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David Lasagabaster – Language Policy, 2025
South Africa immediately springs to mind as the epitome of multilingual language policies. In fact, its Constitution granted official status to 11 languages in 1996, and the Language Policy in Higher Education passed by the Ministry of Education in 2002 required universities to develop and use the indigenous official languages as academic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multilingualism, Language Planning, Student Attitudes
Polina Vorobeva; Dmitri Leontjev – Language Policy, 2025
The current study builds an argument for using Vygotskian "perezhivanie" as a theoretical perspective to explore the becoming and being of family language policy (FLP). We shift the focus from the three components constituting FLP -- language beliefs or ideologies, language practices, and language planning or management -- to the…
Descriptors: Family Relationship, Language Usage, Russian, Finno Ugric Languages
Peiru Bai; Andrea Susan Young – Language Policy, 2025
This paper explores family multilingualism through the lens of language ideologies upheld by parents within three Chinese transnational families living in Luxembourg. Following a linguistic ethnographic approach throughout the inquiry and analysis process, this study provides illuminating insights into the Chinese parents' language ideologies…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Second Language Learning, Native Language, Language Attitudes
María Cioè-Peña; Rebecca E. Linares; Sara E. N. Kangas – Language Policy, 2025
While language education programs were created with an equity stance in mind--with the goals of increasing access and facilitating academic success for ethnically and linguistically marginalized students--the larger educational context has compromised access for multiply marginalized students. Recognizing a need for more complex understandings of…
Descriptors: Power Structure, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Multilingualism
Mary Amanda Stewart; Alexandra Babino; Victor Antonio Lozada; Ángeles Muñoz; Zulma Mojica – Language Policy, 2025
Many classrooms include students who use multiple languages other than the school-sanctioned or teacher's language(s). This study asks how English-medium teachers develop language ideologies that support critical translingual literacy instruction. Using a collective case study, we ask how five English-medium teachers in a U.S. graduate course name…
Descriptors: Language of Instruction, Graduate School Faculty, English, Language Minorities
Nirukshi Perera; Iryna Khodos – Language Policy, 2025
This article explores how language learning is an integral component of progressing linguistic reconciliation in contexts of war and conflict. Sri Lanka is a case where ethnolinguistic division and the devaluation of Tamil as a co-official language has led to linguistic injustice for Tamil people and users of Tamil. In the post-war landscape,…
Descriptors: Dravidian Languages, Foreign Countries, War, Conflict
Tolera Simie; Jim McKinley – Language Policy, 2025
Ethiopia, with no colonial language legacy, adopted English medium instruction (EMI) policy with the establishment of its first higher education institution, University College of Addis Ababa, over seven decades ago. Over the last two decades, the country has significantly expanded its higher education institutions (HEIs) to increase skilled human…
Descriptors: Language of Instruction, English (Second Language), Universities, Institutional Mission
Bernard M. Barruga – Language Policy, 2025
This study aimed to explore the implementation of the Mother Tongue-Based Multilingual Education (MTB-MLE) policy by public elementary teachers in the Philippines through a case study approach. Specifically, the study sought to examine how three elementary teachers in one public school institution distinctively implement the MTB-MLE policy in…
Descriptors: Public School Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Nonstandard Dialects, Native Language Instruction
Sin-Yi Chang – Language Policy, 2025
The Bilingual 2030 policy in Taiwan has attracted both support and criticism since it was introduced in 2018. Those who embrace the policy consider it an opportunity for Taiwan to become more globally connected, while those who are skeptical question whether the policy could actually lead Taiwan to a better place in the longer run--not just…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Bilingualism, Multilingualism, Public Opinion
S. Ramamoorthy; Sunita Mishra – Language Policy, 2025
English is known as a language of domination and hegemony making. But in certain contexts, it can function as a liberatory tool that can be used to overcome hindrances for emancipation and progress. The objective of this paper is to exemplify how Dalits--marginalised and oppressed communities--in India view English as a means of resisting…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes, Ethnic Groups, Social Class
Cory A. Buckband – Language Policy, 2025
This paper utilizes raciolinguistic genealogy (Flores, in International Journal of the Sociology of Language 2021:111-115, 2021) to explore an historical case study of Spanish Franciscan missionaries in Alta California during an early period of colonization spanning the seventeenth-nineteenth centuries. In the study, I apply a raciolinguistic lens…
Descriptors: Spanish, Race, Language Attitudes, Colonialism
Tetyana Lunyova; Ursula Lanvers; Oksana Zelik – Language Policy, 2025
For centuries, Ukraine has been a site of conflicts over language rights. During 70 years of Soviet leadership, Ukraine experienced'relentless Russification' (Reznik in Language of conflict: discourses of the Ukrainian crisis (pp. 169-191). Bloomsbury Publishing, London, 2020 p. 170). After breaking from Soviet rule, the Ukrainian language became…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Usage, Russian, Language Planning
Lindsey Brown – Language Policy, 2025
For over two decades, emergent bilingual students in Arizona have languished under the state's English-only Structured English Immersion policies. Using Theo Van Leeuwan's (2007) legitimation in discourse framework, this study longitudinally tracks shifts in legitimation tactics across the four iterations of the policy--its inception with…
Descriptors: Language of Instruction, English, Language Planning, Educational Policy
John Bosco Conama – Language Policy, 2025
This article will explore the impact of various language education policies and their measures on Irish Sign Language (ISL) in Irish deaf education. The focus will be on how previous and current policy decisions regarding language education have affected the use and recognition of ISL as a legitimate language in the education system. The article…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sign Language, Deafness, Educational Policy
Chonglong Gu – Language Policy, 2025
Partly as a result of China's reform and opening-up and the broader trend of globalisation, Guangzhou in Southern China has risen to global prominence as a commercial and business hub. Strategically positioned as a centre of 'low-end globalisation', Guangzhou has attracted investors, traders and businessmen from Africa, the Middle East and South…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Planning, Sociolinguistics, Contrastive Linguistics