Abstracts Archive

This study aims to explore multilingual lived experience regarding translanguaging in foreign language learning and everyday life. The personal experience of an ethnic minority, who is a Mongol living in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of China (also known as Mongol-Chinese) and a speaker of Mo...

Active Guarani Learning Resource: Development of multimedia resources to learn and teach the Guarani language online develops an open virtual platform with resources and web tools to teach and learn the Guarani language. This resource contributes to the application of Law 4251 of Paraguayan Language...

One of the most influential movements on language in recent years has been the growing attention to language rights, particularly as they affect linguistic minorities (both indigenous and migrant groups).   Research on language rights has focused on formal language-rights statements (e.g., by t...

The linguistic reality of the Basque education system continues to be a challenge for teachers. However, according to studies from the Genoa School (Idiazabal, 1990) and the latest contributions to the multilingual reality of our schools through sustainable translanguaging (Cenoz & Gorter, 2016)...

This presentation details a project to create the first digital archive documenting the linguistic diversity and minority endangered languages of Hong Kong. It focuses on different languages as well as language varieties that are part of Hong Kong's heritage. The aim of the project is to create an e...

Discussions of multilingualisms in current western-Global North-literature have tended to focus on how increased ethnolinguistic diversification (or superdiversification) is taking place with urbanization due to complex immigration flows. In contrast, throughout post-Soviet Eurasia, countries have b...

After proposing the Belt & Road initiative in 2013, increasing attention has been devoted to developing and supporting non-common foreign language (NCFL) schooling in China. This paper seeks to unpack the historical transitions of how policymakers encourage (or conversely, di...

 Language and culture are discursively constructed as technical skills in exchange for marketable values. This is particularly true with ethnic minority languages and cultures which are gaining increasing importance and emerging as commodities for promoting tourism and the local economy. Adopti...

Acoustic experiments extracted resonance peak F1 and F2 data to analyze the first-order vowels in the Kunming dialect. The experimental results showed that the seven first-order vowels in the Kunming dialect are prelingual high vowel /i/, postlingual high vowel /u/, postlingual low vowel /ᴀ/, prel...

This study investigates the changes and recent development of English education in the most closed-off country North Korea with its own Juche (i.e., self-reliance) ideology advocated by Kim Il Sung, founder of North Korea, analyzing the characteristics of secondary English textbooks p...

This paper presents a chronological study of the changing status of Malayalam in Singapore across three different periods over the last century, identified on the basis of significant migration trends: (1)1900 - 1960s, a period predominantly oriented toward language maintenance; (2) 1970 - 1990s, a ...

Language has operated as a vehicle for debate about cultural, national, and individual identity throughout history. Social media and language use in digitised contexts have allowed the study of the intricacies of identity negotiation and community construction to be explored more closely. The discou...

As a result of the standards for recognizing researchers' publications, English has become the lingua franca for academic dissemination and minority languages have been neglected in the scientific community. One of these languages is Basque, a language spoken in the Basque Country. In the last decad...