Choice of Scottish Gaelic-medium and Welsh-medium education at the primary and secondary school stages: parent and pupil perspectives
| Autor: | Fiona O'Hanlon |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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Linguistics and Language
Indo-European languages Primary education Welsh-medium education Context (language use) School choice Language and Linguistics language.human_language Education Welsh immersion education Content analysis Scottish Gaelic Pedagogy Gaelic-medium education language planning language Cross-cultural school choice Sociology |
| Zdroj: | O'Hanlon, F 2015, ' Choice of Scottish Gaelic-medium and Welsh-medium education at the primary and secondary school stages : Parent and pupil perspectives ', International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 242-259 . https://doi.org/10.1080/13670050.2014.923374 |
| ISSN: | 1747-7522 1367-0050 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/13670050.2014.923374 |
| Popis: | Results are presented of a comparative study of the reasons for parental choice of Scottish Gaelic-medium and Welsh-medium primary education in the year 2000, and of the reasons for pupils’ decisions to continue with Gaelic or Welsh-medium education at secondary school in 2007. Parents in both contexts cited the quality of Celtic-medium education to similar extents in the choice of Welsh or Gaelic-medium education, but parents in the Welsh context more frequently cited employment rationales, and parents in the Scottish context more frequently cited heritage and the benefits of bilingualism. The Welsh-medium and Gaelic-medium pupils cited a preference for learning in Welsh or Gaelic, a wish to continue to be educated with friends, heritage, quality of Celtic-medium education and employment rationales to similar extents in the choice of Celtic-medium secondary education. However, Welsh-medium pupils more frequently cited the Welsh-medium education experiences of older family members, and Gaelic-medium pupils more frequently cited valuing bilingualism as a reason for such a choice. The results are discussed in relation to previous research on choice of Gaelic and Welsh-medium education, and in relation to contextual factors, such as linguistic demographics, and the level of institutionalization of Gaelic and Welsh within each national context. |
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