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Michin Hong - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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culturally competent social work research methodological considerations for research with Language Minorities
Social Work, 2012Co-Authors: Banghwa Lee Casado, Nalini Junko Negi, Michin HongAbstract:Despite the growing number of Language Minorities, foreign-born individuals with limited English proficiency, this population has been largely left out of social work research, often due to methodological challenges involved in conducting research with this population. Whereas the professional standard calls for cultural competence, a discussion of how to implement strategies for culturally competent research with Language Minorities is regrettably limited in the social work literature. This article is, to the authors’ knowledge, one of the first within the field of social work to tie together unique methodological issues that may arise throughout the research conceptualization, development, and implementation process with this population. Strategies for how to overcome such issues are provided by adapting and expanding on a conceptual framework by Meleis. The incorporation of such research practices with Language Minorities has the potential to enhance trust and, thus, improve the recruitment and retention of this hard-to-reach population. More important, studies that aim to include such culturally responsive criteria may produce results that have improved validity and, thus, contribute to the advancement of knowledge regarding this population.
Yongjae Choe - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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testing verbal Language and non verbal abilities in Language Minorities a socio educational problem in historical perspective
Language Testing, 2000Co-Authors: John W Oller, Kunok Kim, Yongjae ChoeAbstract:There is a wide-spread socio-educational problem with Language testing at its heart: Speakers of minority Languages are over-represented in classes for the learning disabled, disordered and educable mentally retarded and under-represented in classes for the gifted. This imbalance is owed to mental measurement practices that involve Language tests both directly and indirectly. The source of the problem is a general failure to appreciate the role of Language proficiencies in psychological and educational testing. Also the relation between acquired (socially dependent) Language proficiencies and so-called non-verbal abilities may be closer than commonly supposed. Among the questions addressed are the following: To what extent is it possible to measure non-verbal abilities without invoking acquired Language/dialect proficiencies? Is it possible to get the instructions to non-verbal tasks across to test takers without recourse to one or more particular Languages or dialects? Is it possible to make linguistical...
Giovanni Destro Bisol - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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detecting genetic isolation in human populations a study of european Language Minorities
PLOS ONE, 2013Co-Authors: Marco Capocasa, Cinzia Battaggia, Paolo Anagnostou, Francesco Montinaro, Ilaria Boschi, Gianmarco Ferri, Milena Alu, Valentina Coia, Federica Crivellaro, Giovanni Destro BisolAbstract:The identification of isolation signatures is fundamental to better understand the genetic structure of human populations and to test the relations between cultural factors and genetic variation. However, with current approaches, it is not possible to distinguish between the consequences of long-term isolation and the effects of reduced sample size, selection and differential gene flow. To overcome these limitations, we have integrated the analysis of classical genetic diversity measures with a Bayesian method to estimate gene flow and have carried out simulations based on the coalescent. Combining these approaches, we first tested whether the relatively short history of cultural and geographical isolation of four “linguistic islands” of the Eastern Alps (Lessinia, Sauris, Sappada and Timau) had left detectable signatures in their genetic structure. We then compared our findings to previous studies of European population isolates. Finally, we explored the importance of demographic and cultural factors in shaping genetic diversity among the groups under study. A combination of small initial effective size and continued genetic isolation from surrounding populations seems to provide a coherent explanation for the diversity observed among Sauris, Sappada and Timau, which was found to be substantially greater than in other groups of European isolated populations. Simulations of micro-evolutionary scenarios indicate that ethnicity might have been important in increasing genetic diversity among these culturally related and spatially close populations.
Eric Forgues - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Official Language Minorities in Canada: an introduction
International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 2007Co-Authors: Rodrigue Landry, Eric ForguesAbstract:In a past issue of the International Journal of the Sociology of Language, Richard Bourhis (1994) edited a number of articles that dealt with ‘‘French-English Language issues in Canada.’’ The issue dealt with Language contacts from both a national and a regional basis. The present issue of IJSL focuses on the o‰cial Language Minorities of Canada, that is, English in Quebec (the only province where French is the sole o‰cial Language) and French outside Quebec, the latter being a minority Language in the other nine provinces and three federal territories. French does have o‰cial status with English in the small province of New Brunswick, where Francophones constitute one-third of the population. It also has o‰cial status with English and some aboriginal Languages in the three northern territories. However, Language issues in Canada’s confederation are diverse and o‰cial Language Minorities experience a wide variety of sociolinguistic contexts. Before we present the structure and content of this special IJSL issue, we give a brief overview of some historical background relevant to this topic of o‰cial Language Minorities in Canada. 1. Historical background When European explorers and merchants discovered North America, what is now Canada was a vast land without frontiers inhabited by a mosaic of aboriginal peoples who are now called the First Nations. Two colonial powers, the French and the British, explored and surveyed the land and established new colonies. At first, the aboriginal peoples saw the Europeans as mainly interested in trade and commerce and as nonpermanent settlers (Ray 1987). But the French introduced a first settlement in Port Royal (Acadie) in 1605 and founded Quebec in 1608. In the 1620s and 1630s, respectively, French families began settling in the Quebec region (which became Nouvelle France) and in Acadie (now Nova
Mary Goebel Noguchi - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Politics, the media, and Korean Language acquisition in Japan
International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 2005Co-Authors: Mary Goebel NoguchiAbstract:This paper explores the impact that media coverage of current events has on the identity and Language maintenance of Language Minorities by examining recent coverage of two major events related to the Republic of Korea and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea which were heavily covered by Japanese news media: the joint hosting of the 2002 soccer World Cup by Japan and South Korea during the early summer of 2002, and the admission by Kim Jong Il that North Korea had abducted a number of Japanese during the 1970s and 1980s. A small-scale survey of resident Koreans and interviews with the principals of three Korean schools in Kyoto as well as a teacher at one of these schools focused on the effects media reports of these events had on resident Koreans in Japan and the Korean Language schools they maintain. Although the overall response to the survey was rather subdued, when it is considered together with the interviews with the school principals, the results give a glimpse of the strong impact media coverage can have on heritage Language maintenance programs.
