Sjaak Kroon

List of John Benjamins publications for which Sjaak Kroon plays a role.

Title

Maintenance and Loss of Minority Languages

Edited by Willem Fase, Koen Jaspaert and Sjaak Kroon

[Studies in Bilingualism, 1] 1992. xii, 403 pp.
Subjects Multilingualism | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
The Chinese are one of the earliest established immigrant communities in the Netherlands and they are part of the new ‘superdiversity’ of metropolitan societies around the world, where the relative clarity of previous migration patterns is overlaid by vastly more complex, multilayered and less… read more
Dokter, Nanke, Rian Aarts, Jeanne Kurvers, Anje Ros and Sjaak Kroon 2017 Academic language in elementary school mathematics: Academicness of teacher input during whole class instructionDutch Journal of Applied Linguistics 6:2, pp. 213–230 | Article
Students who are proficient academic language (AL) users, achieve better in school. To develop students’ AL register teachers’ AL input is necessary. The goal of this study was to investigate the extent of AL features in the language input first and second grade teachers give their students in… read more
Wang, Xuan and Sjaak Kroon 2017 The chronotopes of authenticity: Designing the Tujia heritage in ChinaMeaning Making in the Periphery, Moita-Lopes, Luiz Paulo and Mike Baynham (eds.), pp. 72–95 | Article
This paper examines the ways in which the ethnic minority group the Tujia in Enshi, China, engages with heritage tourism, as a complex project of designing authenticity. Authenticity is taken as part of the chronotopic phenomena of identity making: the complex interplay of multiple, nonrandom… read more
Kroon, Sjaak, Jan Blommaert † and Dong Jie 2013 Chinese and globalizationLinguistic Superdiversity in Urban Areas: Research approaches, Duarte, Joana and Ingrid Gogolin (eds.), pp. 275–296 | Article
Globalization poses challenges to sociolinguistics. The main challenge is to come to terms with the phenomenology of sociolinguistic globalization. This phenomenology touches four domains: proper globalization effects on language, the effect of globalization on migration patterns and immigrant… read more
The Republic of Suriname in South America and the Carribean island of Aruba are both former Dutch colonies. After its independence in 1975 Suriname opted for maintaining Dutch as an official language and a language of education and also in Aruba, which is nowadays an autonomous part of the Kingdom… read more
Asfaha, Yonas Mesfun, Jeanne Kurvers en Sjaak Kroon 2006 Negen Talen En Drie Schriften: Schriftverwerving en schriftgebruik in EritreaToegepaste Taalwetenschap in Artikelen 75, pp. 89–102 | Article
In view of its sociolinguistic situation and its mother tongue language policy Eritrea qualifies as an excellent site for comparatively investigating the acquisition and use of literacy in nine different languages (Tigrinya, Tigre, Afar, Saho, Bidhaawyeet, Kunama, Nara, Bilen and Rashaida) using… read more
The Dutch discussion on immigrant minority language teaching, which has been going on for three decades now, shows a remarkable lack of conceptual clarity. This not only includes the content of the subject, but also its aims and its operationalisation in classroom practice. In creating this… read more
Fase, Willem, Koen Jaspaert and Sjaak Kroon 1992 Maintenace and Loss of Minority Languages: Introductory RemarksMaintenance and Loss of Minority Languages, Fase, Willem, Koen Jaspaert and Sjaak Kroon (eds.), pp. 3–14 | Article
Jaspaert, Koen and Sjaak Kroon 1992 From the Typewriter of A.L.: A Case Study in Language LossMaintenance and Loss of Minority Languages, Fase, Willem, Koen Jaspaert and Sjaak Kroon (eds.), pp. 137–148 | Article
Jaspaert, Koen and Sjaak Kroon 1989 Social Determinants of Language LossDimensions of Language Attrition, Bot, Kees de, Michael Clyne and T.J.M. van Els (eds.), pp. 75–98 | Article
This paper suggests that the orientation of sociolinguistics is becoming less practical. The initially practical orientation of sociolinguistics, which was almost programmatic in nature, gave rise, notably among teachers, to certain expectations concerning the educational relevance and practical… read more