Support, Transmission, Education and Target Varieties in the Celtic - Language

Informationen zum Autor Noel Ó Murchadha is Assistant Professor in Language Education at Trinity College Dublin! Ireland. He teaches courses on bi/multilingualism! language pedagogy and research methods in language and education. His research focuses on attitudes and ideologies on linguistic variation! especially in minority contexts. He has completed projects on teenagers' and educators' perceptions of linguistic variation in Irish and on language standardisation. His work examines the changing relationship between self and society in late modernity and the impact that such changes have on language variation and change in minoritised contexts.Bettina Migge is Professor of Linguistics and Head of the School of Languages! Cultures and Linguistics at University College Dublin! Ireland. She is a member of the research group CNRS-SeDyL (France). She teaches courses in sociolinguistics and contact linguistics and has published extensively on diachronic and synchronic language contact! language variation and change! language documentation in multilingual contexts focusing on lesser-used languages and on identity formation in contexts of migration. Empirically! her research has focused on the Creoles of Suriname and French Guiana! the Gbe languages (Benin) and more recently on Irish English. Zusammenfassung This volume aims to shed light on some of the main issues facing the Celtic languages into the future and to showcase different approaches to studying such contexts. This book was originally published as a special issue of Language, Culture and Curriculum. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Support, transmission, education and target varieties in the Celtic languages: an overview 1. Celtic languages and sociolinguistics: a very brief overview of pertinent issues 2. ‘Is it really for talking?’: the implications of associating a minority language with the school 3. Factors influencing the likelihood of choice of Gaelic-medium primary education in Scotland: results from a national public survey 4. Developing resources for translanguaging in minority language contexts: A case study of rapping in an Irish primary school 5. Finding an ideological niche for new speakers in a minoritised language community ...

Product details

• Authors: Noel Migge O Murchadha
• Assisted by: Bettina Migge (Editor), Migge Bettina (Editor), Noel Ó Murchadha (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.05.2018
• EAN: 9781138498396
• ISBN: 978-1-138-49839-6
• No. of pages: 108
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; EDUCATION / General, Organization & management of education, Educational administration and organization, Teaching skills and techniques, Educational strategies & policy, Teaching skills & techniques, Teaching of a specific subject, Celtic languages, Higher & further education, tertiary education, Bilingualism & multilingualism, Higher education, tertiary education, Primary & middle schools, Educational: Languages other than English, Bilingualism and multilingualism, Primary and middle schools, Educational strategies and policy, Educational: Modern (non-native or second) languages