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Direct linkNic Fhlannchadha, Siobhán; Hickey, Tina M. – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2018
The Irish language is a minority language undergoing the attenuation and accelerated change commonly seen as threatened languages come under increasing pressure from the dominant language. The decline of the numbers of traditional speakers and growing numbers of L2 speakers of Irish has given rise to some contested spaces regarding authenticity,…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Native Speakers, Irish, Semi Structured Interviews
Grádaigh, Seán Ó. – Irish Educational Studies, 2015
This paper examines and discusses the profiles of applicants and entrants to the DGO (Dioplóma Gairmiúil san Oideachas) initial teacher education programme between 2000 and 2011. The DGO is the only initial teacher education programme in Ireland that is specifically designated to prepare student teachers for the second-level Irish-medium (SLIM)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Qualifications, Preservice Teacher Education, College Applicants
O'Rourke, Bernadette – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2011
The purpose of this article is to examine how struggles over language ownership are played out in a minority language setting, focusing on the case of Irish in the Republic of Ireland. The article examines the more or less serious struggles that emerge between so-called native, or L1, and nonnative, or L2, speakers of Irish in a language learning…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Ownership, Language Role, Ideology
Hickey, Tina M. – Language and Education, 2007
A central tenet of two-way immersion has been that the minority language children benefit from mother-tongue support in addition to instruction and interaction in the majority language (usually English) with their peers in high prestige programmes, while the English speakers gain valuable opportunities for peer interaction in their L2 with native…
Descriptors: Irish, Immersion Programs, Native Speakers, Second Language Learning
Ward, Monica – ReCALL, 2004
This paper considers the additional uses of CALL in the Endangered Language (EL) context. It briefly reviews ELs and reports on CALL for ELs in general. It then reviews the extra uses of CALL for ELs; these include changing negative attitudes towards the language, arousing interest in the language and contributing to language maintenance and…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Literacy Education, Negative Attitudes, Foreign Countries
