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Soyan, Rossina – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2022
Where do you start the course design for a minority language? One starting point is identifying and surveying a community of possible learners. This paper explores the needs of learners of Tuvan, a language spoken primarily in the Republic of Tuva, Southern Siberia, Russia. The study was conducted in two steps: an online questionnaire (March 2019)…
Descriptors: Student Needs, Self Evaluation (Individuals), Self Evaluation (Groups), Foreign Countries
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Yaqiong Cui; Peter I. De Costa – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2024
Multilingual learners confront challenges not only in mastering new languages but also in forming new identities. Guided by the investment model, we traced the learning of Chinese and English of two Uyghur women who attended a coastal Chinese university and investigated how they navigated the Chinese mainstream education system to university…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ethnic Groups, Minority Group Students, Chinese
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Bokayev, Baurzhan; Zharkynbekova, Sholpan; Nurseitova, Khalida; Bokayeva, Ainash; Akzhigitova, Assel; Nurgalieva, Saniya – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2012
The issues of social, cultural, and language adjustment and the integration of repatriates into the Kazakhstani society are crucial factors in maintaining a stable society. The complicated process of self-identification of ethnic Kazakhs is a major aspect of their sociolinguistic "penetration" into Kazakh society. In this work we…
Descriptors: Identification, Foreign Countries, Language Planning, Self Concept