In this chapter, we offer a critical examination of a growing field of educational inquiry and
social practice: the reclamation of Indigenous mother tongues. We use the term reclamation …

This book examines the history of language policy by and for Native Americans, and
contemporary language revitalization initiatives. The book explores innovative language …

Ladino on the Internet constitutes the first critical and systematic account written in English
on the online revitalisation of Ladino. This book conclusively demonstrates that nowadays …

Kristang is the critically endangered heritage language of the Portuguese-Eurasian
community in Singapore and the wider Malayan region, and is spoken by an estimated less …

This chapter examines Indigenous language practices using digital media and technology to
promote Indigenous language revitalization. It follows the growing online presence of Latin …

This book deals with the tension between a strategy of language maintenance (protecting
and reinforcing the language where it is still spoken by community members) and a strategy …

The article studies minority language policy in the situation of an internal division within a
speech community. It is based on the example of the Upper Sorbs–a Slavic minority in …

Although there have been favorable legislative changes regarding the status of Latin
America's Indigenous (minoritized) languages and the linguistic human rights (LHRs) of …

The distinction between basic interpersonal communicative skills (BICS) and cognitive
academic language profi ciency (CALP) was introduced by Cummins (1979) in order to draw …

To revitalize a language is to create new contexts for its acquisition and use among a
heritage community associated with that language. The goal is to engender new vitality in a …