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Showing 1 to 20 of 47 for “"language maintenance"”.
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KALAMAZOO REVISITED: HERITAGE LANGUAGE MAINTENANCE AMONG LATVIANS IN NORTH AMERICA
… investment, and community contact in Heritage Language Learning (HLL), Heritage Language Maintenance (HLM) and identity formation among two groups of North American Latvians. One is made up of 49 teenagers at Gaŗezers language camp in Kalamazoo, Michigan. The other comprises 25 parents, other …
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Language maintenance and shift: a survey of isiZulu speakers residing in Soshanguve
The study’s main objective was to investigate the language maintenance and shift amongst the isiZulu language speakers residing in Soshanguve, a township in which Sotho-Tswana languages (or Sepitori) dominate. The most current South African Census offers quantifiable insight into the variety of …
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Heritage language maintenance: a Mexican American mother's success with raising bilingual children
… heritage traditions and speaking the heritage language exclusively with them. Through extensive interviewing this past year, I report on the themes in her stories, analyze the decisions she made, and discuss the success of her children. The sources of her resilience are identified and …
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Language maintenance and shift among the Rehoboth Basters of Namibia ca. 1868-2008
The main theme of the thesis is language endangerment, which represents a subfield of enquiry in sociolinguistics. The language under investigation is Afrikaans in its setting in Rehoboth, Namibia. Afrikaans was maintained as mother tongue and has been the dominant language as well as lingua franca …
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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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Language maintenance by Haitian immigrants in the USA: a case study of the Chicago community
… impede multi-generational mother tongue (L1) maintenance, with an emphasis on immigrant contexts by case-studying the Haitian immigrant community in Chicago as a potential exemplar of bilingual immigrant communities that is embedded in an economically and culturally dominant language: English. …
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Language Maintenance and Shift in Sardinia: A Case Study of Sardinian and Italian in Cagliari
… of the accepted timing of inter-generational language shift. The analysis of the data on language use in the family domain and outside the family shows, among the other things, that, although the LCs and their parents seem to use mainly Italian, the context examined is an example of contact …
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Cultural and language maintenance and shift in an immigrant African community of KwaZulu-Natal: the Zanzibaris of Durban
… a contribution to the study of cultural and language maintenance and shift among minority communities in South Africa. It explores the contact situation and implications thereof of the Zanzibari speech community in the post-apartheid Rainbow Nation South Africa. It discusses identity, …
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Language maintenance and shift in communities of oral tradition: The case of the Sillanko of Burkina Faso (West Africa)
The problem. This study investigates the ongoing sociolinguistic situation of the Sillanko, a linguistic minority of Burkina Faso (West Africa). The objective is to assess the chances for the Sillanko remaining a separate group and the risks for their becoming linguistically assimilated to the …
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Chinese Heritage Language Maintenance and Identity Construction: Investigation of the Family Language Policy of Chinese Immigrant Families in New Zealand
… study attempts to shed light on Chinese heritage language (CHL) maintenance and identity construction in Chinese immigrant families in New Zealand by investigating the implementation of family language policy (FLP) and the sequential outcomes of CHL competency. Accordingly, it provides valuable …
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SPANISH-SPEAKING IMMIGRANTS IN A U.S. MIDWESTERN COMMUNITY: AN EXPLORATION OF ATTITUDES TOWARDS SPANISH, SPANISH IN THE U.S., LANGUAGE MAINTENANCE, AND BILINGUALISM
… reactions that people have towards the language. One hundred participants living in three different cities in Indiana completed a background questionnaire, a language attitudes questionnaire, and a one-on-one interview about their attitudes towards Spanish. It is imperative to know about …
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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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Perceptions of Bilingualism and Home Language Maintenance and Loss: A Study of Latino Parents at a San Francisco Bay Area Elementary Charter School
… to their early elementary school children's home language use. To fill the gap in research, this study explores the relationship between first generation Latino parent perspectives of bilingualism, home language maintenance and loss, and the intersection of culture and identity in an elementary …
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Toward a theory of positive psychology in supporting child-centred family language policy
… psychology in the design of child-centred family language policy (FLP) to support home language maintenance in transnational bilingual families with young children learning two or more languages simultaneously at home. This study aims to understand and describe how FLP is co�constructed by the …
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Siraiki : A Sociolinguistic Study of Language Desertion.
… of this thesis is the phenomenon of Siraiki language maintenance language shift in Multan. This is the first study of its kind carried out on any Pakistani language. The study examines the speech practices of rural and urban Siraiki Multanis in the home domain in the light of various …
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LANGUAGE ATTITUDES OF FIRST AND SECOND GENERATION AFGHAN-AMERICANS AND IRANIAN-AMERICANS TOWARD DARI AND PERSIAN
… goal of this study is to investigate the current language attitudes of first and second generation Afghan and Iranian-Americans toward the two varieties Dari and Persian of the Indo-Iranian language Farsi. Research on this subject can facilitate future endeavors toward heritage language …
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