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Khetoa, Soyiso; Motsei, Sara – Perspectives in Education, 2021
The lack of equivalence between African languages on the one hand and Afrikaans and English on the other hand under the governments that ruled South Africa until the collapse of apartheid has seriously undermined the status of African languages. Indigenous South Africans experienced decades of marginalisation -- so much, in fact, that many,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Student Attitudes, Opinions
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Manoj Kumar – Contemporary Education Dialogue, 2024
In the immediate aftermath of Indian Independence in 1947, there was a palpable attempt to replace English with Hindi and other Indian languages to unleash the processes of decolonisation. English was castigated as the language of the British Empire and was seen to be the basis of power and privilege for a handful of English-educated elites. A new…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Official Languages, Indians, Indo European Languages
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Puskar R. Joshi; Zohreh R. Eslami – Cogent Education, 2024
Despite Nepal's huge linguistic diversity, maintaining minority languages and providing the mother tongue-based education to non-dominant language children are Nepal's two major obstacles. Scholars have pointed to a negative consequence of the standard language ideology on non-dominant language maintenance and mother tongue-based schooling. Using…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Minorities, Multilingualism, Native Language
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MacKenzie, Alison; Engman, Mel; McGurk, Orla – Teaching in Higher Education, 2022
We discuss how the colonisation of the island of Ireland has marginalised and delegitimised Gaeilge, the Irish language, and the relationship of this colonial genealogy in place to local educational institutions and the practices therein. The hegemonic and homogenising processes of British colonialism continue to reverberate in modern discourses…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Language Maintenance, Irish, Political Attitudes
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Pandey, Avinash Rambachan – Contemporary Education Dialogue, 2023
Mother-tongue education has increasingly become a keyword in formulations of development goals, especially the Sustainable Development Goals (2015). Achievement of these goals acquires a grave sense of urgency in light of the ever-increasing threat to the very fabric of our linguistic diversity. The basic premise of this article is that Gandhian…
Descriptors: Native Language Instruction, Educational Philosophy, Language Skill Attrition, Language Maintenance
Joel Isaak Liq'a Yes – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The Dena'ina language is a well-documented Northern Dene Alaska Native language in south-central Alaska. The Dena'ina language is on the brink of going to sleep. The Dena'ina community strongly desires for the Dena'ina language to once again thrive in the community. Language-use within the community is a contributing factor to the health of the…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Alaska Natives, American Indian Languages, Indigenous Populations
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Csanád Bodó; Noémi Fazakas – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2025
Current research on language revitalisation through education has highlighted the impact of the standard language ideology on minoritised language practices. This ideology is intertwined with emerging literacy practices in language revitalisation, leading to debates on what to teach minority language students, and how. The paper argues that…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Sociolinguistics, Language Attitudes, Standard Spoken Usage
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Davies, Laura Beth – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2022
This paper explores the definition of 'bilingual provision' in vocational subjects in the Further Education sector in Wales, according to practitioners. The research is situated in the political context of the Welsh Government's policy of increasing the number of Welsh speakers to one million by 2050. The research is based on a sample of four…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Continuing Education, Foreign Countries, Political Influences
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Bissoonauth, Anu – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2021
This study investigated the changing patterns of language use and language attitudes of younger generations of Mauritians over the last two decades. This article discusses the shift in language attitudes of students in secondary education with special emphasis on Kreol, taught since 2012 in primary schools and from 2018 in secondary schools. A…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Student Characteristics, Adolescents, Language Usage
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Peytaví Deixona, Joan – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2021
This article concerns Northern Catalonia, the part of the Catalan-speaking area that today is in France. A Catalan-speaking region until the first half of the twentieth century, the effects of Frenchification -- the acceptance of the French political and economic project in the contemporary era -- and the multiple demographic changes of the…
Descriptors: French, Romance Languages, Diachronic Linguistics, Language Maintenance
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Wang, Xiaomei; Yeoh, Yin Yin – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2023
This paper focuses on the linguistic evolution of the Tianjin speech community in Sabah, Malaysia. From the perspective of restructuring of speech community, the paper integrates both micro and macro levels of language change into the analysis. Several methods were adopted in this study. Interviews were conducted with community leaders and various…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Ethnography, Language Usage, Ethnic Groups
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Süverdem, F. Büsra – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2022
This article focuses on the family language policy (FLP) of second-generation Turkish immigrant families living in France. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews with 12 families to observe their language ideologies, practices and management strategies. The thematic analysis shows that despite generational differences of parents,…
Descriptors: Family Relationship, Language Usage, Turkish, French
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Senayon, Esther – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2021
The National Policy on Education (NPE) in Nigeria stipulates that every child should be taught in the language of its immediate environment in the first three years of elementary education. This paper examines the NPE as it affects elementary schools in Ogu-speaking communities in Southwestern Nigeria. Using the research instruments of interviews…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Language of Instruction, Elementary School Students, Native Language
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Lall, Marie – Language and Education, 2021
Research across Myanmar's ethnic states has shown that large and well organised non-dominant ethnic groups such as the Mon, Karen, Shan and Kachin would prefer Myanmar's education system to offer MTB-MLE so that their children are able to start education in the mother tongue. This article engages with some of the overlooked voices of minorities…
Descriptors: Ethnic Groups, Native Language, Language of Instruction, Minority Groups
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Osborne, Dana – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2023
At the turn of the twentieth century, the Philippine archipelago transitioned from nearly 400 years of colonial occupation under the Spanish to imperial occupation under the Americans. This analysis interrogates the dynamics through which the heterogeneous languages of the Philippine archipelago were maintained alongside state-sanctioned languages…
Descriptors: Colonialism, Multilingualism, Language Maintenance, Official Languages
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