Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP140100443

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP140100443

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Bilingualism in the bush: reconceptualising 'speech community' in immigrant family language maintenance in regional Australia. This project will investigate how immigrant families in regional Australian centres maintain their children's home language(s) in the absence of the critical mass of speakers, networks and resources found in metropolitan areas. It will establish how such families can best be supported through community and educational services to ensure that children grow up bilingual, with the attendant benefits of improved cognitive, social and academic skills. The project will examine home practices and the interface between home and early childhood services. Outcomes will include a better understanding of successful family language planning practices in isolated regions and a reconceptualisation of 'speech community' through communications technologies.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2014

End Date: 31-03-2019

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $278,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Linguistics | Applied Linguistics and Educational Linguistics | Language in Culture and Society (Sociolinguistics)

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Languages and Literacy | Communication Across Languages and Culture |

Other Keywords

Applied Linguistics and Educational Linguistics | Communication Across Languages and Culture | Language in Culture and Society (Sociolinguistics) | Languages and Literacy | Linguistics

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