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Strategies for Lexical Expansion in Algonquian Languages
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Rachel Fedorchak; Vade Kamenitsa-Hale; Hunter Thompson Lockwood; Monica Macaulay – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2023
This paper provides an empirical study of word formation and lexical expansion in a set of Algonquian languages, considering 153 terms for each language. These terms range from words that predate European colonialism to more recent forms coined by English L1 speakers. We propose a classification of the methods of lexical innovation, which involves…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Language Maintenance, Language Research, Documentation
Pedagogical Translanguaging in Community/Heritage Arabic Language Learning
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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
Subject Pronoun Expression in Spanish-Palenquero Bilinguals: Contact and Second Language Acquisition
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Johan De La Rosa Yacomelo – ProQuest LLC, 2020
This dissertation explores subject pronoun expression (SPE) in Palenquero Spanish (PL Spanish) and Palenquero Creole (PL Creole), two languages that have coexisted for centuries in San Basilio de Palenque (Colombia), share most of their lexicon, but differ in their grammar. Crucially, this study investigates how the contact between them and the…
Descriptors: Spanish, Creoles, Bilingualism, Form Classes (Languages)
Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) in Support of (Re)-Learning Native Languages: The Case of Runyakitara
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Katushemererwe, Fridah; Nerbonne, John – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2015
This study presents the results from a computer-assisted language learning (CALL) system of Runyakitara (RU_CALL). The major objective was to provide an electronic language learning environment that can enable learners with mother tongue deficiencies to enhance their knowledge of grammar and acquire writing skills in Runyakitara. The system…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Native Language Instruction, Grammar, Language Maintenance
The Effects of Heritage Language Instruction on First Language Proficiency: A Psycholinguistic Perspective
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Bylund, Emanuel; Diaz, Manuel – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2012
This study investigates the effects of weekly heritage language (HL) classes on first language (L1) proficiency in speakers who arrived in the second language (L2)-dominant setting before the onset of puberty. Two groups of L1 Spanish--L2 Swedish bilingual high school students living in Sweden participated in the study. One group currently…
Descriptors: Heritage Education, Language Maintenance, Foreign Countries, Computer Assisted Instruction
The Development of "New" Languages in Native American Communities.
Goodfellow, Anne – 2002
This paper examines the belief that as English rapidly infiltrates Native American cultures, school programs for teaching and maintaining native languages are not working. It suggests that Native American children who learn English first and their heritage languages second have difficulty learning the structures of their ancestral languages…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, American Indians, Ethnicity, Grammar