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Direct linkPerera, Nirukshi – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2015
In the study of language maintenance and shift for migrant groups in Australia, scholars have tended to focus on how personal factors or aspects of life in the host society shape language maintenance patterns. In this study, I explore how factors originating in the homeland affect language maintenance for Sri Lankan migrants in Australia. The aim…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Maintenance, Immigrants, Dravidian Languages
Download full textLiyanage, Indika; Birch, Gary; Grimbeek, Peter – Online Submission, 2004
Previous studies (Liyanage, 2003a, 2003b, 2004) by one of the authors indicated that ethnicity and religion jointly predict the metacognitive, cognitive and social affective strategies of ESL learners in Sri Lanka. The current study further examines which of these two variables (ethnicity or religion) is more important in determining the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indo European Languages, Religion, Muslims
