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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Heritage Languages"”.
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Parental perceptions on maintaining heritage languages of CLD students
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Creating Curriculum Cartographers to Instruct English Language Learners and Support Heritage Languages
… an equivalent proficiency in their primary languages as they strive for bilingualism. Teachers are often unwilling or unable to incorporate ELLs into their class curriculum, and therefore do not honor students’ heritage languages. This leads to first language loss and ultimately limited …
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The acquisition of acoustic and aerodynamic patterns of coarticulation in second and heritage languages
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-11-11 without embargo terms
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Linguistic capital and linguistic selves of bilingual and multilingual taiwanese adults: motivation and identity rebuilding in learning Taiwanese heritage languages, Mandarin, English and other foreign languages
… affected the identities and inheritance of local languages and cultures for almost four decades. This changed drastically, when Taiwan began to embrace two key emancipatory concepts after the abolition of Mandarin-centric rule: democratisation and the ‘Taiwanisation’ of language …
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Immigrant language vitality: exploring the language practices of some Nigerian immigrants in Cape Town
… of this attempt at integration on their home languages and ultimately, their placement in their new society. It follows a qualitative research methodological approach for data collection where participants' language use and language choices are observed. Unstructured interviews and participant …
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The heritage language acquisition and education of an indigenous group in Taiwan: An ethnographic study of Atayals in an elementary school
… to investigate the learning and education of the heritage language of a group of indigenous students in Taiwan. Traditionally, their heritage language, Atayal, was not written. Also, Atayal was taught at schools only recently. As one of Austronesian language families, Atayal language and culture …
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The language socialisation experiences of a grade r child in a black middle-class multilingual family
South Africa (SA) is home to 11 official named languages; its Language in Education Policy (LIEP) identifies multilingualism as one of the defining characteristics of its citizenry (DOE, 1997). Moreover, English is the official Language of Learning and Teaching (LOLT) in most ex-Model C schools …
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Language Ideology & Pedagogical Views Across Roles: Examining a Spanish Heritage Language Program
… stakeholders within a university-level Spanish Heritage Language (SHL) program in Arizona, focusing on their language ideologies and critical language education efforts. The study, rooted in Critical Language Awareness (CLA) and Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy (CSP) frameworks, challenges …
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The Hidden Schools: Mapping Greek Heritage Language Education in Canada
Since the languages of immigrant communities in Canada are categorized as “non-official”, our government is under no obligation to contribute to the perpetuation of these languages. Furthermore, education, in general, is a provincial responsibility. Thus, no formal reporting and documentation of …
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Exploring The Relationship Between Heritage Language Teachers’ Professional Development Experiences and Their Self-Efficacy
<p>The expansion of heritage language education in the U.S. is contingent upon the improvement of heritage language teachers' knowledge and abilities in the classroom, as well as the adoption of the most effective methods for instructing heritage language learners. In order to accomplish the …
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‘Found in Translation’ Māori, Samoan and Tongan bilingual teachers, and a re-visioning of the Professional Learning landscape in Education
… place during PLD and also the indigenous and heritage languages used by teachers and through the voices in this thesis. ‘Found in Translation’ also refers to the findings from the study where suggestions are made for PLD facilitators and what they need to translate or change in order to …
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"Marie Manje La Pom Nan." Examining the Cognitive Process of Restructuring and Advantage Selection in the Definite Article System in Haitian Creole Among U.S. Born Heritage Speakers of Haitian Creole
<p>The distributional patterns of heritage speakers’ reanalyzed first language are often grammatically divergent from native speakers. Irrespective of the heritage language, there is converging evidence that the cognitive process of reanalysis of heritage languages is often evident in less salient …
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A Comparative Variationist Analysis of Phonetic Variation and Change in Toronto Heritage Tagalog
Heritage languages are defined as a product of language contact. In this scenario, patterns of variability are often attributed to contact with the majority language. However, variability may not necessarily or solely be due to contact; it may also be driven by language-internal processes or even …
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Which Way for Catalan and Galician?
… Jay, M.A., Autumn 2006 Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures Spanish Minority Language Attitudes in Galicia and Catalonia Chair: Professor Anthony Beltramo Despite legitimate fears of the effects twenty-first century globalization will have on linguistic diversity, vigorous efforts …
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Which Way for Catalan and Galician?
… Jay, M.A., Autumn 2006 Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures Spanish Minority Language Attitudes in Galicia and Catalonia Chair: Professor Anthony Beltramo Despite legitimate fears of the effects twenty-first century globalization will have on linguistic diversity, vigorous efforts …
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Errors in inflectional morphemes as an index of linguistic competence of Korean Heritage language learners and American learners of Korean
… the linguistic competence in Korean of Korean heritage language learners (HLLs), compared to English-speaking non-heritage language learners (NHLLs) of Korean. It is unclear and controversial as to whether heritage languages learners are exposed to early but are interrupted manifest as L1 …
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“They know exactly with whom to speak German and with whom English”: Grade-R children's language and literacy practices in the context of the linguistic and literacy repertoires and ideologies of four Cape Town bilingual families with German as a heritage language
South Africa is a country of 11 official languages, with a majority of the population speaking at least two languages. Bilingual/multilingual upbringing is the reality of most South African children, and the transfer and maintenance of heritage languages is an important topic in the field of …
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Family language policy and practice as parental mediation of habitus, capital and field: an ethnographic case-study of migrant families in England
… has implications for research into the role of languages for education of children from migrant families. According to the Department for Education (DfE, 2017) in England, the percentage of pupils who are believed to be exposed to a language other than English at home has been steadily …
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A mixed-method approach to heritage language maintenance in Los Angeles: investigating language dominance, acculturation, and generation at a Hispanic-Serving Institution
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-10-20 without embargo terms
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LINGUISTIC IDENTITIES OF AMERICAN MUSLIM ADOLESCENT GIRLS
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2025-05-01
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