Publications

Publication details [#65230]

Devitt, Ann, Joe Condon, Gene Dalton, Jane O'Connell and Melanie Ní Dhuinn. 2018. An maith leat an Ghaeilge? An analysis of variation in primary pupil attitudes to Irish in the growing up in Ireland study. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 21 (1) : 105–117.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

education | language attitude | language policy | language use | primary school

Language as a subject

Irish

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This study examines primary schoolchildren's stances to Gaeilge, the Irish language, in the context of national policy in the Irish Republic. It explores the factors that may be linked to a strong overplus in disconnection with Irish, using the Growing Up in Ireland (GUI) survey.