Parent and child perspectives on Greek language education in Australia
Abstract
The Greek community in Australia has been noted for its success in resisting language loss. Most school-age children in the Greek Australian community are now members of the third generation and increasingly vulnerable to language loss. Maintenance of Greek among this group depends on the commitment of parents and children and on the availability of effective language instruction. A survey conducted in a Greek Orthodox school in Melbourne finds that while the parent and child cohorts share an overt commitment to the language, differences emerge in their views of the way it is taught. In particular the student cohort appear to experience some conflict between language loyalty and their daily experience of learning the language.
© Walter de Gruyter
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- Preface
- Introduction
- Australia's community languages
- Intergenerational language transmission in an established Australian migrant community: what makes the difference?
- Parent and child perspectives on Greek language education in Australia
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- Linguistic practices and language attitudes of second-generation Italo-Australians
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Articles in the same Issue
- Preface
- Introduction
- Australia's community languages
- Intergenerational language transmission in an established Australian migrant community: what makes the difference?
- Parent and child perspectives on Greek language education in Australia
- A language community from a historical perspective: homogeneity and variation
- Linguistic practices and language attitudes of second-generation Italo-Australians
- “It's something that's just faded away”: how a Melbourne family of Swiss-German background makes sense of language shift
- Language maintenance and shift in the Danish community in Melbourne
- Language maintenance in friendships: second-generation German, Greek, and Vietnamese migrants
- Language and Orthodox churches in Australia
- The Southern Saami Language in Svahken Sijte
