Bilingualism in the bush: reconceptualising 'speech community' in immigrant family language maintenance in regional Australia

丛林中的双语：澳大利亚乡村地区移民家庭语言维护中“言语社区”的重新概念

• 批准号: DP140100443
• 负责人: A/Prof Elizabeth Ellis
• 金额: $ 19.49万
• 依托单位: The University of New England
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2014-01-01 至 2019-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP140100443
• 关键词: Bilingualism; bush; reconceptualising; speech; community

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.

该项目将调查澳大利亚地区中心的移民家庭在大都市地区缺乏足够数量的说话者、网络和资源的情况下如何保持孩子的母语。它将确定如何通过社区和教育服务最好地支持这些家庭，以确保儿童成长为双语者，从而提高认知、社交和学术技能。该项目将研究家庭实践以及家庭和幼儿服务之间的联系。成果将包括更好地了解偏远地区成功的家庭语言规划实践，以及通过通信技术重新概念化“言语社区”。