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Exploring goals and motivations of Māori heritage language learners

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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Bible translations for the minorities’ languages today: A biblical theological exploration

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2021
The contemporary world is a harsh environment for many languages and cultures. Globalisation is one of the powerful forces that are increasing the pressure on some languages to become extinct.
Tshitangoni C. Rabali
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Opponents and supporters of water policy change in the Netherlands and Hungary [PDF]

, 2010
This paper looks at the role of individuals and the strategies that they use to bring about or oppose major policy change. Current analysis of the role that individuals or small collectives play in periods of major policy change has focussed on ...
Roth, D., Warner, J.F., Werners, S.E.
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Faclair na Gàidhlig and Corpas na Gàidhlig: New Approaches Make Sense [PDF]

, 2013
For minority languages in the twenty-first century increasingly overshadowed by their global counterparts, language maintenance and revitalisation are of paramount importance. Closely linked to these issues is the question of corpus planning.
O Maolalaigh, Roibeard, Pike, Lorna
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Bilingual/immersion education in Aotearoa/New Zealand: Setting the context. [PDF]

, 2005
Introduction to a special issue of IJBEB, focusing on recent developments in bilingual/ immersion education in Aotearoa/New Zealand, particularly, but not solely, Maori-medium ...
May, Stephen
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Community Self-Organisation from a Social-Ecological Perspective: ‘Burlang Yatra’ and Revival of Millets in Odisha (India) [PDF]

, 2020
In this paper, I focus on the revival of an Indigenous community seed festival known locally as Burlang Yatra (‘Indigenous Biodiversity Festival’) in the district of Kandhamal in Odisha (India).
Saxena, Lopamudra Patnaik
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Changes in the pronunciation of Māori and implications for teachers and learners of Māori [PDF]

, 2009
This paper discusses changes in the pronunciation of Māori and implications for teachers and learners of Māori. Data on changes in the pronunciation of Māori derives from the MAONZE project (Māori and New Zealand English with support from the Marsden ...
Harlow, Ray, Keegan, Peter J., King, Jeanette, Maclagan, Margaret, Watson, Catherine I.   +4 more
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Arctic pedagogy in practice? A story of revitalisation of Scots language in an Aberdeenshire learning community and beyond

Education in the North
This paper addresses the question of how to revitalise and sustain Indigenous language learning in school and the wider community, tracking the experience of efforts to do so and the lessons learned with North-East Scots (Doric) in an Aberdeenshire ...
Jamie Fairbairn
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Opposing English, Contesting Capitalism: Pearse’s and Connolly’s discourses on the “Necessity for De-Anglicising Ireland” in the Early 20th Century

Anglophonia, 2022
This article looks at the way two major Irish political figures of the early 20th century, Pádraic H. Pearse and James Connolly, articulated language questions with political economy analyses.
Kevin Petit Cahill
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Maori-medium education: current issues and challenges. [PDF]

, 2005
This paper summarises the key issues and challenges that have emerged from a recent major report by the authors on Maori-medium education in Aotearoa/New Zealand.
Hill, Richard Kenneth, May, Stephen
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