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Friedman, Debra A. – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2023
This paper analyses adolescent Ukrainian-Russian bilinguals' stances towards polylanguaging as evidenced in their talk about and use of "suržyk," a stigmatised polylingual practice that combines features from Ukrainian and Russian. Drawing from group interviews with 39 Ukrainian young people (aged 14-15), it uses Bakhtin's ("The…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Language Attitudes, Russian, Ukrainian
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Fichman, Sveta; Walters, Joel; Melamed, Ravit; Altman, Carmit – First Language, 2022
This research analyzed adequacy of referential expressions in the narratives of bilingual and monolingual children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) and typical language development (TLD), aiming to shed light on the relative contribution of morpho-syntactic, discourse-pragmatic, and semantic constraints. Narratives were collected from 51…
Descriptors: Russian, Semitic Languages, Preschool Children, Story Telling
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Sliashynskaya, Hanna – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2019
This article analyses how two official languages of Belarus, Russian and Belarusian, are represented on the homepages of two national news websites through the analysis of media discourse within headlines and leads of news stories, and focusing on aspects of multimodality of websites. In view of the equal legal status of these languages, this…
Descriptors: Official Languages, Multilingualism, Web Sites, News Reporting
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Meyer Pitton, Liliane – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2013
This article contributes to the study of language maintenance as an everyday activity in binational-bilingual families. By embedding the question of language maintenance into a language socialization framework and adopting a conversation-analytic approach to language alternation, three excerpts of mealtime interactions in Russian-French speaking…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Bilingualism, Socialization, Educational Objectives
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Moin, Victor; Breitkopf, Anna; Schwartz, Mila – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2011
The article focuses on bilingual kindergartens in Germany and Israel offering education in both host (German or Hebrew) and immigrant (Russian) languages. The main questions are how teachers of bilingual kindergartens understand and explain the organizational and pedagogical principles of the kindergartens and how they negotiate home and host…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Educational Policy, Educational Principles
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Schwartz, Mila; Moin, Victor; Leikin, Mark – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2011
The study focused on immigrant parents' discourses about strategies for their children's preschool bilingual development and education. The article investigated how immigrant parents described and explained these strategies. The study was based on semi-structured interviews with 4 families. The 8 parents were Russian-speaking immigrants to Israel…
Descriptors: Interviews, Monolingualism, Foreign Countries, Immigrants