This is a linguistic autobiography whose objective is to explore some of the linguistic, socio-cultural and personality factors that have contributed to the fact that the author has successfully acquired English as a foreign ...

This is a linguistic autobiography whose objective is to explore some of the linguistic, socio-cultural and personality factors that have contributed to the fact that the author has successfully acquired English as a foreign ...

The material collected in these interviews was used in the following publication by Jo-Anne S. Ferreira: The Portuguese of Trinidad and Tobago: Portrait of an Ethnic Minority, (St. Augustine, Trinidad: Institute of Social ...

Previous studies on the attitudes towards heritage language maintenance reveal about the importance that families give to heritage language in order to retain their home language legacy (Oriyama, 2010). All of this while ...

This chapter introduces the challenge that brought together the contributors to this collection of essays, describing the trajectory that heritage studies has had in the face of established discourses about Islam and ...

Schools are sites where youth's identities as uninterested in their Indigenous languages and cultures are constructed in everyday interactions. This article addresses the ways in which constructs of personhood and language ...

Of the 1,000 plus languages of the Americas, 70 are in use across the 29 territories of the Caribbean, including both the archipelago and continental rimlands (Allsopp 1996). Linguistic situations of the Caribbean are ...