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Transmigrant Students’ Motivation and Problems in Learning Local Languages: Language Maintenance

open access: yesSoshum: Jurnal Sosial dan Humaniora
Some transmigrant students in their interactions with others have desires to get to know other local languages for various reasons including the student's desire to get to know people who speak the local language more intimately.
Gunawan Tambunsaribu
doaj   +1 more source

Why Do Languages Die, and Haw? [PDF]

open access: yesMatn/Pizhūhī-i Adabī, 2006
Nowadays, sociolinguists are of the opimon that languages are organic entities, which go through a predictable life cycle of birth, infancy, maturation, then gradual decay and death.
yahyaa modarres, hasan bashir nejhad
doaj   +1 more source

Language maintenance: why bother? [PDF]

open access: yesmult, 1990
This is a publisher’s version of an article published in Multilingua 1990 published by Walter de Gruyter. This version is reproduced with permission from Walter de Gruyter.
openaire   +2 more sources

Heritage Language and L2 Learning Connections: Views from within Japan [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Bearing in mind the Japanese context, this paper elaborates on how maintenance of international children’s heritage language (HL) might contribute to the spread of bilingualism in the country.
Karsten, Angela   +3 more
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Mining Domain-Specific Thesauri from Wikipedia: A case study [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Domain-specific thesauri are high-cost, high-maintenance, high-value knowledge structures. We show how the classic thesaurus structure of terms and links can be mined automatically from Wikipedia.
Medelyan, Olena   +2 more
core   +5 more sources

Diabetes‐induced vascular calcification is associated with low pyrophosphate and its oral supplementation prevents calcification in diabetic mice

open access: yesFEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Induction of diabetes in three different mouse strains uniformly resulted in an increase in TNAP activity and a reduction in pyrophosphate (PPi) in the circulation. Inhibition of TNAP restored plasma PPi. Diabetes‐induced calcification in the media layer of the aorta was detected only in the Abcc6−/− strain, which is predisposed to ectopic ...
Krisztina Fülöp   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Shift Still Happens: Spanish Language Maintenance in the Face of Growth and Change in the Western United States

open access: yesLanguages
The recent release of 2020 U.S. Census data reflects the continued growth of the Hispanic/Latino population over the last four decades. The Hispanic/Latino population has increased by a factor of 3.25 since 1980, with nearly one in five inhabitants of ...
Devin L. Jenkins
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Minority languages of China [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This chapter looks at language endangerment in the People's Republic of China, focusing on three of the main factors that influence language maintenance in China today: increased contact due to population movements and changes in the economy; the ...
LaPolla, Randy J., Poa, Dory
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Navigating new norms: a systematic review of factors for the development of effective digital tools in higher education

open access: yesFEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
What factors make for an effective digital learning tool in Higher Education? This systematic review identifies elements of a digital tool that published examples reveal to be features of an engaging and impactful digital tool. A systematic literature search yielded 25 research papers for analysis.
Akmal Arzeman   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Students’ Views on Language Diversity and Heritage Language Maintenance in The Indonesian Context

open access: yesIAFOR Journal of Education
Indonesia's linguistic landscape is among the most diverse in the world, yet its many indigenous and minority languages face increasing marginalization amid the widespread use of Bahasa Indonesia and English.
Bayu Andika Prasatyo   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

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