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Language Maintenance and Ethnic Identity among Korean Heritage Speakers in the Pacific Region (Australia, New Zealand, and Hawaii)
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Min Jung Jee; Mi Yung Park; Sang Yee Cheon – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
This study investigated heritage language (HL) maintenance and ethnic identity among Korean heritage speakers in the Pacific region (Australia, New Zealand, and Hawaii), an understudied population in the field. It focused on patterns of language use and factors (i.e. age at immigration (AI), self-rated language proficiency, and frequency of…
Descriptors: Korean, Foreign Countries, Native Language, Language Maintenance
The Promise of Assessments That Advance Social Justice: An Indigenous Example
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Kukea Shultz, Pohai; Englert, Kerry – Applied Measurement in Education, 2023
In the United States, systemic racism against people of color was brought to the forefront of discourse throughout 2020, and highlighted the on-going inequities faced by intentionally marginalized groups in policing, health and education. No community of color is immune from these inequities, and the activism in 2020 and the consequences of the…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Indigenous Populations, Minority Groups, Racism
The Return of Hawaiian: Language Networks of the Revival Movement
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Brenzinger, Matthias; Heinrich, Patrick – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2013
Some 40 years ago, language transmission in Hawai'i was interrupted among Hawaiians across all islands with the sole exception of language maintenance among a small community on the tiny, isolated Ni'ihau Island. Today, Hawaiian has returned as spoken and written medium with some 5000-7000 new speakers. The present paper provides an up-to-date…
Descriptors: Malayo Polynesian Languages, Language Maintenance, Sociolinguistics, Networks
Raising Cultural Self-Efficacy among Faculty and Staff of a Private Native Hawaiian School System
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Fong, Randie Kamuela – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The Hawaiian cultural revitalization movement in Hawai`i is an important driver for many Hawaiian organizations as well as educational institutions that serve Native Hawaiians. One such organization is Kamehameha Schools, a private school system founded and endowed by Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop in 1887 to educate Native Hawaiian children. From…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Cultural Maintenance, Private Schools, Hawaiians
The Influences of Indigenous Heritage Language Education on Students and Families in a Hawaiian Language Immersion Program
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Luning, Rebecca J. I.; Yamauchi, Lois A. – Heritage Language Journal, 2010
Papahana Kaiapuni is a K-12 public school program in which the Hawaiian language is the medium of instruction. In 1987, parents and language activists started the program in response to the dwindling number of speakers that resulted from a nearly century-long ban on the indigenous language. This study examined how participation in this indigenous…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, School Activities, Immersion Programs, Elementary Secondary Education
Language Socialisation and Korean as a Heritage Language: A Study of Hawaiian Classrooms
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Byon, Andrew Sangpil – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2003
Transcripts were made of teacher-student conversations in four Hawaiian classrooms in which Korean is taught as a heritage language. The study examines the use of the sentence-ending particle "yo," the meaning of the particle, the way it is used in interaction, and its sociopragmatic implication. The following research questions are…
Descriptors: Korean, Heritage Education, Socialization, Second Language Instruction