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AFFORDANCES FOR HOME LANGUAGE MAINTENANCE CREATED BY MULTIMODAL WEB 2.0 AND MOBILE TECHNOLOGIES
Liam Morgan, Maria Gabriella Peter University of Technology Australia This paper
examines the impact of Web 2.0 technologies on the maintenance of
home languages in Australia. It reports on findings from two major
studies that investigated the language practices and attitudes of
school students across mainstream schools, community schools and the
government Saturday Schools of Community Languages in Sydney and
Wollongong, Australia. The findings reveal complex patterns of
language use in families and communities and firmly establishes that
Internet-based applications and travel are factors having major
impacts on the language practices of families who speak a language
additional to English in the home. |
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