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Informal Bilingual Teachers' Language Practices and the Consequences on Pupils' Language Choices in a Situation of Unequal Bilingualism: The Case of an Upper Sorbian Education System
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Dolowy-Rybinska, Nicole – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2020
This paper investigates how bilingual Upper Sorbian-German teachers who belong to the Sorbian speech community (Lusatia, Germany) introduce the minority language during German language lessons in an Upper Sorbian school. In Lusatia, as well as in Sorbian schools, bilingualism is not of equal character; minority language speakers are all bilingual…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Bilingual Teachers, Language Minorities, German
Learning Upper Sorbian. The Problems with Minority Language Education for Non-Native Pupils in The Upper Sorbian Grammar School in Bautzen/Budyšin
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Dolowy-Rybinska, Nicole – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2021
This study examines the attitudes of German-speaking pupils towards Sorbian-language education and the problems these pupils indicate as an obstacle to becoming bilingual through educational settings. Based on the research carried out in the Upper Sorbian Grammar School in Bautzen/Budyšin (Germany) combining a statistical survey, in-depth…
Descriptors: Slavic Languages, Student Attitudes, Second Language Instruction, Barriers