Testing the Irish Medium Summer Camp in a Scottish Gaelic Context | AHRC DTP
Subject: Linguistics
HEI: University of the Highlands and Islands
School: Sabhal Mòr Ostaig
Supervisors: Dr Marsaili NicLeòid, Dr Timothy Currie Armstrong, Michelle MacLeod (University of Aberdeen)
Discipline+Catalyst: Linguistics, Modern Languages
Knowledge Exchange Hub: Citizenship, Culture & Ethics
Keywords: Language revitalisation, language domains, out-of-school education, adolescent development, language acquisition, Scottish Gaelic
About Ross’s Research:
A sociolinguistic study of teenage language practices in minority language revitalisation contexts and the adaptation of language programmes for new contexts. This project aims firstly to quantify aspects of informal but immersive language provision that support Irish speaking teenagers to engage with the language in a way that complements their personal development as socially confident Irish speaking adults, and secondly, to test how such provision may be implemented to complement Scottish Gaelic educational policy in the context of significant linguistic and demographic change in order to support language revitalisation efforts there.
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Email: Ross Christie
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