Heritage Language Education in Greece and Cyprus

Buch | Hardcover

239 Seiten

2023 | New edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-5275-3575-6 (ISBN)

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Amid the growing trend of preserving ethnic languages within diverse ethnolinguistic communities in Greece and Cyprus, our understanding of heritage language education in these countries remains limited. The chapters in this collection undertake a thoughtful exploration of language education in the world’s two majority-Greek-speaking contexts. The volume brings together empirical studies that exhibit the array of heritage language education options available in Greece and Cyprus today, including community/complementary schools operating on weekends or after regular school hours, providing language and culture classes in a range of languages (e.g., Albanian, Czech, Armenian, Russian), day schools (such as Italian and Hebrew schools), and 'family language schools' developed within the UNICEF framework. Collectively, these chapters establish a novel evidence base describing the diversity of the heritage language education landscape, which could act as a catalyst for further research and potentially drive change in both policy and practice. Importantly, the volume renders heritage language education initiatives in Greece and Cyprus visible – mainly to scholars, but potentially also to practitioners, policymakers, and other stakeholders in this evolving social, educational, and linguistic domain.

Nikos Gogonas studied at the Universities of Athens, Greece (BA), Reading, UK (MA), and Sussex, UK (DPhil). He is Assistant Professor of Intercultural Communication and Globality at the Department of Language and Intercultural Studies, University of Thessaly, Greece. He has also taught at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, the Hellenic Open University, Greece, and the University of Luxembourg, where he conducted his postdoctoral research. He has published extensively on language ideologies, language maintenance and shift, ethnolinguistic vitality, and family language policies in contexts of migration.

Erscheinungsdatum	03.11.2023
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-5275-3575-4 / 1527535754
ISBN-13	978-1-5275-3575-6 / 9781527535756
Zustand	Neuware