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Language Management in Semi-Peripheral Game Production: How Foreign Workers in Czech Video Game Studios Experience the Use of English, Czech, and Other Slavic Languages
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Jan Houška – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2025
The paper applies language management theory to study the interactions of international with local workers (simple management) and language policies (organised management) in 10 Czech video game studios. By longitudinally interviewing foreign game developers from Central-Eastern and Western Europe, as well as North and South America, I identified…
Descriptors: Video Games, Slavic Languages, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Informal Bilingual Teachers' Language Practices and the Consequences on Pupils' Language Choices in a Situation of Unequal Bilingualism: The Case of an Upper Sorbian Education System
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Dolowy-Rybinska, Nicole – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2020
This paper investigates how bilingual Upper Sorbian-German teachers who belong to the Sorbian speech community (Lusatia, Germany) introduce the minority language during German language lessons in an Upper Sorbian school. In Lusatia, as well as in Sorbian schools, bilingualism is not of equal character; minority language speakers are all bilingual…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Bilingual Teachers, Language Minorities, German