English teachers’ experiences handling mainstream classes and those with minority students differ as students’ learning communication styles vary. This study explored the lived teaching practices of purposively selected non-English majors to Filipino learners from different cultural groups: Mamanwa, Manobo, Hinigaon, Kamayo, Surigaonon, Muslim, Bisaya. The in-depth investigation through a pheno...

OBJECTIVES Language has been identified as a determinant of mental health. Within Canada, individuals may speak an official language and still belong within the linguistic minority (Francophones outside Quebec and Anglophones within Quebec). The objectives of this study were to compare mental health problems between minority and majority official language communities, and examine the associatio...

Public and academic debate has revealed concern with the extent and implications of national identification among minority groups in Western societies. In this paper we present new analysis of Understanding Society that expands the limited evidence on minority identification. Drawing on Berry’s acculturation framework, we explore patterns of dual minority and majority identification among the U...