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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Linguistic minorities"”.
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Social vulnerability, resilience and capital in disasters: Immigrants, refugees and linguistic minorities in the 2010-2011 Canterbury and Tohoku disasters
… explores how immigrants and refugees, who are linguistic minorities, experienced the 2010-2011 Canterbury and Tohoku disasters. This includes their perceived social vulnerabilities and resilience to disasters. Sociological research has found that disasters affect individuals, families and …
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Translation Policies of Minoritised Languages through Organised Activism: a Comparative Study of Catalan and Welsh
… translation policies must encompass sociolinguistic principles of language equality, rights, and revitalisation. Therefore, as well as arguing for the importance of studying the societal implications of translation in order to formulate sociolinguistically-informed policies, my work makes …
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Quebec’s Uninhabitable Community: Identity and Community among Anglo-Quebecer Out-Migrants
… tensions that influenced a complete economic and linguistic shift in power from English to French. The symbolic and literal reclamation of Quebec as a French province set the conditions for the partial erasure of the Quebec anglophone (Anglo-Quebecer) community and sense of identity. From a series …
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Minority language television - social, political and cultural implications
… media policy, particularly with regards to their linguistic minorities. This part of the thesis deals with the historical, political and institutional background for the provision of minority language media in Breton and Welsh. It takes as points of reference firstly the state, and secondly the …
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Underappreciated Resource or Inadequate Measure?
… “In those States in which ethnic, religious or linguistic minorities exist, persons belonging to such minorities shall not be denied the right, in community with the other members of their group, to enjoy their own culture, to profess and practise their own religion, or to use their own …
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Language socialization in Canadian Hispanic communities : ideologies and practices
… the importance of supporting home languages for linguistic-minority families in multilingual settings, as the family language is the means through which they can more successfully socialize their children into the beliefs, values, ideologies and practices surrounding their languages and cultures. …
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The Perceived Value of Open Educational Resources (OER) by Francophone Linguistic Minority Students in a Post-Secondary Educational (PSE) Setting
… Canadian provinces, Francophone students are linguistic minority. French language academic resources are often more expensive, difficult to locate, and sometimes not available at all for niche subject areas. This often results in barriers to access learning materials. The unequal access to …
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Measuring minority language presence on Wikipedia: Towards the measurement of minority language presence on the World Wide Web
This study examines twenty majority language and minority language versions of Wikipedia (English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Danish, Icelandic, Welsh, Gaelic, Scots Gaelic, Manx, Cornish, West Frisian, North Frisian, Saterland Frisian, Breton, Catalan, Galician and Sardinian). The results …
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Parental perceptions on maintaining heritage languages of CLD students
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Identifying barriers to mental health services for limited and non-English speaking clients in a rural homogenous environment: an approach to reduce barriers with technology
<p>The purpose of this study was to explore the current protocols set in place by local agencies when working with limited English proficiency clients (LEP). Due to the homogenous environment in the state of North Dakota and Northwestern Minnesota and the increase of immigrants, migrants and …
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A study of the impact of California Proposition 227 on the identification and placement of English language learners in special education programs and services in California public schools
<p>This dissertation examined whether there had been any changes in local practices and policies with respect to the identification and placement of English language learners in special education programs and services since the enactment of Proposition 227, and if so, what they were.</p> <p>This …
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Pre-Service Teachers' Attitudes Toward Language Diversity
… attitudes toward language diversity and linguistically diverse students. Two hundred seventy-one teacher education students were surveyed to determine relative effects of demographic, mediating variables and psychosocial variables on language attitude as measured by the Language Attitudes …
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Language Policies in the European Union and India: A Comparative Study
The thesis offers a comparative analysis of language policies in the EU and India. Specifically, it examines the role of power and ideology in the formulation and implementation of language policies. The need for this thesis emerged in view of the lack of comprehensive comparative analyses of …
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ΕΚΠΑΙΔΕΥΤΙΚΑ ΠΡΟΒΛΗΜΑΤΑ ΚΑΙ ΕΚΚΟΙΝΩΝΙΣΜΟΣ ΜΕΤΑΝΑΣΤΩΝ ΚΑΤΩ ΑΠΟ ΚΑΘΕΣΤΩΣ ΘΕΣΜΟΘΕΤΗΜΕΝΩΝ ΔΙΑΚΡΙΣΕΩΝ ΣΤΗΝ ΟΜΟΣΠΟΝΔΙΑΚΗ ΔΗΜΟΚΡΑΤΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΓΕΡΜ...
Ο ΕΚΚΟΙΝΩΝΙΣΜΟΣ ΤΩΝ ΝΕΩΝ ΜΕΤΑΝΑΣΤΩΝ ΣΤΗΝ ΟΜΟΣΠΟΝΔΙΑΚΗ ΔΗΜΟΚΡΑΤΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΓΕΡΜΑΝΙΑΣ ΛΑΜΒΑΝΕΙ ΧΩΡΑ ΚΑΤΩ ΑΠΟ ΚΑΘΕΣΤΩΣ ΘΕΣΜΟΠΟΙΗΜΕΝΩΝ ΔΙΑΚΡΙΣΕΩΝ. Ο ΝΟΜΟΣ ΑΛΛΟΔΑΠΩΝ ΡΥΘΜΙΖΕΙ ΣΧΕΔΟΝ ΟΛΕΣ ΤΙΣ ΠΛΕΥΡΕΣ ΤΗΣ ΖΩΗΣ ΤΟΥΣ ΚΑΙ ΕΜΠΟΔΙΖΕΙ ΜΙΑ ΙΣΟΤΙΜΗ ΕΝΤΑΞΗ ΣΤΗΝ ΚΟΙΝΩΝΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΧΩΡΑΣ ΥΠΟΔΟΧΗΣ, ΑΚΟΜΑ ΚΑΙ ΑΥΤΩΝ ΠΟΥ …