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Parents’ planning, children’s agency and heritage language education: Re-storying the language experiences of three Chinese immigrant families in Australia [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers 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
doaj   +2 more sources

Home and School Language Practices and Their Effects on Heritage Language Acquisition: A View from Heritage Italians in Germany

open access: yesLanguages, 2021
This paper intends to provide some speculative remarks on how consistency and continuity in language use practices within and across contexts inform heritage language acquisition outcomes.
Irene Caloi, Jacopo Torregrossa
doaj   +3 more sources

Heritage language and linguistic theory. [PDF]

open access: yesFront 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.
europepmc   +7 more sources

Attitudes and Expectations towards Heritage Language Instruction: Evidence from Korean and Spanish in the US

open access: yesLanguages, 2021
This study investigated how the attitudes and expectations of heritage languages (HL) courses differ between Spanish and Korean. Spanish and Korean are two of the biggest heritage languages (HLs) taught across American universities, but represent ...
Esther Hur   +2 more
doaj   +3 more sources

College Heritage Language Speakers' Perceptions of Heritage Languages and Identity [PDF]

open access: yesJournal 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
doaj   +1 more source

The place of Somali in the resistance of Ethiopia against the Italian colonial forces in the Ogaden, 1915 to 1941

open access: yesCogent 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
doaj   +1 more source

Predictors of language proficiency and cultural identification in heritage bilinguals

open access: yesFrontiers 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
doaj   +1 more source

Multilingualism in Sao Tomé and Principe: Use of Subtitling Approach

open access: yesDarnioji 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
doaj   +1 more source

Big questions for small animals. Taphonomic analysis of small vertebrates in Matja Kuru 2 (Timor-Leste) during the late pleistocene

open access: yesQuaternary 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
doaj   +1 more source

Cherishing the heritage language: Predictors of parental heritage language maintenance efforts

open access: yesInternational Journal of Bilingualism, 2022
Aims: Multilingual families are often challenged with the transmission of their heritage language (HL) to future generations. Departing from this observation, this study aims to investigate which factors correlate with multilingual families’ HL maintenance efforts.
Ily Hollebeke   +4 more
openaire   +3 more sources

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