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LANGUAGE CONTACTS IN KAZAKHSTAN: THE LANGUAGE OF MULTILINGUAL YOUTH

Bulletin of the Eurasian Humanities Institute, Philology Series, 2022
This article examines the condition of language contacts in Kazakhstan. In particular, the issue of language contacts in higher educational institutions, where the main disciplines related to the majors in the country are taught in English. Now the number of such educational institutions is growing.
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The language attitudes of bilingual youth in multilingual Singapore

Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2009
Abstract This paper is about the language attitudes that bilingual youth in Singapore have towards their Mother Tongue and English, and towards codeswitching between the two. The language attitudes of 443 primary school students were investigated using a variation of the matched-guise technique.
Wendy D. Bokhorst-Heng, Imelda Santos Caleon   +1 more
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Spoken Word Poetry with Multilingual Youth from Refugee Backgrounds

Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2021
AbstractThis article reports insights from a spoken word poetry workshop conducted with youth from refugee backgrounds and their teachers at a large suburban secondary school. The broad aim of engaging spoken word poetry in the educational context was to encourage and listen to student voice and creative self‐expression, and to explore opportunities ...
Jennifer Burton, Saskia Van Viegen
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Columns: Teaching Multilingual Learners: Developing Our Pedagogies for Multilingual Youth with Multilingual Youth

English Journal
Youth researchers developed a conversational game about immigration to host community discussions about language, migration, and home— a process and curricular resource that highlights multilingual learners’ strengths and experiences.
Melody Zoch, Leah Panther, Lisa York
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Multilingual Youth Perspectives on Humanizing Core Practices

2020
In this chapter, the authors draw upon the teaching practices multilingual youth identified as important to their learning in the classroom, to add to the field's understanding of core practices for teaching multilingual learners. This qualitative study highlights various strategies that secondary immigrant multilingual youth recommend teachers use ...
Daisy E. Fredricks, Megan Madigan Peercy
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Fluid Multilingual Practices among Youth in Cameroon and Mozambique

2020
Abstract Inspired by recent epistemological and ontological debates aimed at unsettling and reshaping conceptions of language, this essay discusses how mainstream sociolinguistics offers notions meaningful for studying contexts of the South.
Torun Reite, Francis Badiang Oloko, Manuel Armando Guissemo   +2 more
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Multilingualism and identity construction: A case study of a Uyghur female youth

Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 2022
AbstractDrawing on a poststructuralist perspective on identity and elite multilingualism, I traced one Uyghur female's multilingual learning experiences in this case study. Using semistructured interviews as the primary data source, I illustrate that by drawing upon multiple affordances, my Uyghur participant was able to expand her repertoire of ...
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Karenni Youth, Multilingual Practices, and Transnational Literacy

2016
The chapter focuses on the participants’ transnational multilingual repertoires and how they utilize both previously and recently acquired languages in various ways and settings. The discussion also includes how linguistic practices such as translanguaging serve as an alternative in communication and in situations that require English language and ...
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Language and youth identity in a multilingual setting: A multimodal repertoire approach

Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, 2014
This article is based on a study of a community of multilingual adolescents in Johannesburg which examines participants’ linguistic repertoires and how they use their linguistic resources as a basis for identity construction, integration and performance. This kind of linguistic multiplicity lends itself to subtle and occasionally subversive positioning,
Bristowe, Anthea, Oostendorp, Marcelyn, Anthonissen, Christine   +2 more
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Learning Chinese as a Heritage Language by Two Multilingual Youths in Indonesia

2017
The Chinese in Indonesia have become the subject of numerous research studies. Most of these studies investigate the political, economic and social aspects of the Chinese population. The lives of the Chinese Indonesians have been marked by their struggle to survive and to adjust to the local life while having to make political decisions about whether ...
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