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Heritage Language Use in the Workplace: 1.5-Generation Korean Immigrants in New Zealand
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Park, Mi Yung – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2021
Drawing on Bourdieu's concept of linguistic capital and Darvin and Norton's notion of investment, this study explores heritage language (HL) use among 1.5-generation Korean immigrants in the New Zealand workplace. The data were collected through interviews with heritage speakers of Korean working in diverse fields in Auckland. The majority of the…
Descriptors: Korean, Native Language, Language Usage, Work Environment
The Construction of Deaf Children as Marginal Bilinguals in the Mainstream
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Mckee, Rachel Locker – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2008
The political discourse of Deaf ethnolinguistic identity has empowered Deaf people in recent decades to deconstruct a pathological model of deafness and the deficit pedagogy that centres on acquisition of speech and social assimilation. The engagement of Deaf community members in consultation and employment in the New Zealand (NZ) education system…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Sign Language, Bilingual Education, Deafness
An Investigation into the Practices of a Class of Field-Based Student Educators Working in Linguistically Diverse Early Childhood Centres
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Schofield, Anne – Australian Journal of Early Childhood, 2007
Twenty early childhood student educators were surveyed on their teaching practices when working with children learning English as a second language in early childhood centres in New Zealand. The bilingual and trilingual participants stated that their practices were based on their own language learning experiences, theories learned in class and…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Young Children, Monolingualism, Foreign Countries