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Hickey, Tina M.; Lewis, Gwyn; Baker, Colin – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2014
A challenge noted in a number of endangered language contexts is the need to mix second-language (L2) learners of the target language with first-language (L1) speakers of that language in a less planned way than is found in the two-way immersion approach. Such mixing of L1 speakers of the target language with L2 learners arises from the difficulty…
Descriptors: Welsh, Language Maintenance, Language Skill Attrition, Foreign Countries
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de Bres, Julia – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2008
The attitudes and behaviours of majority language speakers have an important impact on minority languages, and it has been claimed that the long-term success of minority language initiatives may only be achievable if some degree of favourable opinion, or "tolerability", of these initiatives is secured among majority language speakers.…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Immersion Programs, Foreign Countries, Language Attitudes