The Minority Language as a Second Language

This innovative collection is the first of its kind to showcase global perspectives on learning minority languages as second languages, offering unique insights into their acquisition and specific characteristics and raising greater awareness around other languages and contexts where SLA occurs. The volume examines how minority languages are acquired as second languages across a range of geographic settings where these languages are unique minorities; that is, they are spoken in one or more states where they have a minority status. International case studies explore particular features of these languages as well as the challenges of teaching and learning them, including standardization, legal recognition at all educational levels, the dissemination of printed and digital materials and more or less limited language use in the local community. Highlighted languages include Ashaninka, Basque, Frisian, Hawaiian, Irish, Isthmus Zapotec, Quechua Chanka, Tonga and Welsh. Each chapter adopts a consistent structure, with a brief introduction to the sociolinguistic landscape, followed by sections on language use in education, research studies, reflections and discussions related to the learning of minority languages as second languages and the implication of these processes for the revitalization of minority languages. Breaking new ground in second language acquisition research, this book is an indispensable resource for advanced students and researchers in SLA, multilingual education, bilingualism and sociolinguistics.

Jasone Cenoz is a member of the Advisory Board for the Organization of Ibero-American States (Organización de Estados Iberoamericanos) and former Professor of Education at the University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU. She has been AILA Publications Coordinator and President of the International Association of Multilingualism. Durk Gorter is former Ikerbasque Research Professor at the University of the Basque Country, Spain. Among his recent publications are Pedagogical Translanguaging (2021) and A Panorama of Linguistic Landscape Studies (2023), both co-authored with Jasone Cenoz. He has been the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Language, Culture and Curriculum.

Editors and Contributors Chapter 1. Second language acquisition and minority languages Jasone Cenoz and Durk Gorter Chapter 2. Power to the minorities: Ndebele L1-speaking teachers in Tonga-speaking communities in Zimbabwe Busani Maseko and Dion Nkomo Chapter 3. The acquisition and use of Irish as a minority language Pádraig Ó Duibhir and John Harris Chapter 4. Legitimising the 'bilingual': Identity issues among L2 Welsh-speaking teenagers in English-medium schools in Wales Nia Mererid Parry and Enlli Môn Thomas Chapter 5. Learning of indigenous languages in university settings: A Decolonizing practice Vilma Huerta Cordova, Mario E. López-Gopar, Kiara Ríos Ríos, Ariadna Teresa Lartigue Mendoza and Ana Edith López Cruz, Chapter 6. Learning indigenous languages as a second language in Bilingual Intercultural Education programs in Peru Karina Sullón and Elizabet Arocena Chapter 7. Language proficiency and language use in Basque as a first or second language Iñaki Martinez de Luna Pérez de Arriba, Maialen Iñarra Arregi and Pablo Suberbiola Unanue Chapter 8. Potential new speakers of Frisian in educational settings - implicit and explicit attitudes in learning a minority language Sannah Debreczeni, Joana Duarte and Mirjam Günther-van der Meij Chapter 9. Building on the strength of identity in revitalizing Hawaiian on a foundation of second language learners William H. Wilson and Kauanoe Kamana Index