Concept information
Preferred term
indigenous languages as second languages
Definition(s)
- Since the conception of American Indian education, school language policies have focused on assimilative and subtractive education: stressing the learning of English at the expense of ancestral languages. For indigenous families and communities, this has meant the suppression and loss of the mother tongue and a situation in which speaking an indigenous mother tongue in early childhood has become a rarity. [Source: Encyclopedia of Bilingual Education; Indigenous Languages as Second Languages]
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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-Q4BX3ZCF-2
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