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Enacting Everyday Linguistic Citizenship: Language Life and Multi‐Membership Among Young Malaysian Chinese Immigrants in Australia

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the language life of young Malaysian Chinese immigrants in Australia and their construction of multi‐membership as reflected in their daily language behaviors. It develops the concept of everyday linguistic citizenship and uses this concept as a theoretical lens to understand how the young adults build, maintain, and ...
Xiaoyi Zhang, Trang Thi Thuy Nguyen, John Hajek   +2 more
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Eurocrats Wanted: Why Some Member States Lag in European Commission Recruitment

JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract The article investigates the underrepresentation of certain member states within the European Commission (EC) and explores the broader challenges of achieving geographical balance in European Union (EU) recruitment. Drawing on the theory of representative bureaucracy, the study systematises factors that shape the attractiveness of EU careers ...
Jarolím Antal, Kateřina Kočí, Nicole Grmelová   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Multilingualism in Canadian schools: Myths, realities and possibilities

Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2007
Bilingualism and multiculturalism have for four decades been official ideologies and policies in Canada but, as is often the case, the implementation and outcomes of such government policies nationally are less impressive than the rhetoric would suggest.
Patricia A. Duff
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Personally meaningful life events from adolescence to young adulthood: a longitudinal natural language processing analysis

Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, EarlyView.
Background Large‐scale population‐based studies of risk and protective factors for youth mental health rarely assess youths' first‐hand experiences in their own words. This longitudinal study analyzed young people's self‐reported most important life events and examined how the key topics changed from midadolescence to young adulthood and are associated
David Bürgin, Christina Haag, Lynn Alison Büeler, Laura Bechtiger, Clarissa Janousch, Elena Feldmann, Denis Ribeaud, Manuel Eisner, Viktor von Wyl, Lilly Shanahan   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Speaker Perceptions of Americanisms in Nigerian English

Journal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the perceptions of Americanisms among three generations of Nigerians. While prior research has provided quantitative evidence for American influence in contemporary Nigerian English, the role of language beliefs and ideologies in mediating such changes remains underexplored.
Temitayo Olatoye
wiley   +1 more source

Feasibility of Using a Multilingual Web Survey in Studying the Health of Ethnic Minority Youth

JMIR Research Protocols, 2015
Monolingual Web survey is a common tool for studying adolescent health. However, national languages may cause difficulties for some immigrant-origin youths, which lower their participation rate. In national surveys, the number of ethnic minority groups is often too small to assess their well-being.We studied the feasibility of a multilingual Web survey
Rimpelä Arja, Kinnunen Jaana, Lindfors Pirjo, Rimpelä Arja, Pere Lasse, Malin Maili, Raisamo Susanna   +6 more
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The Shadow Presence of U.S. Models of Parental Involvement in Postcolonial Multilingual Language and Literacy Reforms in Western Highland Mayan Rural School Districts in Guatemala

Journal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study offers a critique of imperialist relations implicit in U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) pedagogical texts and capacity‐building resources designed to support decolonial Indigenous Mayan language and literacy instruction.
Jennifer F. Reynolds
wiley   +1 more source

The Relationship Between Psychological Well‐Being and Second Language Skills Among Refugee Students in Primary Education

Language Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract Teachers of young refugees express concerns about their students’ psychological well‐being and suspect underlying trauma is a hurdle for learning the host country language. This study examines how psychological well‐being (including post‐traumatic stress, internalizing behavior, externalizing behavior, and protective resources) relate to host ...
Hanneke Leeuwestein, Elisa Kupers, Marieke Boelhouwer, Marijn van Dijk   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

YOUTH DISCOURSE IN MULTILINGUAL MAURITIUS: THE PRAGMATIC SIGNIFICANCE OF SWEARING IN MULTIPLE LANGUAGE

STELLENBOSCH PAPERS IN LINGUISTICS PLUS, 2017
Drawing from Dewaele (2010, 2013), this paper seeks to analyse the socio-pragmatics of swearing in face-to-face multilingual conversational encounters and argues that the conversational locus (Auer 1984) of playfulness favours, among others, the co-occurrence of slang and code-switching (CS).
openaire   +5 more sources

“This is the Work I'm Most Proud of”: K‐Pop Fandom and Children's Multilingual Literacy Practices

The Modern Language Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines how children's affective investments in K‐pop generated sustained multilingual literacy practices in an arts‐based bookmaking project. Drawing on Pennycook's concept of language assemblages and Norton's investment framework, and informed by Paris and Alim's distinction between heritage and community practices, we analyse ...
Julie Choi, Rafaela Cleeve Gerkens
wiley   +1 more source