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Yvonne Tse Crepaldi; Seyed Hadi Mirvahedi – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2024
Transnationals constitute one-third of the population of the economically prosperous Singapore. Applying a family language policy (FLP) framework and collaborative autoethnography from data (interviews, videos, and diaries) spanning 13 years, this study delves into the linguistic journey of an Italian-Chinese family with two children born in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multilingualism, Foreign Nationals, Case Studies
Shanhua He – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
This paper proposes a concept of "campus vitality" of languages: the ability of a language to maintain its prestige, visibility and continuity on university campuses. A seven-factor framework is developed for on-the-ground investigation of the relevant languages in a given campus context. These indexical factors are the number,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Language Planning, Multilingualism
Phoebe Quaynor – ProQuest LLC, 2024
In the decades since the formal end of colonialism in Africa, classrooms have become a crucial space where students and teachers negotiate issues of identity, agency, and self-determination. One key area in which this struggle has been engaged is the role of language in education and whether it can be a tool for both academic discourses and…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Educational Practices, Teacher Attitudes, Self Determination
Nikolay Slavkov – Educational Linguistics, 2021
This chapter explores the concept of a Dominant Language Constellation (DLC) in a Canadian context and links it to family language policy (FLP) and language of schooling. The focus is on the province of Ontario where English is the majority language and French a minority language, along with various other minority languages, including…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multilingualism, Language Dominance, English
The Role of English in South African Multilinguals' Linguistic Repertoires: A Cluster-Analytic Study
Robyn Berghoff – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
A substantial body of research has examined the role of English in South Africans' linguistic repertoires. Many of these studies have investigated whether a language shift towards English might be underway among first-language (L1) speakers of the indigenous languages. At the same time, the role of English in the repertoires of L1 English speakers…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, African Languages, Multilingualism
Venturin, Beatrice – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2023
Multilinguals' feelings of difference when switching languages have been discussed extensively. However, this research area has mainly focused on multilinguals dominant in their first language (L1), examining the feelings they experience when using any language other than the L1 (LX). The present study offers a novel perspective on this topic and…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Multilingualism, Language Attitudes, Language Usage
Ee-Ling Low – TESOL Journal, 2025
Singapore is an ethnically, linguistically, and culturally diverse nation-state that has always practiced deliberate language policy and planning. The bilingual education policy, introduced shortly after the young nation's independence has led to the emergence of English-knowing bilinguals who are proficient in both English and their ethnically…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Bilingualism
Yifei Gong; Klavs Hansen; Jianlin Chen – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2024
Despite the worldwide prevalence of multilingualism, the knowledge of the relationship between domain-general cognitive control and multilingual language control remains scant. Here we provide new insights into this issue by examining systematically how different components of inhibitory control (i.e., response inhibition and interference…
Descriptors: Inhibition, Language Processing, Multilingualism, Psycholinguistics
Perera, Nirukshi – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2022
This study is located in a lesser-known educational context and investigates aspects of migration, religion and multilingualism. Focusing on the discourse of second-generation adolescent migrants in a Tamil Hindu temple school in urban Australia, I discuss how flexible language practices manifest in this migrant faith setting. I argue that the use…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immigrants, Religion, Multilingualism
Larissa Aronin, Editor; Eva Vetter, Editor – Educational Linguistics, 2021
This volume is an important instalment in the rapidly expanding literature on multilingualism in education and language teaching. Within multilingual studies the volume is highly innovative in its application of the concept, theory and perspectives of the Dominant Language Constellations (DLC). The volume reports original research on language…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Educational Policy
Mikaela Björklund; Siv Björklund – Educational Linguistics, 2021
Finland is constitutionally bilingual and there are several small minority languages. With recent migration from different parts of the world, the linguistic environment has become even more diversified. National curricula take linguistic diversity among the pupils into consideration and stress the importance of supporting pupils' language…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Practicums, Bilingualism, Swedish
Resnik, Pia – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2021
Research on inner speech is still in a nascent stage. The present paper investigates consecutive multilinguals' self-reported language use for inner speech with a focus on the L1 (first language) and L2 (second language). Its aim is to identify influential variables in these processes and to investigate if findings from previous studies are…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Inner Speech (Subvocal), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Yakushkina, Maria; Olson, Daniel J. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2017
A significant body of research has begun to explore the association between language and identity, a relationship that becomes more complex when considering multilingual communities. Important for this field, a number of studies have examined the interrelation between language and identity in the Cuban population in the USA, a case in which…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Usage, Identification, Ethnicity
Smith, Patriann; Cheema, Jehanzeb R.; Kumi-Yeboah, Alex; Warrican, S. Joel; Alleyne, Melissa L. – Teachers College Record, 2018
Background/Context: Standard English functions as a dominant language in the English-speaking Caribbean context despite the bidialectal, bilingual, and multilingual nature of countries. Notwithstanding, Caribbean non-Standard English-speaking students continue to be administered literacy assessments that do not take into account their…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Dialects, Language Dominance, Foreign Countries
Phyak, Prem – Language Policy, 2015
This paper takes language policing as an ideospace, a space where multiple language ideologies are constructed and contested. Drawing on critical language policy and linguistic anthropology, it unravels how participants in a Nepalese Facebook group construct and reproduce language ideologies that both challenge and impose homogeneity and…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Language Planning, Multilingualism, Language Usage