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Exploring Views on Heritage Language Use and Bilingual Acquisition: Quantitative and Qualitative Evidence from Teachers and Immigrant Students in the Greek Context
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Griva, Eleni; Kiliari, Angeliki; Stamou, Anastasia G. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2017
In this paper, we present a synthesis of a series of studies, carried out by our research groups, from the Greek educational context on teachers' and immigrant students' views on issues of bilingual acquisition and of heritage language learning and teaching. Albeit including heterogeneous samples and employing quantitative and qualitative…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Native Language, Language Usage, Bilingualism
Language, Class, and Cultural Implications on First and Second Language Acquisition: A Cross-Cultural Study of Cognitive Consequences.
Yu, Agnes; Bain, Bruce – 1980
This paper explores the different patterns of cognitive behavior of children from varying linguistic, socio-economic, and cultural backgrounds. Several perspectives on cognitive consequences as related to language, class, and culture are presented. The sample consisted of grade one children, one hundred ten boys and one hundred girls between six…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Children, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
Early Immersion Education in Ireland: Na Naionrai.
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Hickey, Tina – 1997
A study addressed educational and psychological issues raised by the phenomenal growth of Irish-medium pre-schools ("naionrai"). Data were gathered in surveys of almost 2,000 parents, over 170 teachers and advisors, and 225 children in 25 Irish-medium pre-schools in both "Gaeltacht" (Irish-speaking districts) and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Educational Trends, Family Environment, Foreign Countries