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Participatory Policy Development: Reflections on Designing the Strong Roots for Our Futures Program in Victoria

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this paper, we trace the journey to create the Strong Roots for our Futures Program, a government program to resource and support Traditional Owners to undertake a range of activities in areas where no state recognition existed. We provide a background to state recognition in Victoria before considering the program design, leading to an ...
Nell Reidy   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Family expectations towards Spanish language maintenance and heritage language programs in Germany

open access: yesJournal of World Languages, 2023
Family and educational institutions are the main centers of socialization in heritage language. Beyond the communicative and learning dynamics that take place in both environments, linguistic socialization also depends to a large extent on the ...
Álvarez Mella Héctor   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Ultimate attainment in the use of collocations among heritage speakers of Turkish in Germany and Turkish–German returnees [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
In this paper we show that heritage speakers and returnees are fundamentally different from the majority of adult second language learners with respect to their use of collocations (Laufer & Waldman, 2011).
Aarssen   +33 more
core   +1 more source

Building Community Amidst the Institutional Whiteness of Graduate Study: Black Joy and Maroon Moves in an Academic Marronage

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article reflects on the construction of a supportive community of Black Afro‐diasporic graduate students and their supervisors researching issues relating to race in the field of education in Australia. It draws on the concept of marronage—a term rooted in the fugitive act of becoming a maroon, where enslaved people enacted an escape in ...
Hellen Magoi   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Heritage Language Maintenance and Use among 1.5 Generation Khmer College Students

open access: yesJournal of Southeast Asian American Education and Advancement, 2009
Most studies of heritage language maintenance have reported a steep attrition in heritage language use among the 1.5 and 2nd generation children of immigrants, in particular among East Asian groups.
Ravy S. Lao, Jin Sook Lee
doaj   +3 more sources

Brazilian Bimodal Bilinguals as Heritage Signers

open access: yesLanguages, 2018
This paper presents an analysis of heritage signers: bimodal bilinguals, who are adult hearing children of Deaf parents who acquired sign language at home with their parents and the spoken language from the surrounding community.
Ronice Müller de Quadros   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Linguistic commodification in tourism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Drawing on fieldwork conducted between 2002 and 2012 in Switzerland, Catalunya and different zones of francophone Canada in sites related to heritage and cultural tourism, we argue that tourism, especially i n multilingual peripheries, is a key site for ...
Duchêne, Alexandre   +2 more
core   +2 more sources

On the Prospects for African Philosophy in Australia

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper grapples with the situation of people of African descent in Australia by working through the constitution of the body of academic philosophy in the country. It contends with the parochialism of the Australian philosophical community and the prospects for the cultivation of greater pluralism. Taking African philosophy as one possible
Bryan Mukandi
wiley   +1 more source

College-Level Arabic Heritage Learners: Do they belong in Separate Classrooms? [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages, 2016
Arabic heritage language learners have different skills, needs, and reasons to study the language than true beginners. This study highlights these elements, justifying heritage language learners’ placement into classes specifically addressing these ...
Hana Zabarah
doaj   +1 more source

Heritage Languages and Their Speakers: Opportunities and Challenges for Linguistics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
In this paper, we bring to the attention of the linguistic community recent research on heritage languages. Shifting linguistic attention from the model of a monolingual speaker to the model of a multilingual speaker is important for the advancement of ...
Benmamoun, Elabbas   +2 more
core   +1 more source

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