Parents’ planning, children’s agency and heritage language education: Re-storying the language experiences of three Chinese immigrant families in Australia [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 This study delves into the heritage language experiences of Australian-born Chinese immigrant children under the framework of family language policy. Storytelling as a narrative inquiry method is used to reveal the lived experiences of the protagonists ...
Chunxuan Shen +2 more
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Exploring goals and motivations of Māori heritage language learners [PDF]
Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2015 Motivations of Māori heritage language learners are explored within this qualitative study. Te reo Māori (the Māori language) is currently classed as endangered (Reedy et al., 2011), which calls for the exploration of the motivational experiences of ...
Awanui Te Huia
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Heritage language and linguistic theory. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2015 This paper discusses a common reality in many cases of multilingualism: heritage speakers, or unbalanced bilinguals, simultaneous or sequential, who shifted early in childhood from one language (their heritage language) to their dominant language (the language of their speech community). To demonstrate the relevance of heritage linguistics to the study
Scontras G, Fuchs Z, Polinsky M.
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Bestimmung des Sprachstands in einer Herkunftssprache: Ein Vergleich verschiedener Testverfahren am Beispiel des Polnischen als Herkunftssprache in Deutschland. Determining proficiency in a heritage language: A comparison of different testing methods based on Polish as a heritage language in Germany [PDF]
Glottodidactica, 2016 The paper discusses several methods of evaluating heritage speakers’ abilities in their heritage language. Speech rate in spontaneous text production, lexical knowledge and grammatical proficiency in the heritage language have been found to correlate ...
Bernhard Brehmer
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Family language policy and heritage language transmission in Pakistan—the intersection of family dynamics, ethnic identity and cultural practices on language proficiency and maintenance [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyHeritage languages play a pivotal role in cultural preservation, ethnic identity attachment and intergenerational continuity. The dynamics of heritage language transmission within family settings warrant comprehensive exploration, specifically in ...
Shameen Fatima, Muhammad Umar Nadeem
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College Heritage Language Speakers' Perceptions of Heritage Languages and Identity [PDF]
Journal of the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages, 2006 As one of the primary sectors for providing the nation's capacity for less commonly taught languages (LCTLs), the resource of heritage languages needs to be developed and honored (Brecht & Walton, 1994).
Jingjing Qin
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Cogent Arts & Humanities, 2023 The study investigated the role of Somalis in Ethiopia’s struggle against Italian colonial forces in the Ogaden region from 1915 to 1941, which has been overlooked in existing literature.
Muhammed Hamid Yasien +2 more
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Predictors of language proficiency and cultural identification in heritage bilinguals
Frontiers in Communication, 2022 According to the 2020 U.S. Census Bureau, more than 66 million residents over the age of 5 in the United States speak a language other than English at home.
Sayuri Hayakawa +3 more
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Multilingualism in Sao Tomé and Principe: Use of Subtitling Approach
Darnioji daugiakalbystė, 2022 Sao Tome and Principe (STP) is a developing country where several languages coexist, although only one of them, Portuguese, serves as the official language. The rest of the languages are limited to private use and many of them are at risk of disappearing.
Montroy Maria
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Quaternary Science Advances, 2023 The analysis of subsistence practices in the Lesser Sunda Islands (from Bali in the west to Wetar and Timor to the east) provides data to interpret anatomically modern humans’ subsistence adaptation in insular environments.
Sofia C. Samper Carro +3 more
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