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Accepting a “New” Standard Variety: Comparing Explicit Attitudes in Luxembourg and Belgium
Languages, 2021 Language maintenance efforts aim to bolster attitudes towards endangered languages by providing them with a standard variety as a means to raise their status and prestige. However, the introduced variety can vary in its degrees of standardisation.
Judit Vari, Marco Tamburelli
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Literator, 2023 The Use of Official Languages Act (No. 12 of 2012) applies to all national departments and state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in South Africa and stipulates that they should promote multilingualism when interacting with members of the public and/or customers.
Lungisani Xolani Khumalo +2 more
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Languages, 2021 This paper explores how attitudes affect the seemingly objective process of counting speakers of varieties using the example of Low German, Germany’s sole regional language.
Astrid Adler
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Languages, 2021 In Austria, Turkish immigrants have long suffered from the stigma of being the uneducated and unintegrated guestworker, often portrayed as marginalised and as living in parallel societies.
Johannes Woschitz
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How to Ensure Bilingualism/Biliteracy in an Indigenous Context: The Case of Icelandic Sign Language
Languages, 2021 The paper discusses the implementation of a bilingual education language policy in the context of endangered indigenous sign language—Icelandic Sign Language (íslenskt táknmál, ÍTM).
Elena Koulidobrova +1 more
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LANGUAGE ATTITUDES OF INDONESIANS AS EFL LEARNERS, GENDER, AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATUS
LLT Journal: A Journal on Language and Language Teaching, 2018 This study explored the language attitude in terms of gender and socio-economic status (SES) in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The aim of this study was to find out the relationships among five components of languages attitudes in terms of gender and socio ...
Dirtya Sunyi Paradewari +1 more
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Languages, 2021 Despite the prevalence of mixed language programs across the United States, their impact on the unique socio-affective needs of heritage language (HL) students has not been researched sufficiently.
Laura Gasca Jiménez +1 more
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LLT Journal: A Journal on Language and Language Teaching, 2018 This research aimed to explore language attitudes of Indonesian EFL learners towards English and Indonesian and studied the relationship of language attitudes in terms of educational background and study programs.
Monika Dini Kurniasari +1 more
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Languages, 2020 The present study analyzes the prosodic characteristics of the variety of Spanish in contact with Basque (in the Basque Country, Spain). We focus on information-seeking yes/no questions, which present different intonation contours in Spanish and Basque ...
Magdalena Romera, Gorka Elordieta
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A Corpus-Assisted Discourse Study of Attitudes toward Spanish as a Heritage Language in Florida
Languages, 2021 Spanish speakers constitute the largest heritage language community in the US. The state of Florida is unusual in that, on one hand, it has one of the highest foreign-born resident rates in the country, most of whom originate from Latin America—but on ...
Ethan Kutlu, Ruth Kircher
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