Publications

Publication details [#43124]

Borland, Helen. 2005. Heritage Languages and Community Identity Building: The Case of a Language of Lesser Status. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 8 (2/3) : 109–123.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

education | immigrant | language maintenance | language status | minority language

Language as a subject

Maltese

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This article reports on ongoing initiatives to promote heritage language awareness and intergenerational heritage language transmission within a migrant Maltese community in Melbourne, Australia.