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Garbiñe Bereziartua; Maria del Mar Boillos; Nahia Idoiaga – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
English has become the main lingua franca for scientific dissemination. Its hegemony contrasts with the scarce presence of minority languages such as Basque in academic publications. Its presence, in addition to having a short trajectory, has not yet been studied. This paper aims to identify the reasons for publishing or not publishing in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Languages, Language Dominance, Language Usage
Yvonne Tse Crepaldi; Seyed Hadi Mirvahedi – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2024
Transnationals constitute one-third of the population of the economically prosperous Singapore. Applying a family language policy (FLP) framework and collaborative autoethnography from data (interviews, videos, and diaries) spanning 13 years, this study delves into the linguistic journey of an Italian-Chinese family with two children born in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multilingualism, Foreign Nationals, Case Studies
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Daniel J. Olson; Lori Czerwionka – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2025
While language dominance has been crucial in the study of bilingualism, recent research has called for more detailed measures to systematically account for the observation that bilinguals use different languages in different domains, a phenomenon formalized in the Complementary Principle. Few studies have systematically measured these…
Descriptors: Language Dominance, Bilingualism, Language Usage, Second Language Learning
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Shanhua He – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
This paper proposes a concept of "campus vitality" of languages: the ability of a language to maintain its prestige, visibility and continuity on university campuses. A seven-factor framework is developed for on-the-ground investigation of the relevant languages in a given campus context. These indexical factors are the number,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Language Planning, Multilingualism
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Marie-Eve Bouchard – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2024
Teachers play an essential role in fostering linguistic security in their classrooms. The aim of this study is to identify the language ideologies articulated by teachers in the Francophone schools of the English-dominant context of British Columbia (Canada) in order to explore how the different practices they implement to foster the use of French…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Language Usage, French, English (Second Language)
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Sun, Baoqi; Loh, Chin Ee; Bakar, Mukhlis Abu; Vaish, Viniti – Language Policy, 2023
This study investigated and compared family language policies (FLPs) from the perspectives of two groups of Singaporean bilingual children: 2,971 English-Chinese and 780 English-Malay children (aged 9-11 years). It also examined how different FLP components -- namely, language beliefs, practices, and management -- influenced their leisure reading…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Recreational Reading, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Robyn Berghoff – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
A substantial body of research has examined the role of English in South Africans' linguistic repertoires. Many of these studies have investigated whether a language shift towards English might be underway among first-language (L1) speakers of the indigenous languages. At the same time, the role of English in the repertoires of L1 English speakers…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, African Languages, Multilingualism
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Venturin, Beatrice – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2023
Multilinguals' feelings of difference when switching languages have been discussed extensively. However, this research area has mainly focused on multilinguals dominant in their first language (L1), examining the feelings they experience when using any language other than the L1 (LX). The present study offers a novel perspective on this topic and…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Multilingualism, Language Attitudes, Language Usage
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Ee-Ling Low – TESOL Journal, 2025
Singapore is an ethnically, linguistically, and culturally diverse nation-state that has always practiced deliberate language policy and planning. The bilingual education policy, introduced shortly after the young nation's independence has led to the emergence of English-knowing bilinguals who are proficient in both English and their ethnically…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Bilingualism
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Kim, Youn-Kyung – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2023
The Korean heritage language (HL) speakers exercised their "agency" to speak Korean HL, and transformed their ambivalent language experiences, caused by the contradictory ideologies of assimilation and racialization operating in the United States, into a conducive "third space" (Bhabha, 1994), where they recreated their ethnic…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Korean, Heritage Education, Ethnicity
David Glennon Stanton – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This critical ethnography examines how the language ideologies of non-teaching staff (NTS) shape language practices in a bilingual PreK-8 school. Recent research on two-way bilingual education reveals the ways that the language ideologies of teachers, administrators, and parents can support the privileging of English in bilingual programs by…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Priscila Lopez-Beltran Forcada – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Studies assessing the grammatical knowledge of speakers of Spanish as a heritage language have largely focused on the Spanish subjunctive mood and have concluded, almost unanimously, that heritage speakers' knowledge of the Spanish subjunctive is non-native-like and subject to incomplete acquisition. However, there is also evidence that while…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Grammar, Native Language, Linguistic Theory
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María G. Lang; Georgia Earnest García – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2024
This ethnographic study utilized border theory to examine how a bilingual Latinx teacher created equitable instruction for Mexican immigrant second-graders in a 50-50 dual-language (DL) classroom in the U.S. Midwest. Approximately half the students in the DL classroom came from Spanish-speaking, working-class homes, and half from English-speaking,…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Ethnography, Bilingual Education Programs, English
Roberto E. Olmeda-Rosario – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This research project sought to explore the influence of English L2 on Spanish L1 in an environment where the L1 (Spanish) is the dominant language. Participants were recruited through voluntary response sampling at the University of Puerto Rico Secondary School (UHS). They completed a language survey on Google Forms that collected general…
Descriptors: Spanish, Language Variation, Puerto Ricans, Language Usage
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Santello, Marco – Applied Linguistics, 2015
This article explores attitudes and response to language selection in advertising targeting Italian bilinguals who belong to a defined speech community. The research builds upon (i) research on multilingual advertising by investigating its attitudinal correlates, and (ii) studies on advertising to bilinguals through the verification of the…
Descriptors: Advertising, Language Attitudes, Language Fluency, Italian
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