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Purloining Minority Language

Europäisches Journal für Minderheitenfragen, 2018
In post Napoleonic Europe, national minorities have always been considered by states as worthy of special protection and mistrust at the same time. National minorities are communities speaking a minority language, and language in modern Europe has (had ...
Davide Zaffi
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Do minority-language and majority-language students benefit from pedagogical translanguaging in early foreign language development?

Multilingua, 2021
This paper reports findings of a project on pedagogical translanguaging (PTL) among 128 fourth-grade students learning English as a foreign language (EFL) in German primary schools.
H. Hopp, Teresa Kieseier, Jenny Jakisch, Sarah Sturm, Dieter Thoma   +4 more
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Moving beyond Asocial Minority-Language Policy

Scottish Affairs, 2021
This paper exams how asocial symbolic minority-language policy contributes to the social processes of language shift from the perspective of highly threatened languages, such as Scottish Gaelic.
Conchúr Ó Giollagáin, Iain Caimbeul
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Minority languages, cultural policy and minority language media

2017
Enrique Uribe-Jongbloed, Abiodun Salawu
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Language regrets: mixed-ethnic children’s lost opportunity for minority language acquisition in Japan

Multilingua, 2020
Mixed-ethnic children in Japan do not usually acquire the language of their non-Japanese parent. This study looks at their lost opportunity to acquire their minority parent’s language through a retrospective investigation of their language experiences ...

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Ethnic Classroom Composition and Minority Language Use among Classmates: Do Peers Matter for Students’ Language Achievement?

, 2020
This article examines the relationship between ethnic classroom composition and students’ language-related achievement. We investigate whether minority language use among classmates accounts for effects of ethnic composition on minority students ...
Julian Seuring, Camilla Rjosk, Petra Stanat   +2 more
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Language practices and attitudes among young minority language speakers in Thailand

, 2020
Language practices and attitudes among young minority language speakers in Thailand, focusing on the Kui language, are examined. Sociolinguistic data obtained from three months of fieldwork in the northeastern provinces of Surin, Sisaket and Ubon ...
S. Siebenhütter
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Educators’ Target Language Varieties for Language Learners: Orientation Toward ‘Native’ and ‘Nonnative’ Norms in a Minority Language Context

The Modern Language Journal, 2018
Target varieties for language learning are contentious in applied linguistics and sociolinguistics. Debates centre on the nature and utility of alternative norms. Approximation to 'native speaker' practices is the hallmark of language education.
Noel Ó Murchadha, Colin J. Flynn
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