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Integration Patterns in Host Societies Analysed on the Basis of Alphabet Book Content for Russian Schools in Limitrophe States in the First Third of the Twentieth Century
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Kozlova, Maria – History of Education, 2020
This paper examines the content of alphabet books published for Russian-speaking children in Latvia, Estonia and Poland in the 1920s and explains the nexus between socio-cultural context and representation of social environment and children's interactions to explore strategies of adaptation offered to children. The textbooks were quantified using…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Textbooks, Russian, Cultural Context
Moving the Field Forward: A Micro-Meso-Macro Model for Critical Language Planning. The Case of Estonia
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Skerrett, Delaney Michael – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2016
This study investigates "de facto" language policy in Estonia. It investigates how language choices at the micro (or individual) level are negotiated within the macro (or social and historical) context: how official language policy and other features of the discursive environment surrounding language and its use in Estonia translate into…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Foreign Countries, Language Usage, Social Environment
The Impact of Inter-Ethnic Discordance on Subjective Vitality Perceptions
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Ehala, Martin; Zabrodskaja, Anastassia – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2011
Subjective ethno-linguistic vitality expresses a group's perception of its own ability to act as a distinctive collective entity in intergroup encounters. Although subjective vitality questionnaires have proved to be reliable instruments of measurement, there has been criticism that they underestimate actual vitality (see Yagmur, this issue). A…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Correlation, Foreign Countries, Language Attitudes
Sociocultural Aspects of Russian-Speaking Parents' Choice of Language of Instruction for Their Children in Estonia
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Kemppainen, Raija Pini; Ferrin, Scott Ellis; Hite, Steven J.; Hilton, Sterling C. – Comparative Education Review, 2008
The present research was undertaken to identify sociocultural variables that influence whether Russian-speaking parents living in Estonia choose Russian, Estonian, or bilingual (Russian and Estonian) instruction for their children. To examine which sociocultural variables are related to parents' choice of language of instruction, 346…
Descriptors: Language of Instruction, Language Minorities, Foreign Countries, Russian
The Russian Diaspora in Latvia and Estonia: Predicting Language Outcomes.
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Romanov, Artemi – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2000
Focuses on the language situation in the Russian diaspora in Latvia and Estonia and analyzes these factors that are critical in determining language outcomes for a language community within one country that speaks a majority language of another. Examines the possibility of three outcomes: language maintenance, bilingualism, and language shift in a…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Foreign Countries, Language Maintenance, Language Planning
Beyond Linguistic Policy: The Soviet Union Versus Estonia.
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Rannut, Mart – ROLIG papir, 1991
Discussion of the role of non-Russian languages in the Soviet Union (USSR) focuses on the history of ethnic group languages and language policy in Estonia since the collapse of totalitarianism. A historical overview of Soviet Union language policy is offered, with attention given to the ideological goals influencing policy, and their realization…
Descriptors: Communism, Cultural Pluralism, Democratic Values, Elementary Secondary Education