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Translanguaging and minoritised language revitalisation in multilingual classrooms: Examining teachers’ agency

Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, 2022
In multilingual classrooms, pedagogical translanguaging has been touted as a transformative and empowering practice to support minoritised languages. This study examines how teachers’ orientations and attitudes towards students’ translanguaging influence
Busani Maseko
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Enregistering authenticity in language revitalisation

Journal of Sociolinguistics, 2018
Authenticity is a key concept of language revitalisation; any attempt to restore the language practices of the past aims at achieving the authentic language. Since, as much of recent sociolinguistic scholarship has argued, this goal can only be met through metapragmatic activities, the emically defined success of language revitalisation also depends on
Csanád Bodó, Noémi Fazakas
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Translation for language revitalisation: efforts and challenges in documenting botanical knowledge of Thailand’s Northern Khmer speakers

Multilingua, 2022
This research examines the Thai and English translation equivalents of Northern Khmer ethnobotanical terms and the corresponding translation strategies, along with the translators’ reflections on their role as language revitalisation agents. The ultimate
Narongdej Phanthaphoommee, Siripen Ungsitipoonporn   +1 more
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Evaluating Language Revitalisation. The Case of Zorja

Lětopis – Zeitschrift für Sorabistik und vergleichende Minderheitenforschung
Evaluating Language Revitalization. The Case of Zorja The Zorja project is the first immersive language-learning programme for adults in the Lower Sorbian context.
Lutz Laschewski, Sophie Rädel
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Mapoyo language revitalisation at risk: when variation leads to uncertainty

Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2022
Mapoyo, a Carib language of Venezuela with only one native language speaker, is very close to becoming dormant. Recent interest in the revitalisation of the language has led to classes being imparted in the elementary school and to teachers trying to ...
Tania Granadillo
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Grassroots activism and former marginalised indigenous language revitalisation: the case of Tonga in Zimbabwe

Journal of Contemporary African Studies
Minority language revitalisation is increasingly recognised as central to cultural preservation, human rights, and decolonial transformation. This study explores how grassroots activism contributes to the revitalisation of minority languages, focusing on
Talent Mudenda
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The Use of Technologies in Language Revitalisation Projects: Exploring Identities

Journal of global indigeneity, 2022
Historically, Indigenous-language speakers have tried to counter the effects of colonising forces on their cultures by speaking their languages as much as they could, even when this represented going through traumatic experiences (Hermes & Kawai’ae’a ...
Marcela I. Huilcán Herrera
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What Constitutes Success in a Language Revitalisation Initiative? Views from the Kalanga Speech Community

Language Matters
Several innovative language revitalisation programmes have been initiated in different parts of the world since the 1970s, to contain the alarming tide of language extinction.
Isaac Mumpande, L. Barnes
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Language revitalisation in Gaelic Scotland: linguistic practice and ideology

Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2021
The focus of this research study is on the role that immersion education plays in language revitalisation.
M. O. Laoire
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Mobile-Assisted Informal Collaborative Learning for Irula Language Revitalisation: A Mixed-Methods Study

Shanlax International Journal of Education
The Irula language, spoken by India's indigenous Irula tribes in the Western Ghats of Tamil Nadu, faces critical endangerment due to socioeconomic pressures and the dominance of mainstream languages.
Arul Dayanand, M. Parthasarathy
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