Ljouwert/Leeuwarden (NL) ICML XVII 22-24 May 2019 17th International Conference on Minority Languages Book of Abstracts Mercator European Research Centre/ Fryske Akademy Visiting: Doelestrjitte 8, 8911 DX Leeuwarden (NL) Postal: Postbus 54, 8900 AB Leeuwarden (NL) www.mercator-research.eu www.fryske-akademy.nl 17th International Conference on Minority Languages (ICML XVII) www.icml.eu Table of Contents Keynote speeches ...................................................................................................................... 7 #k1: Dr. Delyth Prys - Language revitalization through language technologies: challenges and opportunities ....................................................................................................................................... 8 #k2: Dr. Bernat Joan í Marí - On a general European language policy ............................................ 9 #k3: Dr. Mandana Seyfeddinipur - Blessing and curse: Utilising digital technology for documentation, preservation and mobilisation of languages .......................................................... 10 #k4: Prof. Dr. Piet Van Avermaet - Do integration policies driven by a monolingual ideology reproduce social inequality? ............................................................................................................. 11 Colloquia ......................................................................................................................................... 12 #001: Virtual Communities: a ‘breathing space’ for minority languages .......................................... 13 #002: Globalisation and disruption: Society, media and cultural diversity ....................................... 15 #003: Language data collection methodology .................................................................................. 18 #004: Cypriot Arabic in an era of globalization: revitalization efforts for a severely endangered language ............................................................................................................................................ 21 #005: Multilingual Education 2.0 – from Frisian only to Plurilingual Education ............................... 23 22 #006: Linguistic policies and revitalization of minority languages beyond Europe .......................... 26 #007: Material culture of multilingualism in minority settings ......................................................... 28 #008: Promoting minority languages on social media ...................................................................... 30 #009: Challenges of developing language resources for (small) minority languages ....................... 32 #010: The role of the linguist in the language revitalization process ............................................... 34 Papers ............................................................................................................................................... 36 #101: Language and identity of Caucasian Germans in globalized society ....................................... 37 #102: Minority languages and their perception in Germany ............................................................ 38 #103: The mirror effect: Language ideologies of the Amazigh and Quechua communities in Catalonia ............................................................................................................................................... 39 #104: An investigation of language attitudes in 21st century Catalonia .......................................... 40 #105: Catalan language maintenance in the age of globalization: a case of Japanese-heritage multilingual families in Barcelona ..................................................................................................... 41 #106: On the importance of mental conceptualisations for the standardisation of minority languages: the case of Rumantsch Grischun ..................................................................................... 42 #107: Evaluating the effectiveness of the ‘ARFer’ programme in shifting the Linguistic Habit Context in a bilingual workplace ..................................................................................................................... 43 #108: Employment across the border vs. pursuit of the world: global English beats German in German-speaking Lorraine (France) .................................................................................................. 44 #109: From progressive language maintenance to potential language revitalization: Prohibition and progress in Swedish language policies on national minority languages ........................................... 45 #110: Boosting the communication competence in minority and regional languages: the Eduka2 project in Italy and Slovenia .............................................................................................................. 46 #111: Ceredigion County council’s work Welsh pilot scheme: Welsh language tuition in a globalized world ............................................................................................................................................... 47 #112: Teacher – student(s) interaction and language use in the trilingual classroom ..................... 48 #113: Addressing teacher confidence as a barrier to bilingual classroom transmission practices in Wales ............................................................................................................................................... 49 #114: More languages in secondary schools! ................................................................................... 50 #115: Educational policy in Ireland: a voice for native Irish speakers in Irish-speaking communities . ............................................................................................................................................... 51 #117: Beliefs about the benefits of a multilingual approach among language teachers .................. 52 #118: The development of Basque oral expository skills by means of a trilingual didactic sequence . ............................................................................................................................................... 53 #119: Which word-order do we prefer for Basque written prose developing? ............................... 54 #121: L’amazighe au Maroc, d’une langue minorée à une langue officielle: la valeur ajoutée de ‘l école ............................................................................................................................................... 55 #122: From local to global: case study of Basque language in media and education ...................... 57 33 #123: When a majority unwritten language appears a minority language: the case of Basque in Navarre in the 16th century .............................................................................................................. 58 #124: The role of the Armenian General Benevolent Union (AGBU) in supporting literacy in the minority language among the Bulgaria diaspora .............................................................................. 59 #125: Contextualising Minority Language Rights Under International Human Rights Law .............. 60 #126: The minority language Basque in a globalized society: implications for professional and educational settings .......................................................................................................................... 61 #128: Positioning Scots and Gaelic in ‘superdiverse’ Scottish education: implications for minority languages in policy and practice ....................................................................................................... 62 #130: Challenges facing minority languages in South Africa as illustrated by language policy drafting and amendments .............................................................................................................................. 63 #131: Language use diaries as a research method in the study of language choice and the semiotic repertoire .......................................................................................................................................... 64 #132: An insurmountable challenge or a favorable opportunity? An analysis of identity and the role of new speakers in the cultivation of Irish poetry in the Dingle (Corca Dhuibhne) and Iveragh Peninsula (Uíbh Ráthach) .................................................................................................................. 65 #133: Sociolinguistic profile of the heterogenous Kurdish community in Berlin: results of a survey .. ............................................................................................................................................... 66 #134: Québec vous souhaite la bienvenue: an exploration of language and belonging among immigrants in Canada's belle province ............................................................................................. 67 #135: Multilingual practices among university students and their attitudes towards multilingualism: Insights from Europe and beyond ..................................................................................................... 68 #201: New speakers of Belarusian and Ukrainian: social identities, language policies and language ideologies .......................................................................................................................................... 69 #202: ‘Broken Irish