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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"linguistic minority"”.
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Reading Results: A Critical Look at Standarized Testing and the Linguistic Minority
<p>A critical look into assessing the Standardized Test and Reporting (STAR) test data among English language learners gives educators a chance to examine the cultural biases present within the standardized test movement started by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. In particular, The STAR test …
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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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Language maintenance and shift in communities of oral tradition: The case of the Sillanko of Burkina Faso (West Africa)
… 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 Moose or …
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Language, culture, and identity negotiation: perspectives of adolescent Japanese sojourner students in the Midwest, USA
… shape their current identities as cultural and linguistic minority students. This research also aims to learn how the students’ sojourning experiences influenced their mindsets as future returnee students. I conducted an in-depth case study with a phenomenographic approach as the theoretical …
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Bilingualism and educational achievement:a study of young bilinguals in Birmingham schools and colleges
… which would favour the attrition or survival of minority languages in the British situation. The data necessary to address this question was provided by a sample of three hundred and seventy-four 16-19 year olds, studying in Birmingham schools and colleges during the period 1987-1990 and drawn …
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With Language Brings Light: Narratives by Deaf Ethiopians and their Right to Sign Language
… considers the Deaf community as a cultural and linguistic minority that has the right to accessible language, sign language, from birth and Deaf role models that foster DCCW in the younger generation of Deaf youth.</p>
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Building the Fransaskois Identity through Drama
… Fransaskois characters have with the other linguistic-cultural minorities of Saskatchewan, as represented by the Métis, as well as with the linguistic-cultural majorities of Saskatchewan and Quebec. Through these relationships the plays explore how a linguistic minority rooted in the …
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A Qualitative Study of the Positioning of Emergent Bilinguals during Formal and Informal School-Based Interactions
… positioned emergent bilinguals as not only the linguistic minority but also the numeric minority, a population dynamic notably underrepresented in the literature. Using a positioning theory framework that focused on the normative constraints that support meaning making during social …
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Parent Engagement and Cultural Capital: Negotiating Culture in a Multilingual/Multiethnic School
… and interactions with parents from ethnic/linguistic minority groups.</p>
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Communication Equity: Perspectives from Spanish-Speaking Families
… have largely excluded culturally and linguistically diverse communities. Spanish-speaking Hispanics/Latinos, the largest ethnic and linguistic minority in the U.S., experience layers systemic of inequities that further compound access to and engagement in training, like CPI. In these …
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Urban teachers' understandings and uses of student funds of knowledge in the development of global competence
… settings comprised of racial, ethnic, and/or linguistic-minority students, especially, a logical but seemingly underutilized facilitator of global competence would be instruction that draws from students’ funds of knowledge--the home-based practices central to a household’s functioning and …
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Navigating College Life: College Transition Experiences and Persistence of Minority Immigrant Students
Fifty-two ethnic minority immigrant students drawn from the 2006 entering freshman class at a predominantly White, public, doctoral granting, residential institution in the Midwestern U.S. participated in the study. These students and their families regarded postsecondary education in the U.S. as …
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Sealbhú na Gaeilge ag naíonáin: early language acquisition of Irish
… increased pressure to provide people living in linguistic minority communities with assessment and intervention in the language of the community in which the client lives. In Ireland, Irish, although a minority language, enjoys a positive attitude and a high status as the first official language …
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Understanding the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic response measures on deaf adults in Cape Town
… as both part of the disability community and a linguistic minority, have faced unique challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic, largely due to the implemented pandemic response measures. Such measures have included mask mandates, social distancing policies, hand hygiene guidelines, and lockdown …
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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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Legal Recognition and Media Representation of Sign Languages: South African Sign Language and New Zealand Sign Language as case studies
… as comparative case studies. Drawing on sociolinguistic frameworks of language planning and policy, and language ideologies and attitudes, the study explores how officialisation impacts newspaper media portrayals of sign languages and their users. Firstly, an extensive survey of the different …
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UNITED OR DIVIDED? A sociocultural study of conflict among British Sign Language users in the workplace
… and understand Deaf BSL users as a cultural and linguistic minority, a perspective that stands in contrast to the persistent medical view of sign language users. This perspective aims at redefining approaches to Deaf people from a dominated, pathological position to an alternative visuality …
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Defining the nation, defining public television: discourses of publics on public service television in post-communist Latvia
… between the way members of the ethno-linguistic majority of Latvian-speakers and the sizeable ethno-linguistic minority of Russian-speakers conceptualize the public broadcaster LTV, as well as understand the concept of public broadcasting more generally, and the way they define the …
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"Ma vie est vraiment différente de ce que je pensais": A life-story analysis of geographies and gendered subjectivities of Francophone mothers in Kingston
… life-stories, namely mothering, migration, and minority language, intersect with experiences of places to orient their subjectivities, their material conditions and practices, and their future possibilities in various ways. These intersections of life stories and places shape particular …