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Susan C. Baker; Heather Sparling; Peter D. MacIntyre – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Language is often used to demonstrate group membership and to establish cultural identity. When the language is not readily available or is at risk, individuals tend to turn to other markers to develop their cultural identity. Using Leximancer for thematic and conceptual analyses of interviews with ten accomplished musicians in Nova Scotia,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Musicians, Indo European Languages, Second Language Learning
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
Paul J. Meighan – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Indigenous communities worldwide face threats to their linguistic and epistemic heritage with the unabated spread of dominant colonial languages and global monocultures, such as English and the neoliberal, imperialistic worldview. There is considerable strain on the relatively few Elders and speakers of Indigenous languages to maintain cultures…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Language Maintenance, Indigenous Populations, Indigenous Knowledge
Abourehab, Yousra; Azaz, Mahmoud – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2023
This article examines the potential of pedagogical translanguaging in a community/heritage language context. With focus on Arabic as a multidialectal and multiglossic language, the paper primarily examines the function of translanguaging practices in teacher-learner and learner-learner interaction to construct and negotiate linguistic knowledge in…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Code Switching (Language), Heritage Education, Second Language Learning
Smith, Hilary Anne; Giacon, John; McLean, Bonnie – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2018
Australia is a 'hotspot' of Indigenous language endangerment, but has a growing number of language revival projects. We describe one such project which is using a community development approach for the revival of the Gamilaraay language in north-eastern New South Wales. As a result of colonisation there are now no fluent speakers of Gamilaraay and…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Computer Assisted Instruction, Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations
Velázquez, Isabel; Garrido, Marisol; Millán, Mónica – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2015
This article presents the results of an analysis of reported interlocutors in Spanish in a group of heritage speakers (HS), in three communities of the US Midwest. Participants were college-aged bilinguals developing their own personal and professional networks outside the direct influence of their parents. Responses are compared with those from…
Descriptors: Spanish, Spanish Speaking, Heritage Education, Native Speakers
Oriyama, Kaya – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2012
When linguistic minority parents wish to develop and maintain their children's literacy in heritage languages (HLs), what can they do to help? How and to what extent do the individual contexts of language use and background affect the development and maintenance of HL literacy, compared with the sociocultural context of community? What are the…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Community Schools, Literacy, Bilingualism
Nesteruk, Olena – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2010
The present study offers an in-depth look at heritage language maintenance and loss among the children of immigrant professionals from Eastern Europe residing in the USA. Based on semi-structured interviews with 50 married mothers and fathers, I explore: (1) parental attitudes related to heritage language transmission to their children; (2)…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Second Language Learning, Heritage Education, Foreign Countries
Schwartz, Mila – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2008
The family unit and home domain have been and remain important in heritage language maintenance efforts. There are complex relationships between parental language attitudes, their application in everyday language management activities and the children's knowledge of home language vocabulary. The present large-scale study examined the family policy…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Language Planning, Jews, Language Attitudes