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Nydia Martínez; Gina Mikel Petrie; Catherine Nolan-Ferrell – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
This study counters the popular assumption that Spanish Heritage Language Learners (SHLLs) on study abroad (SA) in a place of cultural origin can easily adapt and find acceptance due to the linguistic and cultural resources they bring with them. Our study builds on previous work to illustrate a more nuanced and complex story of desires for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Study Abroad, Spanish, Native Language
Han, Yanmei – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2022
This study explores how a transient community of Chinese visiting scholars in the US negotiates the language norms and identity in the transnational spaces. Transient communities, being different from diasporic stable communities in terms of flexibility and fluidity of movements, are subject to continuous negotiation of social or language norms.…
Descriptors: Asians, College Faculty, Foreign Nationals, Professional Identity
Eisenchlas, Susana A.; Michael, Rowan B. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2019
Sociolinguistic research on language attitudes has revealed that non-standard accented speakers are usually perceived more negatively than members of the dominant speech community. Few studies, however, have examined whether a speaker's ethnicity, evidenced by nonlinguistic factors such as appearance, may play a role in listeners' perception of…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Ethnicity, Pronunciation, College Faculty
Comanaru, Ruxandra-Silvia; Noels, Kimberly A.; Dewaele, Jean-Marc – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2018
Studies of bicultural identity have claimed conflict--harmony and distance--overlap as relevant axes for describing bicultural identity, whereas other research emphasises variations across social situations. Based on this literature and focus group interviews, the bicultural identity of 300 young adults from immigrant families was examined, and a…
Descriptors: Biculturalism, Self Concept, Factor Structure, Immigrants
Yang, Miaoyan – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2018
This paper examines Tibetan ethnicity by studying the language ideologies among Tibetan students and their persistent roles in shaping ethnic boundaries at a Minzu University (MU). MU attracts the highest achieving ethnic minority students throughout China and explicitly aims to turn them into patriotic minority cadres. Hosting extremely…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Ethnicity, Minority Groups, Patriotism
Jee, Min Jung – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2016
This study investigated Korean heritage language (KHL) learners' foreign language classroom anxiety, reading anxiety and writing anxiety using the Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale (FLCAS) by Horwitz, Horwitz and Cope, the Foreign Language Reading Anxiety Scale (FLRAS) by Saito, Garza and Horwitz and the Writing Apprehension Test (WAT) by…
Descriptors: Korean, Heritage Education, Anxiety, Correlation
Yook, Cheongmin; Lindemann, Stephanie – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2013
This study investigates how the attitudes of 60 Korean university students towards five varieties of English are affected by the identification of the speaker's nationality and ethnicity. The study employed both a verbal guise technique and questions eliciting overt beliefs and preferences related to learning English. While the majority of the…
Descriptors: Role, Self Concept, Foreign Countries, College Students
Bangeni, Bongi; Kapp, Rochelle – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2007
This paper draws on post-structuralist theories on language and identity to explore the shifting language attitudes of 15 "black" students over the course of their undergraduate studies at a historically "white" South African university. All the students speak an indigenous language as their first language. Those students who…
Descriptors: Racial Segregation, Language Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Ethnicity
Kheimets, Nina G.; Epstein, Alek D. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2005
This paper presents sociological analysis of the linguistic and cultural identity of two of Israel's most influential and high-ranked universities during their formative years, that were also the "de facto" formative years of the Israeli state-in-the-making (1924-1948). We argue that the influence of external universal factors on a…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Jews, Official Languages, Foreign Countries