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Valeriya Minakova – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Changing orientations to language, informed by poststructuralism and postcolonialism, challenge modernist representations of languages as bounded entities, tied to particular territories and identities (Canagarajah, 2019; Makoni and Pennycook, 2007). Viewing language as a hybrid and fluid practice, these developments question the theoretical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Maintenance, Indigenous Knowledge, Indigenous Populations
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De Korne, Haley – Language Policy, 2010
The vitality of most Indigenous languages in North America, like minority languages in many parts of the world, is at risk due to the pressures of majority languages and cultures. The transmission of Indigenous languages through school-based programs is a wide-spread approach to maintaining and revitalizing threatened languages in Canada and the…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Public Schools, Bilingual Education, Community Control