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Schmid, Monika S. – Language Teaching, 2023
Instructed foreign language knowledge -- that is, language skills acquired exclusively in the classroom without the benefit of any significant immersion experience -- remains a vastly neglected area of studies on language learning in general and language attrition in particular. There is also little consideration of foreign language attrition and…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Skill Attrition, Language Research
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Peter Hendrix; Ching Chu Sun; Henry Brighton; Andreas Bender – Cognitive Science, 2023
Previous studies provided evidence for a connection between language processing and language change. We add to these studies with an exploration of the influence of lexical-distributional properties of words in orthographic space, semantic space, and the mapping between orthographic and semantic space on the probability of lexical extinction.…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Maintenance
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Alice Chik; Silvia Melo-Pfeifer – Language Awareness, 2024
Many metropolitan cities have undergone rapid demographic changes in recent years, and such changes hasten and widen linguistic diversities. Similar changes are happening in Sydney, Australia and Hamburg, Germany. These changes are most acutely felt and observed in the classrooms where multiple languages are spoken, despite a prevalent monolingual…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Cross Cultural Studies, Teacher Education Programs
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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
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Kiyomi Umezawa – Global Education Review, 2025
This paper presents a collaborative effort between a Head Start lead teacher and an educational scholar, focusing on a Head Start classroom in a non-traditional migration area in Pennsylvania. The joint initiative, called "Juntos," was undertaken to support children's bilingualism in a context where English is the dominant language. The…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Native Language, Spanish, Spanish Speaking
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Scott Kissau; Kristin Davin; Kristen Moore – Journal of Teacher Education, 2024
Cherokee is an endangered Indigenous language. Revitalization efforts often include offering Cherokee language instruction, but these efforts have been hampered by a lack of qualified teachers. An initial licensure program was launched in fall 2019 aimed at supporting Cherokee language renewal via the preparation of teachers. While a step forward,…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Language Maintenance, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Fan Fang; Yating Huang – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2023
This article examines Teochew-speaking learners of English as an example of linguistic minority students' use of and attitudes toward everyday translanguaging practices. By conducting a series of semi-structured interviews, this qualitative study specifically examines students' translanguaging process with their mother tongue -- Teochew (L1), as…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Language Usage, Native Language, Mandarin Chinese
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Albayrak, Fatma; Badam, Azzaya – Pegem Journal of Education and Instruction, 2023
One of the bilingual communities surviving today in Mongolia, which is the cultural heritage site of the ancient communities that left their mark on the history of Central Asia, are the Tuvan and the Dukha, which is considered a branch of them. In this study, it is aimed to reflect the language teaching practices carried out for the young…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Language Usage, Case Studies, Native Language
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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
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Banegas, Darío Luis; Roberts, Grisel – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
This study examines the motivations of learners studying Welsh in the city of Esquel, Argentine Patagonia. Welsh is considered a heritage immigrant language in this region, given the fact that a group of Welsh settlers arrived in 1865 and established successful settlements. After a flourishing period, the process of acculturation reduced the…
Descriptors: Welsh, Language Maintenance, Immigrants, Heritage Education
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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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Koole, Marguerite; Morin, Randy; Lewis, Kevin; Dreaver-Charles, Kristine; Deters, Ralph; Vassileva, Julita; Lewis, Frank B. W. – International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning, 2023
This paper outlines the design, development, and preliminary usability study of a system comprising (1) a web-based Indigenous lesson-creation interface and (2) an accompanying mobile app for studying the lessons. The Nisotak project was developed in response to the need for the preservation of Indigenous languages and to support reconciliation…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Computer Assisted Instruction, American Indian Languages, Lesson Plans
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Guillem Belmar Viernes; Hauke Heyen – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2021
Social networking sites have become ubiquitous in our daily communicative exchanges, which has brought about new platforms of identification and opened possibilities that were out of reach for many minoritized communities. As they represent an increasing percentage of the media we consume, these sites have been considered crucial for…
Descriptors: Indo European Languages, Language Minorities, Computer Mediated Communication, Social Media
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Disbray, Samantha; O'Shannessy, Carmel; MacDonald, Gretel; Martin, Barbara – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
When an endangered or minority language is spoken by children and taught in schools, both oral and literacy skills are crucial for continued language maintenance. In school settings, literacy skills are often prioritised to support the transition to second language literacy, and rich oral language development is overlooked. This paper presents a…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Bilingual Education Programs
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Al-Sulaiman, Raghad S. – English Language Teaching, 2020
After graduation, many Saudi EFL graduates find themselves losing their oral communicative competence, which could be attributed to the period of their English non-use. To explore such a pressing issue, the following study investigates the effect of English non-use on a surveyed sample of Saudi EFL graduates, and how such disuse correlates with…
Descriptors: Oral Language, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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