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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
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Wenyang Sun – Bilingual Research Journal, 2024
Drawing on Asian Critical Race Theory, this qualitative case study analyzed first-generation Chinese immigrant parents' language ideologies on their children's heritage language (HL) maintenance in the United States. The findings revealed parents' persistence in preserving their HLs for their children, as they considered HLs to be an integral…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Parent Attitudes, Chinese Americans, Racism
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Vashti Wai Yu Lee; Lee Her; Peter I. De Costa – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2024
This article presents a narrative inquiry of a Chinese heritage mother to theorize and explicate how historical, relational, and spatial processes impacted her negotiation with power and agency in relation to her own heritage language (HL) identity development. A narrative approach enables us to draw on participant counter-stories against master…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Cultural Background, Bilingual Education, Chinese
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DuBord, Elise M.; Becker, Elizabeth – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2022
The language practices of Heritage Learners (HLs) of Spanish are frequently regulated and stigmatized in academic and community settings when their Spanish is perceived as deficient. By ignoring institutional structures that accelerate Spanish loss, the "inadequacy" of Latinxs' Spanish is regularly perceived to be the fault of…
Descriptors: Spanish, Language Maintenance, Family Relationship, Language Usage
Jaime Fabricio Mejia Mayorga – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This dissertation explored the aspect of Indigeneity as a significant consideration in English Language Teaching (ELT); and thus makes a critical contribution to the literature in ELT/TESOL and applied linguistics. This body of knowledge benefits from privileging Indigenous ways and Indigenous knowledge in research practices, making explicit…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Indigenous Knowledge, English (Second Language)
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Ka Long Tung – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2025
This paper explores the reasons for migrant new speakers of Welsh in Cardiff to learn the language given that English is the main communication medium in everyday life. From interviews with 10 migrant new speakers of Welsh and their language diaries, this paper shows that migrant new speakers were interested in accessing the Welsh culture and…
Descriptors: Welsh, Language Minorities, Immigrants, Second Language Learning
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Csanád Bodó; Blanka Barabás; Isabela Botezatu; Noémi Fazakas; Judit Gáspár; János Imre Heltai; Petteri Laihonen; Veronika Lajos; Gergely Szabó; Csercsetáre-Invitees – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2025
The participatory approach is becoming more widespread in the social sciences and is also starting to take hold in the study of language in society. However, there has been little research done on how critical sociolinguistics can be linked to research that is based on the involvement and engagement of as many participants as possible at a level…
Descriptors: Participatory Research, Sociolinguistics, Language Research, Language Attitudes
Ganassin, Sara – Multilingual Matters, 2020
This book investigates the social, political and educational role of community language education in migratory contexts. It draws on an ethnographic study that investigates the significance of Mandarin-Chinese community schooling in Britain as an intercultural space for those involved. To understand the interrelation of 'language', 'culture' and…
Descriptors: Community Schools, Heritage Education, Native Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Anu Pandey – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2024
Podcasts are a unique media that have been used in Indigenous and endangered language communities in the form of Indigenous radio podcasts, instructional websites, or tools to aid classroom instruction. A podcast called Rituals of Kanauji speakers was created in Kanauji, a low-resource Indian language variety. Using this case study in Kanauji, I…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Audio Equipment, Computer Software, Second Language Learning
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Brendan Walsh – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2023
In the two decades preceding Irish independence the Gaelic League (Conradh na Gaeilge, founded 1893), an organisation dedicated to the revival of the Irish language, campaigned to persuade both national and intermediate commissioners of education to reposition the language within the curriculum to reflect what the League believed was both its…
Descriptors: Irish, Language Maintenance, Educational History, Elementary Secondary Education
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López, Luis Enrique – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2021
This article offers a critical appraisal of "educación intercultural bilingüe," an educational model with at least five decades of implementation. When this term was coined, Indigenous populations were mostly monolingual and their settlements mostly rural and distant from the seats of cultural hegemony and power. The situation is now…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Multicultural Education, American Indian Languages, Rural Areas
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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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Yaron Matras; Katie Harrison; Leonie Elisa Gaiser; Stephanie Connor – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Drawing on interviews with staff from Language Supplementary Schools (LSS) in Manchester (UK), we discuss the emergence of makeshift ideologies whereby actors seek to legitimise choices and policies of heritage language transmission in the diaspora setting. Actors discuss the use of regional and vernacular varieties, the consideration given to…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Community Schools, Language Attitudes, Language Maintenance
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Patricia Fjellgren; Leena Huss – International Journal of Human Rights Education, 2019
Our paper focuses on new ways to address silence and feelings of sadness surrounding language and cultural loss in Indigenous contexts, sometimes resulting in deep inter-generational trauma. As a consequence of two Council of Europe conventions ratified by Sweden, Indigenous and minority language maintenance and revitalization was included in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Language Maintenance, Languages
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Chinh Duc Nguyen; Thanh Nguyen Thao Tran; Nhu To Thi Pham; Mai Kha Ngoc Huynh – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
At a meso level, families have shown an imperative role in language policy in general and language education in particular. Predicated on the theories of family language policy and a transdisciplinary framework for L2 development, this study was undertaken to explore what three generations of a family did with the foreign languages they had…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Native Language, Second Language Learning, Family Relationship
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