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New Speakers of West Frisian: Promoting Language Learning and Use to Foster Revitalisation

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This report is based on the research project New Speakers of West Frisian: Promoting Language Learning and Use to Foster Revitalisation. The report begins with an overview of the project design, followed by separate discussions regarding the four parts of the project – Part 1: motivations for learning West Frisian, Part 2: attitudes towards West Frisian, Part 3: evaluations of the standardised variety of West Frisian, and Part 4: use of West Frisian. The report presents the main outcomes and outputs of the project, it offers reflections on these, and it concludes by providing research-based recommendations regarding language policy and planning measures as well as future research.

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  • The new speakers project page on the Open Science Framework (includes the questionnaire, the preregistra- tions, the R code, and supplementary materials): https://osf.io/t3rc9/
  • The new speakers project page on the Mercator web- site (includes an overview of the research project and the outputs) – Frisian: https://www.mercator-research. eu/fy/nijesprekkers/ and English: https://www.mercator-research.eu/en/ newspeakers/
  • The preprint of the article about new speakers' motiva- tions for learning West Frisian: in preparation
  • The preprint of the article about new speakers' attitudes towards West Frisian and their evaluative reactions to Afûk Frisian: https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/yuw6z
  • The preprint of the article about new speakers' use of West Frisian: https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/m6ej3
  • The Praat mar Frysk – ek mei nije Fryskpraters ("Let's speak Frisian – also with new speakers") campaign page on the Praat mar Frysk website: https://www.praatmarfrysk.nl/nijefryskpraters/
  • The teaching materials to help Afûk teachers discuss Frisian use between traditional and new speakers – Frisian: https://www.mercator-research.eu/fileadmin/ mercator/beelden/projects/NSF_Teaching_Materials_F. pdf and English: https://www.mercator-research.eu/filead- min/mercator/beelden/projects/NSF_Teaching_Materi- als_E.pdf