The 19th-century European notion of the one people-one language nation as the ideal state has been a very pervasive influence in spite of the fact that most cou

The 19th-century European notion of the one people-one language nation as the ideal state has been a very pervasive influence in spite of the fact that most cou

​This book presents research on the situation minority language schoolchildren face when they need to learn languages of international communication, in parti

The papers in this volume describe a wide variety of language contact settings in which one or more languages are in a process of shift. In the first part of th

The difference between languages that children learn in the home (their mother tongues) and the languages valued by society and established as the medium of ins