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Juyoung Song; Amber E. Wu – Modern Language Journal, 2024
This collaborative autoethnography explores the intersection of heritage language (HL) maintenance, emotion, and identity from the perspectives of a mother and her 15-year-old daughter learning and maintaining Korean in the United States. The analysis of their narratives concerning critical emotional experiences relevant to HL maintenance reveals…
Descriptors: Native Language, Language Maintenance, Korean, Parent Child Relationship
Carmit Altman; Zhanna Burstein-Feldman; Sveta Fichman; Sharon Armon-Lotem; Susan Joffe; Joel Walters – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Israel's population includes over a million Russian-speaking immigrants and more than 300,000 native English speakers. These groups differ in social integration and in the status of their heritage languages in Israel. We compared children's and parents' perceptions of children's identities, language abilities, and language preferences among…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Language Proficiency, Hebrew, Russian
Max Antony-Newman – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Due to the increased mobility and linguistic and cultural diversity internationally, there has been a renewed interest in the linguistic practices of immigrant families. Earlier scholarship focused on the difference between parenting in monolingual contexts and bilingual parenting conceptualised as management of more than one language in a family.…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Parenting Styles, Parent Child Relationship, Immigrants
Shulist, Sarah – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2022
This paper uses the themes of language rights, language choice, and language risk to consider linguistic insecurity in the Northwest Amazon (Upper Negro river) region of Brazil. Because the region is home to a large number of languages (c. two dozen), the idea of preserving this diversity is a popular theme in discourses about language in the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Civil Rights, Native Language, American Indian Languages
Nguyen, Trang Thi Thuy – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2021
This study examines bilingual identity of Vietnamese ethnic minority students as reflected in their language practices, language beliefs and language management. It also focuses on factors related to ethnic-cultural factors, social factors, interaction and investment that influence their bilingual identity. Data were obtained from multiple…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ethnic Groups, Minority Group Students, Bilingual Students
Oihana Leonet; María Orcasitas-Vicandi – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
In the present study, we have explored language learning motivation, attitudes and exposition strategies in participants' L2 and FL in an attempt to adopt a multilingual view that better suits the complex sociolinguistic context of the Basque Country. The study includes 200 young multilinguals from the Basque Country. Most of them have Basque as…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Languages
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
Susan Gary Walters – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2023
Nuosu script, a unique character-based script with a long history, permeates the public spaces of Xichang, the capital of the Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture in southwest China. Using interviews, photos, observations, and documents, this qualitative study discovers the uses and meanings of Nuosu script in the linguistic landscape (LL). The…
Descriptors: Written Language, Geographic Regions, Sociocultural Patterns, Accuracy
Ana Tankosic; Eldin Milak; Carly Steele; Toni Dobinson – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2024
AI potential to recolonise language practices by reproducing existing marginalisations in novel ways has already instilled fears of a 'contemporary dystopia' (Miras et al., 2022) -- a space of cultural and linguistic erasure. Accents represent a distinctive aspect of language practice associated with one's sociocultural, and ethno-racial…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Conflict, Resilience (Psychology), Systems Approach
Abo-Zaied Arar, Eman; Tannenbaum, Michal – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2021
This article examines the encounter between two Arabic dialects, one in use in Arab communities in central Israel (originally a community of farmers -- Fellahin) and one in use among Bedouins who migrated to the area from the southern Negev area. We relied on semi-structured in-depth interviews with 18 participants representing four Bedouin…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Semitic Languages, Arabs, Dialects
Ting, Su-Hie; Tinggang, Andyson; Metom, Lilly – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2021
The study examined the subjective ethnolinguistic vitality of an Iban community in Sarawak, Malaysia based on their language use and attitudes. A survey of 200 respondents in the Song district was conducted. To determine the objective ethnolinguistic vitality, a structural analysis was performed on their sociolinguistic backgrounds. The results…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Language Attitudes, Language Maintenance, Sociolinguistics
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
Kober, Hannah Zahava – Journal of Jewish Education, 2023
In this hybrid ethnographic case study, I explore how a cadre of Israeli-American parents in Los Angeles navigate the local Hebrew education landscape to seek linguistic resources for their children. I examine how participants envision Hebrew learning and determine the roles of Jewish, Israeli-serving, and public schools in transmitting Hebrew…
Descriptors: Hebrew, Judaism, Foreign Countries, Ethnography
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
Shen, Chunxuan; Jiang, Wenying – Bilingual Research Journal, 2021
This study investigates the links between the second-generation Chinese Australians' heritage language proficiency and perceptions of Chinese identity. Thirty 10--11-year-old children of Chinese immigrants took a Chinese proficiency test and participated in semi-structured interviews. The test revealed a wide range of performance levels in all the…
Descriptors: Native Language, Language Proficiency, Language Attitudes, Language Maintenance