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When Is a Wrong Answer Right?: Mediating Indigenous Language Revitalization at Taiwan Indigenous Television

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 2, Page 259-271, June 2026.
ABSTRACT This article follows producers of Kai Language Heroes, the first Indigenous language game show in the world, as they adapted the genre for language revitalization. Kai Language Heroes is one of many original programs at Taiwan Indigenous Television (TITV), a public broadcaster that serves Taiwan's diverse Austronesian‐speaking peoples. I argue
Eliana Ritts
wiley   +1 more source

Acquisition of the Closing Diphthongs /əʊ/ and /eɪ/ in English L2 and Jamaican Creole

open access: yesSAGE Open, 2015
This study investigates the claim that the strategies used by second/foreign language learners are, more or less, the same as those used by speakers of pidgin/creole languages.
Ahmed Mousa
doaj   +1 more source

L’impact du futur périphrastique français dans les franco-créoles

open access: yesTIPA. Travaux interdisciplinaires sur la parole et le langage, 2015
Creole languages are the most recent natural languages (Khim 2005). As a matter of fact the question of their classification imposed itself very early to linguists when the language science enquired about the topic of language filiation in the second ...
Marie E. Paul
doaj   +1 more source

Beyond Negated Identity: Mediating the World History Classroom through Adorno's Negative Dialectics

open access: yesEducational Theory, Volume 76, Issue 3, Page 395-419, June 2026.
Abstract This article centers on Adorno's negative dialectics to account for experiences of alienation and marginalization within the world history classroom. It begins with the problem of how marginalization occurs in high school world history classrooms with predominantly Black and Latinx students.
Tadashi Dozono
wiley   +1 more source

Decolonizing Creole on the Mauritius Islands: Creative Practices in Mauritian Creole

open access: yesIsland Studies Journal, 2016
Many Caribbean and Indian Ocean islands have a common history of French and British colonization, where a Creole language developed from the contact of different colonial and African/ Indian languages. In the process, African languages died, making place
Gitanjali Pyndiah
doaj   +1 more source

Nigerian Creole as language of instruction: Will Nigerian lecturers use Nigerian Creole?

open access: yesReading & Writing, 2015
This mixed questionnaire survey sought to determine if lecturers who learned to speak and understand Nigerian Creole before English are willing to use the language as medium of instruction.
Uju C. Ukwuoma
doaj   +1 more source

How to Foster Challenging Interdisciplinary Collaborations: Can Philosophy Support Neuroscientists?

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Neuroscience, Volume 63, Issue 11, June 2026.
Neuroscience as part of the natural sciences can engage in interdisciplinary projects with other academic disciplines, such as the humanities and the social science. In addition, within the overall disciplinary framework of neuroscience, interdisciplinary‐type interactions can occur between the fields of biological, clinical, and computational ...
M. Kunze   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cognitive Semantics Against Creole Exceptionalism: A Case Study of Body Part Expressions in Nigerian Pidgin

open access: yesStudies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric
One of the claims of creole exceptionalism is that creole languages have lexicons of reduced conceptual and expressive complexity. Building on previous studies of the lexicon of Nigerian Pidgin/NP and the applications of the cognitive linguistic ...
Kosecki Krzysztof
doaj   +1 more source

Las voces de Baha‐blantes: An analysis of the language learning investment of intermediate students of Spanish at the tertiary level

open access: yesForeign Language Annals, Volume 59, Issue 2, Page 337-357, Summer 2026.
Abstract This study examines the language learning investment of five intermediate learners of Spanish at a tertiary institution in The Bahamas. It draws on participants’ language learning journeys to consider how their previous experiences and access to language learning opportunities contributed to their investment.
Valentino Rahming
wiley   +1 more source

Diagnostic features of English-lexified creoles: first attestations from Virgin Islands English creole [PDF]

open access: yesBucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2011
This paper presents the earliest attestations in Virgin Islands English Creole of the diagnostic features of English-lexified contact languages proposed by Baker and Huber (2001).
Andrei A. Avram
doaj   +2 more sources

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