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Defiance within the Decline? Revisiting New Welsh Speakers' Language Journeys
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Rhian Hodges – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
The Welsh Government's Welsh language strategy, Cymraeg: A million Welsh speakers [Welsh Government. 2017a. "Cymraeg 2050: A Million Welsh Speakers." Cardiff: Welsh Government], aims to increase the numbers of Welsh speakers to one million by 2050. The creation of new Welsh speakers and immersion education form an integral part of the…
Descriptors: Welsh, Language Usage, Sociolinguistics, Secondary School Students
Asymmetries in Phonological Development: The Case of Word-Final Cluster Acquisition in Welsh-English Bilingual Children
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Mayr, Robert; Howells, Gwennan; Lewis, Rhonwen – Journal of Child Language, 2015
This study provides the first systematic account of word-final cluster acquisition in bilingual children. To this end, forty Welsh-English bilingual children differing in language dominance and age (2;6 to 5;0) participated in a picture-naming task in English and Welsh. The results revealed significant age and dominance effects on cluster…
Descriptors: Welsh, English, Bilingualism, Sociolinguistics
Bilingualism and British Education: The Dimensions of Diversity.
Centre for Information on Language Teaching, London (England). – 1976
This compilation of articles deals with practical questions of bilingualism that appear to be important to the development of education in Britain. The conference for which the papers were originally prepared concentrated on three general aspects: the existence of many thousands of bilingual children in Britain whose native languages are largely…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Bilingualism