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Interpreting language-learning data [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
This book provides a forum for methodological discussions emanating from researchers engaged in studying how individuals acquire an additional language.
Gudmestad, Aarnes; Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University   +18 more
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Language Teacher Wellbeing across the Career Span

open access: yes, 2023
Teacher wellbeing is gaining prominence in the realm of educational psychology, although it remains a relatively nascent domain. This trend is propelled by a perceptible shift in research focus, transitioning from an overwhelming emphasis on student ...
Muhammet Yaşar YÜZLÜ
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The Straw that Broke the Language's Back: Language Shift in the Upper Necaxa Valley of Mexico [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This article examines the factors that have led to a shift to Spanish in the Upper Necaxa Totonac communities of east-central Mexico. Despite the fact that Spanish and Totonac have been in contact since before the eighteenth century, the shift to the ...
Lam, Y., Dorian, N.C.
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On explaining language shift: Sociology or social psychology of language? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This study investigates the potentials and limits of sociolinguistic re- search on language shift. Starting from a position that the ultimate goal of the research must be to create a general theory of language shift of predictive power, the author ...
Péter Maitz, Maitz, Péter
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Reconsidering language shift within Singapore’s Chinese community: A Bourdieusian analysis

open access: yes, 2017
The official narrative told by national census data in Singapore is that of massive language shift within one generation from a myriad of Chinese dialects towards Mandarin and English as dominant home languages.
Bokhorst-Heng, W. D. (Wendy Diana)   +1 more
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The Maori language in New Zealand: a case study of language shift [PDF]

open access: yes, 1983
This thesis examines the language shift that has occurred among the Maori people of New Zealand. The displacement of the Maori language by English is described in terms of current theories of language loss involving factors such as bilingualism and ...
Love, Patricia A.
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Contact-induced disturbances in personal pronoun systems in the Chadic – Benue-Congo convergence zone in Central Nigeria

open access: yesAfrika und Übersee, 2020
The paper looks at personal pronoun systems in languages of the convergence zone on both sides of the borderline between Benue-Congo and Chadic. Focus is on inventories and systems, meaning the overall interrelationship of pronoun shapes across the ...
H. Ekkehard Wolff
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Complexity and Simplification in Language Shift

open access: yesFrontiers in Communication, 2021
This paper examines the question of linguistic complexity in two shift ecologies in northeastern Russia. It is frequently claimed that language shift results in linguistic simplification across a range of domains in the grammars of shifting speakers ...
Jessica Kantarovich   +5 more
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Literary Bilingualism: Past and Present

open access: yesPolylinguality and Transcultural Practices, 2018
The paperdeals with some aspects related to the history and present state of bilingualism as the phenomenon of literary creation. Nowadays it is often connected with the process of globalization.
Georgiy Teimurazovich Khukhuni
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LANGUAGE MAINTENANCE IN AN INTERRACIAL MARRIAGE: THE CASE OF INDONESIAN FEMALES’ LANGUAGE CHOICE IN CANADA

open access: yesIndonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2021
This study aims to investigate Indonesian females’ language choice in their interracial family in the home domain and factors that contribute to their language choice.
Rahmawaty Kadir
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