences for intergroup attitudes, support for social policies, and structures of…
Descriptors: Race, Racial Attitudes, Racism, Sociology
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Kovac, Velibor Bobo; Tveit, Anne Dorthe; Cameron, David Lansing; Jortveit, Maryann – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2017
The present study focuses on an educational arrangement in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) known as "two schools under one roof." The term refers to two different ethnic groups (Bosniaks and Croats) physically sharing the same school building, but maintaining separate administrations, teaching staff, and curricula. The purpose of the study…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Self Concept, Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes
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Supiani – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
This research aims to describe the use of language code applied by the participants and to find out the factors influencing the choice of language codes. This research is qualitative research that describe the use of language code in the cross married couples. The data are taken from the discourses about language code phenomena dealing with the…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Case Studies, Spouses, Family Relationship
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Schwartz, Mila; Gorbatt, Naomi – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2016
Language-focused listening to young children's talk provides insight into their internal thinking mechanisms regarding language as they engage in language learning. The aim of this exploratory longitudinal study was to examine and analyze children's meta-linguistic talk and its main characteristics in a bilingual Arabic-Hebrew-speaking preschool.…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Preschool Children, Second Language Learning, Video Technology
Gao, Katie B. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The study of language contact epitomizes the dynamics of language as a system of human communication. The competing linguistic forces at work when speakers of different language varieties come into contact can be narrowed down to two basic concepts--convergence and divergence. Looking at linguistic areas using a macro approach, languages in…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Language Variation, Foreign Countries, Ethnicity
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Galindo, D. Letticia – Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 1995
Interviews with 30 Chicano adolescents in 2 Austin barrios examined the varieties of English and Spanish used by respondents and their Anglo and African American peers, functions of the language varieties, maintenance of Spanish, language shift toward English, Spanish-accented English, and ethnic and social identity. Contains 43 references.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Code Switching (Language), Dialects, English