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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
Avinash Pandey; Renuka Ozarkar – Contemporary Education Dialogue, 2025
This article focuses on the ever-increasing stress on multilingual education (MLE) in policy documents, especially its pairing with mother tongues in education (MTE). This focus brings into relief the relationship between MTE, the preservation of linguistic diversity and social democracy. We argue that the outcome of this relationship crucially…
Descriptors: Aesthetics, Language Usage, Native Language, Multilingualism
Brandon Wiltshire; Steven Bird; Rebecca Hardwick – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Indigenous communities, linguists, teachers, and language activists have been developing methods to revitalise endangered languages over several decades. Not only are these methods diverse, they are usually implemented in various ways according to local needs and aspirations. Language revitalisation methods focus on proficiency, but there is also…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Native Language, Language Research, Foreign Countries
Salbrina Sharbawi; Noor Hasharina Hassan – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Studies on Brunei Malay have made inconsistent findings: while some have asserted that this variety is thriving and is in no way endangered, others have found that its use is now waning. As the dynamics of family speech can inform what is happening linguistically at the community level, this study seeks to investigate the family language policies…
Descriptors: Indonesian Languages, Language Usage, Native Language, English (Second Language)
Min Jung Jee; Mi Yung Park; Sang Yee Cheon – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
This study investigated heritage language (HL) maintenance and ethnic identity among Korean heritage speakers in the Pacific region (Australia, New Zealand, and Hawaii), an understudied population in the field. It focused on patterns of language use and factors (i.e. age at immigration (AI), self-rated language proficiency, and frequency of…
Descriptors: Korean, Foreign Countries, Native Language, Language Maintenance
Puskar R. Joshi; Zohreh R. Eslami – Cogent Education, 2024
Despite Nepal's huge linguistic diversity, maintaining minority languages and providing the mother tongue-based education to non-dominant language children are Nepal's two major obstacles. Scholars have pointed to a negative consequence of the standard language ideology on non-dominant language maintenance and mother tongue-based schooling. Using…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Minorities, Multilingualism, Native Language
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
Nicole Volmering, Editor; Claire M. Dunne, Editor; John Walsh, Editor; Noel Ó Murchadha, Editor – Peter Lang Publishing Group, 2024
This volume marks the 2022 centenary of the first National Programme for Education in the Free State. Central to the outlook of the new educational programme was the position of the Irish language as a marker of Irish national identity and culture. Education was to be the means to revitalise the language and cultural nationalism eroded through…
Descriptors: Educational History, Irish, Self Concept, Language Maintenance
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
Judith Ansó Ros; Minna Maijala; Nelli Valkamo – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Globalisation has resulted in European families that have a variety of home languages, leading to the need for heritage language learning (HLL). The purpose of HLL is to ensure that in addition to learning the language of their schools, children with migrant backgrounds also maintain their heritage language (HL). Besides the 'regular' teaching, in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Native Language, Teacher Role, Language Maintenance
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
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
Ronald Shabtaev; Joel Walters; Sharon Armon-Lotem – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Mountain Jewish immigrants to Israel from the Eastern Caucasus used two heritage languages, Juhuri (Judeo-Tat) and Russian. Juhuri was their home and Russian the societal languages prior to migration. In Israel, Juhuri and Russian are Heritage Languages and Hebrew is the societal language. The present study reports on frequency of use and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Jews, Generational Differences, Native Language
Bahhari, Abdulwdood – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2023
Families that live temporarily abroad for work or education (amongst other reasons) often encounter some difficulties to maintain their children's L1; particularly when they live in English-speaking countries. This study explores the language maintenance experiences of ten Saudi Arabian families sojourning in Australia, from the perspective of…
Descriptors: Arabic, Language Maintenance, Religion, Islam
Lanting Wang; M. Obaidul Hamid – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Characterised by media saturation and hypermobility, contemporary society has presented polymedia as an integral element of family life. The expansion and recognition of polymedia in language learning calls for exploring its role in heritage language (HL) maintenance. However, despite growing research interest in polymedia in diverse realms, there…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Chinese, Native Language, Language Maintenance