Heritage Language Policies Around The World


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Heritage Language Policies around the World


Heritage Language Policies around the World

Author: Corinne A. Seals

language: en

Publisher: Routledge

Release Date: 2017-09-18


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Heritage language policies define the context in which heritage languages are maintained or abandoned by communities, and this volume describes and analyzes international policy strategies, as well as the implications for the actual heritage language speakers. This volume brings together heritage language policy case studies from around the world, foregrounding globalization by covering five regions: the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australasia. The countries profiled include the United States, Canada, Argentina, Norway, Sweden, Ireland, Uganda, Namibia, Morocco, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, New Zealand, Australia, and Fiji. This volume also highlights an expanded definition of ‘heritage language’, choosing to focus on individual and community identities, and therefore including both Indigenous and immigrant languages. Focusing specifically on language policy relating to heritage languages, the chapters address key questions such as Are heritage languages included or excluded from the national language policy discourse? What are the successes and shortcomings of efforts to establish heritage language policies? What is the definition of ‘heritage language’ in official usage by the local/regional government and stakeholders? How are these language policies perceived by the actual heritage language communities?

The Cambridge Handbook of Heritage Languages and Linguistics


The Cambridge Handbook of Heritage Languages and Linguistics

Author: Silvina Montrul

language: en

Publisher:

Release Date: 2021


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"Definitions of heritage languages include the languages of migrant, indigenous, and national minorities. This chapter is concerned with migrant minorities. The EU is generally pictured as valuing multilingualism, as reflected by EU policies and citizen's attitudes. Nevertheless, when Europeans think and speak about protecting multilingualism, they do not necessarily have migrant languages in mind, although these are more numerous than other minorities in terms of both language diversity and number of speakers. The chapter summarizes linguistic research on HSs in Europe covering early childhood, primary school/adolescence and adulthood, making reference to (morpho-)syntax, phonology and vocabulary. The goal is to uncover common outcomes and missing links. The focus differs across these research areas, but crosslinguistic influence is a common denominator, and the examples witness that research has gone beyond highlighting differences between monolinguals and HSs. Scenarios suggest that HSs may anticipate or resist language change, and that adult HSs often stay within the limits of what is possible in the baseline or related varieties. I conclude by pointing out the lack of comparisons across generations, an overrepresentation of specific languages families, and by suggesting that research drawing analogies with other situations of language contact and change are highly desirable"--

Family and School Involvement in Multilingual Education and Heritage Language Development


Family and School Involvement in Multilingual Education and Heritage Language Development

Author:

language: en

Publisher: BRILL

Release Date: 2024-09-23


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This edited volume is a collection of studies guided by theoretical and practical interdisciplinary approaches to family and school involvement in multilingual education and heritage language development featuring contributors with expertise in applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, language policy and education. The authors of this volume discuss multilingualism and multiculturalism in various geographical areas, settings, and levels of education, from a theoretical and practical point of view. They present a wide variety of theoretical perspectives, teachers, and students’ views as well as other stakeholders such as policy makers, authorities and parents on family and school involvement in multilingual education and heritage language development.