This innovative collection is the first of its kind to showcase global perspectives on learning minority languages as second languages, offering unique insights into their acquisition and specific characteristics and raising greater awareness around other languages and contexts where SLA occurs.

Jasone Cenoz is a member of the Advisory Board for the Organization of Ibero-American States (Organización de Estados Iberoamericanos) and former Professor of Education at the University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU. She has been AILA Publications Coordinator and President of the International Association of Multilingualism.

Durk Gorter is former Ikerbasque Research Professor at the University of the Basque Country, Spain. Among his recent publications are Pedagogical Translanguaging (2021) and A Panorama of Linguistic Landscape Studies (2023), both co-authored with Jasone Cenoz. He has been the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Language, Culture and Curriculum.

Editors and Contributors

Chapter 1. Second language acquisition and minority languages

Jasone Cenoz and Durk Gorter

Chapter 2. Power to the minorities: Ndebele L1-speaking teachers in Tonga-speaking communities in Zimbabwe

Busani Maseko and Dion Nkomo

Chapter 3. The acquisition and use of Irish as a minority language

Pádraig Ó Duibhir and John Harris

Chapter 4. Legitimising the 'bilingual': Identity issues among L2 Welsh-speaking teenagers in English-medium schools in Wales

Nia Mererid Parry and Enlli Môn Thomas

Chapter 5. Learning of indigenous languages in university settings: A Decolonizing practice

Vilma Huerta Cordova, Mario E. López-Gopar, Kiara Ríos Ríos, Ariadna Teresa Lartigue Mendoza and Ana Edith López Cruz,

Chapter 6. Learning indigenous languages as a second language in Bilingual Intercultural Education programs in Peru

Karina Sullón and Elizabet Arocena

Chapter 7. Language proficiency and language use in Basque as a first or second language

Iñaki Martinez de Luna Pérez de Arriba, Maialen Iñarra Arregi and Pablo Suberbiola Unanue

Chapter 8. Potential new speakers of Frisian in educational settings - implicit and explicit attitudes in learning a minority language

Sannah Debreczeni, Joana Duarte and Mirjam Günther-van der Meij

Chapter 9. Building on the strength of identity in revitalizing Hawaiian on a foundation of second language learners

William H. Wilson and Kauanoe Kamana

Index