Accents can form distinctive variations in the pronunciation of any language. They can be either native or foreign, and can deliver information about a person’s geographical origin, about different ethnicities …
You have just heard a lot of information about current trends in language policies aiming at protecting and promoting multilingualism. You have listened to a language policy maker in a …
The text below is based on the chapter Language contact 1: maintenance, shift and death, written by Rajend Mesthrie and William L. Leap. It will give you an overview of …
In the previous step you watched the video in which Henk and José are talking about their multilingual practices. José is a new speaker of Frisian; she learnt it as …
In this video Henk Wolf and José Bruining, a Dutch-Frisian family, talk about their language use and about being a new speaker of a minority language. If you want to …
Third language acquisition is common in bilingual and multilingual contexts where two or more languages are used. Learning more than two languages is also found among the immigrant population and …
The base of this step is the article The Cognitive Benefits of Being Bilingual’ by Victoria Marian and Anthony Shook (2012). Over the past few decades, technological advances have allowed …
Some cognitive processes are different between monolingual and multilingual speakers. In this and the following step, we will introduce you to and let you try a Stroop task yourself. The …
In this video Prof. Dr. David Little reports on the multilingual approach of a school in Dublin which uses English and Irish for instruction, along with all languages spoken by …
You are invited to read the summary of an article by Nelson Flores and Hugo Baetens (2015) about programs and structures in bilingual and multilingual education. Subtractive bilingual education Subtractive …
You have looked for information on how companies deal with diversity and multilingualism and you have heard the experience of a multilingual family on this. It is now time to …