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Paterson, Lindsay; O'Hanlon, Fiona – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2015
Two social roles for language have been distinguished by Edwards--the communicative and the symbolic. Using data from a survey of public attitudes to Gaelic in Scotland, the article investigates the extent to which people's view of language may be characterised as relating to these roles. Respondents were grouped, using statistical cluster…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Minorities, Indo European Languages, Public Opinion
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Whiting, Erin; Feinauer, Erika; VanDerwerken, Douglas – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2012
Scholars who work with Latino/as in the USA have long been calling for a more nuanced understanding of the heterogeneity of the US-based Latino population. Two-way Immersion (TWI) bilingual education programmes are an interesting context in which to examine the Latino parent communities in the USA. Overall, the language enrichment nature of TWI…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Parent Attitudes, Bilingual Education, Language Enrichment