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Wan, Zhongyan; Gao, Xuesong – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2021
This longitudinal study draws on family language policy (FLP) research to examine a group of Chinese parents' ideological beliefs, practices, and management efforts related to their children's learning of multiple languages, including Chinese, English, and Spanish in an international boarding school in China. Based on data analysis, including…
Descriptors: Ideology, Beliefs, Parent Participation, Parents
Graham, Keith M.; Pan, W.-Y.; Eslami, Z. R. – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2021
Bilingual education is spreading throughout the world as an approach for teaching content and language simultaneously. This is particularly true in Taiwan where implementation of bilingual education has begun as directed by the Blueprint for Developing Taiwan into a Bilingual Nation by 2030. However, the spread of bilingual education is often…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Educational Policy, Monolingualism, Ideology
Taylor-Leech, Kerry – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2013
Timor-Leste offers a rich case study of the array of discursive influences on medium-of-instruction (MOI) policy in multilingual, post-colonial developing contexts. MOI policy in this young nation is a site of tension between struggles to define national identity in the shadow of colonial language ideologies and the globalised discourses of…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Ideology, Multilingualism, Language of Instruction
Phyak, Prem – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2013
This paper analyzes the ideologies and practices of local languages as the medium-of-instruction (MOI) policy in a multilingual school in Nepal. Grounded on the notion of language policy as a locally situated social practice, this critical ethnographic study investigates challenges--both ideological and implementational--that local languages MOI…
Descriptors: Learning Problems, Ethnography, Foreign Countries, Ideology
Perales Escudero, Moises Damian; Reyes Cruz, Maria del Rosario; Loyo, Griselda Murrieta – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2012
The quality of English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) instruction in elementary schools worldwide is an issue of concern for language policy and planning (LPP) scholars, as are examinations of power and ideologies operating in policy creation and implementation. This critical, exploratory study blends these two strands of inquiry by examining…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Ideology
Petrucci, Peter R.; Miyahira, Katsuyuki – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2009
This article uses Jernudd and Neustupny's (1987) theory of language management to address the planning, management and distribution of linguistic resources at the 4th Worldwide Uchinaanchu Festival (WUF), a diaspora festival held in Okinawa, Japan. WUF organizers--from Okinawa and diaspora communities abroad--were concerned with both international…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Linguistics, Multilingualism, Cooperation
Li, Minglin – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2011
This paper, drawing on the theoretical framework of critical discourse analysis, examines the general goals and objectives of the national curriculum reform launched by the Ministry of Education in 2001 for Chinese primary schools. Four policy documents relevant to the curriculum reform are analyzed, including Chinese curriculum and English…
Descriptors: National Curriculum, Curriculum Development, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Phyak, Prem Bahadur – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2011
The recent political transformation of Nepal from a constitutional monarchy to a federal democratic republic and from a Hindu polity to a secular country has brought about some crucial changes in language planning. The Interim Constitution of Nepal has not only recognized the multilingual and multicultural reality of the country but has also…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Educational Practices, Primary Education, Multilingualism