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Publication details [#58932]

Smith-Christmas, Cassandra and Timothy Currie Armstrong. 2014. Complementary reversing language shift strategies in education: the importance of adult heritage learners of threatened minority languages. Current Issues in Language Planning 15 (3) : 312–326.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

education | family role | language policy | language shift | minority language

Language as a subject

Gaelic, Scottish

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This paper discusses (particular challenges to) how heritage Scottish Gaelic minority language learners can play a key role in inverting language shift (RLS) in their families.To maximise Gaelic education as RLS means, adult heritage learners' education needs to considered as a complementary strategy to childhood education.