Maintenance and Loss of Minority Languages
Edited by Willem Fase, Koen Jaspaert and Sjaak Kroon
[Studies in Bilingualism, 1] 1992. xii, 403 pp.
Sjaak Kroon
List of John Benjamins publications for which Sjaak Kroon plays a role.
Title
Subjects Multilingualism | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Articles
2021 Chineseness as a moving target: Language and identity transformations in the Chinese diaspora in Eindhoven, The Netherlands Language and Communication of Asian Diaspora Communities in Europe, Wang, Zi and Florian Coulmas (eds.), pp. 137–158 | Article
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
2017 Academic language in elementary school mathematics: Academicness of teacher input during whole class instruction Dutch 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
2017 The chronotopes of authenticity: Designing the Tujia heritage in China Meaning 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
2013 Chinese and globalization Linguistic 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
2009 Opvattingen Over Nederlands En Andere Talen Als Instructietaal Op Aruba En In Suriname Toegepaste Taalwetenschap in Artikelen 82, pp. 57–68 | Article
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
2006 Negen Talen En Drie Schriften: Schriftverwerving en schriftgebruik in Eritrea Toegepaste 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
2003 Eigen Taal: Een Gebruiksanalyse in Taaibeleidsdocumenten Over Onderwijs aan Allochtone Leerlingen Vanaf 1970 Thema's en trends in de sociolinguistiek 4, pp. 147–159 | Article
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
1992 Maintenace and Loss of Minority Languages: Introductory Remarks Maintenance and Loss of Minority Languages, Fase, Willem, Koen Jaspaert and Sjaak Kroon (eds.), pp. 3 ff. | Article
1992 From the Typewriter of A.L.: A Case Study in Language Loss Maintenance and Loss of Minority Languages, Fase, Willem, Koen Jaspaert and Sjaak Kroon (eds.), pp. 137 ff. | Article
1989 Social Determinants of Language Loss Dimensions of Language Attrition, Bot, Kees de, Michael Clyne and T.J.M. van Els (eds.), pp. 75–98 | Article
1980 Sociolinguïstiek in de Onderwijspraktijk een Discussiebijdrage met een Praktische Suggestie Aspekten van de sociolinguistiek in Nederland: 22 maart 1980 te Amsterdam, pp. 85–109 | 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