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Lynn Mario Menezes de Souza – Journal of Multilingual Theories and Practices, 2023
This article discusses a family's plurilingualism from a southern and decolonial lens, looking at the role of language ideologies in its plurilingual practices. It focuses on the concept of space as "kshetra" and its accompanying plurilingual ethos, originating in the Asian origins of the family. The overarching claim is that by holding…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Family Influence, Language Attitudes, Ideology
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Hui Huang; Wanyu Liao – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2024
Drawing on the concept of family language policy (FLP), this paper reports on how four Chinese-English interlingual families maintain the minority language of Chinese with their preteenager children in Australia. The study takes an integrative approach to explore both parents' and children's perspectives on language development. While highlighting…
Descriptors: Chinese, Language Maintenance, Family Relationship, Second Language Learning
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Sarah Shulist; Tania Granadillo – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2022
Linguistic and anthropological research has demonstrated that language ideologies play a complex role in contexts of language endangerment, as well as in revitalization initiatives. In this paper, we articulate some central ways in which these beliefs and interests can translate into significant barriers to successful language revitalization.…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Language Attitudes, Language Research, Documentation
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Agnieszka Stepkowska – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2024
The paper focuses on the communication of three bilingual couples, each speaking a different lingua franca (LF). Positioning theory offers a methodological framework to explain language choice in interactive positioning within personal contacts. A comparative view of the couples' storylines benefits from the differences between them. The analysis…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Form Classes (Languages), Language Attitudes, Intercultural Communication
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Vázquez-Fernández, Martín – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2022
A critical approach to "neofalante," newspeakers of Galician and their theoretical framework, is presented. In order to do so, we take as a case study some of its documented cases as a popular notion, its transformations, and its mobilisation in the planning discourse, along with its construction and evolution as an analytical category…
Descriptors: Romance Languages, Case Studies, Language Planning, Language Attitudes
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Hornsby, Michael; Dolowy-Rybinska, Nicole; Chojnicka, Joanna; Toutous, Jeanne – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
Breton (Brittany, France) and Lower Sorbian (Brandenburg, Germany) are two of the many endangered minority languages currently undergoing revitalization. In their cases, given that intergenerational transmission in a family setting has mostly ceased, language revitalization takes the form of educational initiatives, such as the immersion program…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Language Minorities, Language Skill Attrition, Second Language Learning
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Walsh, Thomas – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2023
Following a period of close to a century when the Irish language was placed at the margins of the education system under British rule, there was a radical change in curriculum provision following political independence in Ireland in the 1920s. The importance of the Irish language in defining sovereignty, national identity, and nationhood in the…
Descriptors: Nationalism, Bilingualism, Irish, Language Maintenance
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Zielinska, Anna; Ksiezyk, Felicja – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2021
The main objective of the article is to illustrate how language ideologies and language management at the macro-level (state language policy), micro-level (in families) and meso-level (local communities) influence language change and the conceptualization of multilingualism of immigrants from Upper Silesia residing in Germany. Language biographies…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Language Usage, Immigrants, Multilingualism
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MacKenzie, Alison; Engman, Mel; McGurk, Orla – Teaching in Higher Education, 2022
We discuss how the colonisation of the island of Ireland has marginalised and delegitimised Gaeilge, the Irish language, and the relationship of this colonial genealogy in place to local educational institutions and the practices therein. The hegemonic and homogenising processes of British colonialism continue to reverberate in modern discourses…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Language Maintenance, Irish, Political Attitudes
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Pandey, Avinash Rambachan – Contemporary Education Dialogue, 2023
Mother-tongue education has increasingly become a keyword in formulations of development goals, especially the Sustainable Development Goals (2015). Achievement of these goals acquires a grave sense of urgency in light of the ever-increasing threat to the very fabric of our linguistic diversity. The basic premise of this article is that Gandhian…
Descriptors: Native Language Instruction, Educational Philosophy, Language Skill Attrition, Language Maintenance
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Smith, Hilary; Pryor, Leanne – Waikato Journal of Education, 2022
The reawakening of the Indigenous Gamilaraay language in northern inland New South Wales, Australia involves righting two centuries of prohibition and mistreatment after invasion by English-speaking settlers. Gamilaraay is no longer used as an everyday language in the community, although it has strong emblematic value for the Gamilaraay community.…
Descriptors: Picture Books, Languages, Indigenous Populations, Foreign Countries
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Wells, Gordon – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2020
Divergent views on the relative value or status of spoken and written language skills may contribute to a disconnect between lay community members and language professionals, activists, or academics, and conflicted approaches to language support, teaching and/or revitalisation. Taking the bilingual Outer Hebrides as a case study, an online…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Indo European Languages, Language Maintenance, Case Studies
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Nakagawa, Satoru; Kouritzin, Sandra – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2021
We suggest that while Indigenous languages are threatened by capitalist and neoliberal encroachments, responses from applied linguists in the academy can be misguided. To make our argument, we must first define neoliberalism, and examine how the broader neoliberal discourses of choice, competition and the free market have percolated and distilled…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Social Systems, Applied Linguistics, Language Maintenance
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Peytaví Deixona, Joan – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2021
This article concerns Northern Catalonia, the part of the Catalan-speaking area that today is in France. A Catalan-speaking region until the first half of the twentieth century, the effects of Frenchification -- the acceptance of the French political and economic project in the contemporary era -- and the multiple demographic changes of the…
Descriptors: French, Romance Languages, Diachronic Linguistics, Language Maintenance
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Viaut, Alain – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2019
The notion of "linguistic minority" not only incorporates the concept of group but also serves to define that group. Yet the relation between language and group can be considered in various ways. The primary function of language being that of communication, this will necessarily play a key role in defining the contours of any group whose…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Language Minorities, Correlation, Native Language
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