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Language Maintenance and Language Shift as Strategies of Social Reproduction.

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O Riagain, Padraig – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1994

Discusses strategies of social mobility involving education, occupational or residential change, and migration as well as the implications for language behavior of these strategies. The article assesses current theories of language maintenance and shift, drawing on network concepts and referring to change in an Irish-speaking community in…

Descriptors: Bilingualism, Census Figures, Change Strategies, Cultural Context

All-Irish Primary Schools in the Dublin Area. Report of a Sociological and Spatial Study of All-Irish-Medium Schools in the Greater Dublin Area, with Special Reference to Their Impact on Home and Social Network Use of Irish.

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O Riagain, Padraig; O Gliasain, Micheal – 1979

A study investigated the extent to which all-Irish primary schools in the Dublin (Ireland) area: (1) provide opportunities for parents not using Irish at home to send children to an all-Irish school; (2) provide impetus for an increase in Irish use in homes of attending children; (3) increase interaction among Irish-speaking families; (4) are…

Descriptors: Educational Attitudes, Educational Objectives, Elementary Education, Family Environment