@article{Hodges_2011, place={Tartu, Estonia}, title={Towards the light – tua’r goleuni: Welsh medium education for the non-Welsh speaking in south Wales: A parent’s choice}, volume={2}, url={https://ojs.utlib.ee/index.php/jeful/article/view/jeful.2011.2.1.20}, DOI={10.12697/jeful.2011.2.1.20}, abstractNote={<p><span style="left: 215.64px; top: 249.86px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.951328);">The Welsh-medium education system has long been seen </span><span style="left: 141.72px; top: 269.779px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.00815);">as an effective tool of Welsh language production in Wales. The </span><span style="left: 141.72px; top: 289.819px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.945752);">aim of this paper is to provide an overview of Welsh medium </span><span style="left: 141.72px; top: 309.859px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.94896);">education in one south Wales Valley, ‘Cwm Rhymni / Rhymni</span><span style="left: 141.72px; top: 329.778px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.98631);">Valley’. The main reasoning behind the primary research is to fo</span><span style="left: 141.72px; top: 349.818px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.990109);">cus on the reasons why non-Welsh speaking parents chose Welsh </span><span style="left: 141.72px; top: 369.859px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.968632);">medium education for their children. The research focuses on edu</span><span style="left: 141.72px; top: 389.778px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.968575);">cation but recognises the over lapping nature of the main language </span><span style="left: 141.72px; top: 409.818px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.983314);">transmission spheres within Welsh language planning, i.e. family, </span><span style="left: 141.72px; top: 429.858px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.975888);">community and workplace. This study adopts a mainly qualitative </span><span style="left: 141.72px; top: 449.777px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.00342);">research strategy by administering 60 unstructured interviews to </span><span style="left: 141.72px; top: 469.817px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.972829);">parents who chose Welsh medium nursery, primary and secondary </span><span style="left: 141.72px; top: 489.858px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.986501);">schools for their children. However, as a secondary methodologi</span><span style="left: 141.72px; top: 509.777px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.971719);">cal tool, a semi-structured questionnaire was given out prior to the </span><span style="left: 141.72px; top: 529.817px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.00225);">interviews and the interview sample was then drawn from these. </span><span style="left: 141.72px; top: 549.857px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.986098);">Moreover, Welsh language resurgence within Anglicized areas of </span><span style="left: 141.72px; top: 569.776px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.96361);">South Wales is a fairly unexplored field, this study is hoped to be a </span><span style="left: 141.72px; top: 589.816px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.988511);">catalyst for many more future studies in this field and attempts to </span><span style="left: 141.72px; top: 609.857px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.967432);">address the existing lacunae.</span></p>}, number={1}, journal={Eesti ja soome-ugri keeleteaduse ajakiri. Journal of Estonian and Finno-Ugric Linguistics}, author={Hodges, Rhian Siân}, year={2011}, month={Dec.}, pages={303–314} }