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Thomas B. Pepinsky; Maya Ravindranath Abtahian; Abigail C. Cohn – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Cross-nationally, urbanization is associated with the decline of minority languages and a shift towards national and official languages. But the processes that link urbanization with language shift have not been adequately documented. In this paper we consider the relationship between cities and language shift from a sociolinguistic perspective,…
Descriptors: Urbanization, Language Minorities, Foreign Countries, Census Figures
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Bee Chin Ng; Mei Jing Jo Tan; Anne Pauwels; Francesco Cavallaro – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Studies on language shift in Singapore have focused on the language use within ethnic communities. However, despite increasing numbers of interethnic marriages, very few studies have explored the effect of such marriages on LS. This article explores the language practices within Malay-Chinese mixed marriages and examines how language policies in…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Family Relationship, Indonesian Languages, Second Language Learning
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Wai Sheng Woo; Patricia Nora Riget – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2022
This article presents the results of a small-scale study on the linguistic landscape in the two terminals of the Kuala Lumpur International Airport. Thirty-one digital photos of non-identical signs out of a total of 368 'top-down' signs identified in the public space were collected, and questionnaires were administered to airport users to gauge…
Descriptors: Second Languages, Multilingualism, Arabic, Chinese
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Tabitha Kidwell; Hanung Triyoko – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Regular and sustained contact with speakers of other languages might offer members of multilingual societies opportunities to develop cultural awareness through interactions with diverse individuals. This study examines how the language awareness of individuals in a highly multilingual setting can act as a resource to support their learning about…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Multilingualism, Cultural Awareness, Second Language Learning
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Huang, Li; Lambert, James – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2020
This paper reports on a promising methodology for multilingualism studies that was trialled at the National Institute of Education (NIE) on the campus of Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, in 2018. The methodology named the Aural-Oral Transect (AOT) is a systematic, easy-to-implement, unbiased way of collecting quantitative data on…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Oral Language, Speech Communication, Research Methodology