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Heiko Motschenbacher – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2024
This study demonstrates that linguistic landscape analysis is a powerful tool for assessing the effectiveness of a university language policy, as it provides "in situ" evidence for discursive patterns shaping language use in public space. It uses the official language policy of a Norwegian institution of higher education (Høgskulen på…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Official Languages, Educational Policy
Rachel McKee; Mireille Vale – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2024
This paper examines recent lexical expansion in New Zealand Sign Language (NZSL) in the context of change in the status of the language and ongoing contact with other (spoken and signed) languages. We categorised 917 new signs documented in the past five years according to their source, semantic field, and sign formation mechanism(s), both…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Semiotics, Linguistic Borrowing, Phrase Structure
Yawen Han; Dan Li; Juan Dong – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2025
Informed by the theoretical concepts of 'practiced' language policy and space, the study investigates the language practices of English-medium Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) programs for international students, focusing on the interactional norms of language choice in a Chinese hospital where international students are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Planning, Language Role, English (Second Language)
Sarah Hopkyns; Sender Dovchin; Shaila Sultana – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2025
English-medium instruction (EMI) is on the rise around the world due to globalization, internationalization and neoliberal ideologies which equate English with social capital, prestige, and success in the labour market. While many EMI policies aim to equip students with English as a 'lingua academia', produce 'neoliberal subjects' and compete in…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Language Attitudes, Language of Instruction, English (Second Language)