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Language Awareness and Minority Languages

2015
Providing an overview of ideas about as well as practices aiming at the promotion of minority languages at school through fostering pupils’ language awareness, this chapter starts with a sketch of some early developments in the scholarly interest in language awareness related to minority languages.
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Language Minorities and Language Maintenance

Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 1997
The position of minority groups and the maintenance of their languages are very much in the news today. For (largely) indigenous minorities, consider the case of continental Europe: As it moves—sometimes erratically—towards federalism, its minorities and its “stateless” peoples are pressing for increased and improved recognition.
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Minorities and Language

2006
The relationship between minorities and language is complicated and related to the development of nation-states. Language minorities, as a social group, are distinguished from minority languages. The definition of minority is problematic. The size of a minority can differ widely. For membership, there is the issue of who counts as a speaker.
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Language choice in a minority school

International Review of Education, 1985
This article arises from fieldwork in a school of the German minority in South Jutland, Denmark. The minority exists as a result of frontier changes between Germany and Denmark, most recently in 1920. A referendum held in that year as a result of the Treaty of Versailles left a cultural and linguistic minority which, by today, has its own school system,
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The State of Minority Languages

1995
In many respects, the state of minority languages reflects the dynamics of the society at large. On the eve of the year 2000, many minority languages are threatened by rapid modernisation and urbanisation; we see languages in decline for the simple reason that speakers have to reconsider language choice when entering larger social, political and ...
Fase, W., Jaspaert, K., Kroon, S.
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Language Policy, Literacy, and Minority Languages

Review of Policy Research, 1994
This paper surveys the development of language policy over the last 40 or more years, particularly with respect to linguistic minorities and the attendant problems of illiteracy and lack of access to basic education among these groups. While there are discernible, emerging trends in the area of language policy, we make considerable effort to point out ...
Stephen L. Walter, Kay R. Ringenberg
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