Language, Ethnicity, and Education in Wales
Language, Ethnicity, and Education in Wales

Author: Bud B. Khleif

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2019-07-22

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 3110808730

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The Contributions to the Sociology of Language series features publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It addresses the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches - theoretical and empirical - supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of scholars interested in language in society from a broad range of disciplines - anthropology, education, history, linguistics, political science, and sociology. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Natalie Fecher.

Language, Ethnicity, and Education
Language, Ethnicity, and Education

Author: Peter Broeder

Publisher: Multilingual Matters

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 142

ISBN-13: 9781853594304

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The book presents case studies of immigrant minority groups and immigrant minority languages in Europe and abroad, analysed from demographic, sociolinguistic, and educational perspectives. The demographic perspective focuses on the role of language and ethnicity in multicultural population statistics, the sociolinguistic perspective on the vitality of immigrant minority languages, and the educational perspective on the status of immigrant minority languages in education.

Language, Communication and Education
Language, Communication and Education

Author: Barbara Mayor

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2005-08-16

Total Pages: 478

ISBN-13: 1135785554

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Examines communication in the classroom within the larger context of the development of standard English and its social implications.

New Perspectives on Modern Wales
New Perspectives on Modern Wales

Author: Sabine Asmus

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2019-01-08

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13: 1527524388

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This book discusses issues of Welsh literature, history and the vernacular language of the devolved region of Wales (as a part of the United Kingdom of Northern Ireland and Great Britain). In this context, the volume sheds light on various aspects of the identity construction of a small nation with an endangered language, which is a P-Celtic tongue, known for exhibiting many features alien to Indo-European and SAE languages. All the issues tackled here are presented in diachronic and synchronic perspective, allowing for correlations to be drawn with similar problems faced by other cultures. As such, the volume will be of interest to anyone promoting Wales and Welsh culture within and outside the country, as well as journalists, politicians, linguists, literary scholars, historians, and those interested in areal studies focusing on the UK.

European Models of Bilingual Education
European Models of Bilingual Education

Author: Hugo Baetens Beardsmore

Publisher: Multilingual Matters

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 9781853591822

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Describes well established, non-experimental forms of bilingual education in publicly funded, non-elitist schools throughout Europe: Welsh in Britain, Catalan and Basque in Spain, heritage language maintenance in Belgium, trilingual education in the entire Luxembourg school system, and others. Focuses on the perspective of the administrator and the teacher. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Routledge Revivals: The Other Languages of England (1985)
Routledge Revivals: The Other Languages of England (1985)

Author: Xavier Couillaud

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-02-06

Total Pages: 407

ISBN-13: 1315278596

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The ‘other’ languages of England — those which originate in South and East Asia, and Southern and Eastern Europe — are now important parts of everyday life in urban England. First published in 1985, this book gives detailed information about which languages are in widespread use among children and adults, patterns of language use in different social contexts, the teaching of these community languages inside and outside of mainstream schools, and the educational implications of this linguistic diversity for all children in England. They authors argue that this continued and widespread bilingualism is a valuable potential resource for both the speakers and society as a whole.

The Celtic Connection
The Celtic Connection

Author: Glanville Price

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 9780861402489

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As the Editor points out, the Celtic identity is not one of race - the genetic links, if they are there at all, just cannot be proved - but it is of a common linguistic and cultural heritage. The Celtic Connection focuses on the similarities and differences in language across the Celtic nations and contributes to the resurgence of interest in the Celtic identity which is increasingly being supported by official bodies, both national and international.

Parents, Personalities and Power
Parents, Personalities and Power

Author: Huw Thomas

Publisher: University of Wales Press

Published: 2013-04-15

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 0708325858

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This pioneering volume is the first ever to investigate in depth the myriad interconnected influences on the phenomenal growth of Welsh-medium schools over the last half century and probe the foreseeable challenges that they will have to face.