Abstracts Archive

This presentation examines Mexican return migrants belonging to generation 1.5 of undocumented Mexican immigrants in the U.S. This generation defies traditional notions of citizenship associated with nation-states. Building on critical citizenship theories, specifically on the concepts of status, ha...

The issue of language education of adult refugees plays a very important role in the integration of refugee and migrant populations and the recognition of linguistic repertoires and multilingual needs may form the planning dynamics of relevant programs and tailor-made courses. Linguistic integration...

Research into heritage language (HL) learner identity has acknowledged the interconnection between HL learner identity and motivation of learning HL. However, not much research has been dedicated to analysing how changes in motivation occurred and how these changes associated with identity...

The number of students studying abroad in non-language learning-oriented, English-medium degree programs in China has increased dramatically. Despite many students plan to pursue a career in China, a growing trend in Chinese higher education institutes is to offer programs taught exclusively in...

Research on Chinese immigrant children's bilingualism in English-speaking countries has generally focused on English-Chinese bilingual development. Little attention has been devoted to Chinese children's bilingual development in their dialectal languages such as Cantonese or Shanghaiese and the stan...