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Showing 1 to 20 of 57 for “"Minority language"”.
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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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Minority language television - social, political and cultural implications
This thesis explores the subject of minority language television by comparing the cases of Wales and Brittany, and in particular the social, political and cultural implications of the Welsh language television channel S4C. The thesis is divided up into two interrelated parts, where the first part …
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Developing a framework for a minority language-based utility
… a less diverse World Wide Web where only few languages are present. Based on the reversal language shift theory of Fishman, and using HDL as the technology approach, I propose a framework for deploying an online collaborative environment for enhancing the presence of minority languages on the …
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Minority Language Advising in the Workplace: Contextual Practices, Relational Knowing, Mandate, and Change
An investigation of minority language advising in the organisational context is carried out in this thesis. The focus is on Irish language support for employees mandated by the Official Languages Act, 2003 to provide public services through Irish. The research participants are adult second-language …
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Parental choice of minority language education in language shift situations in Brittany and Scotland
… the impact of bilingual education (immersion and language maintenance programmes) and the vitality of minority languages. It explores multiple factors, including parental expectations, that influence the decisions of parents who have chosen to educate their children through the medium of the …
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Investigation of Parents’ Involvement in Minority Language Maintenance: Case Study of Chinese Heritage Learners’ Parents
… is inclined to encourage children’s interest in language learning by inviting them to participate in various culture-related activities. By controlling for cultural backgrounds, namely Chinese heritage and immigrant status (e.g. both groups of parents are green-card holders, and they have been …
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Study of an older child's first language learned as the minority language in a bilingual setting
"The literature on bilingualism and language change shows considerable evidence that simplification, reduction, restructuring and loss of linguistic systems in the first language (mother tongue) do occur on a large scale under certain conditions. The research reported here is the case study of a …
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An exploratory study into home minority language usage and maintenance in bilingual primary school children in Northern Ireland’s growing multicultural community
… but had concerns about their children’s home minority language attrition.<br/><br/>Data was collected from parents and children and analysed using grounded theory and triangulated with data from a content analysis of children’s picture books and narrative accounts and compared with the …
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The international protection of language rights
Speakers of more than six thousand languages are not entitled to education, nor to the administration of justice or public services through the medium of their mother tongue(s). This statement is true of most indigenous language minorities and universally of migrant, immigrant or refugee …
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Language, Ideology, and Education: A Comparative Analysis of Bilingual Education Programs and the Question of Black English
… best way for public schools to cope with minority language children (and, specifically, with speakers of Black English). The dissertation is divided into three interrelated sections: the first deals with the history of minority language groups in the United States (from the Colonial Era to …
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Phonetic variation, sound change, and identity in Scottish Gaelic
This thesis examines language variation and change in a context of minority language revitali- sation. In particular, I concentrate on young fluent speakers of Scottish Gaelic, a minority language of Scotland that is currently undergoing revitalisation. Data from three groups of speakers are …
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A description of Jruq (Loven) : a Mon-Khmer language of the Lao PDR
This thesis is a description of Jruq, a Mon-Khmer language of mainland Southeast Asia. It is a minority language spoken in the Champassak, Attapeu and Saravane provinces of the Lao People's Democratic Republic (Lao PDR). The investigation is based predominantly on the data I collected during four …
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A description of Jruq (Loven) : a Mon-Khmer language of the Lao PDR
This thesis is a description of Jruq, a Mon-Khmer language of mainland Southeast Asia. It is a minority language spoken in the Champassak, Attapeu and Saravane provinces of the Lao People's Democratic Republic (Lao PDR). The investigation is based predominantly on the data I collected during four …
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Parental Attitudes Towards Early Childhood Education in Lower Sorbian: Challenges in Developing Bilingualism in a Critically Endangered Language
… Wendish is a critically endangered West Slavic minority language spoken in the area around Cottbus, a town in eastern Germany near the Polish border. As intergenerational transmission of Lower Sorbian has virtually ceased, bilingual education in daycare centres and schools was selected as an …
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A sociolinguistic investigation of language shift among Libyan Tuareg: the case of Ghat and Barkat
… shifting from Targia (Tamaheq), an indigenous minority language, to Arabic, the predominant language in the country. The two communities under investigation are Ghat, ethnically and linguistically heterogeneous and Barkat, ethnically and linguistically homogeneous. The investigation focuses on …
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Bilingualism and educational achievement:a study of young bilinguals in Birmingham schools and colleges
… aimed firstly to investigate current patterns of language use amongst young bilinguals in Birmingham and secondly to examine the relationship between this language use and educational achievement. The research then focussed on various practices, customs and attitudes which would favour the …
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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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Idioma com a veu: Teacher perspectives on language policy in Catalonia
This qualitative study explores the dimensions of language learning and identity development through the eyes of language teachers in the Catalonia region of Spain. Three interviews with teachers from the greater Barcelona area as well as the Tarragona province are of primary focus to this …
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'Ane instructioun for bairnis to be learnit in Scottis' :a study of Scots language in the Scottish secondary classroom
The Scots language has been historically marginalised in Scotland, arguably due to its lack of ‘capital’ (see Bailey, 1987 and Bourdieu, 1986). The European Union, under the Charter for Minority Languages, recognised Scots as a minority language in 2000 and the UK Government ratified Scots as such …
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