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Direct linkSeals, Corinne A.; Peyton, Joy Kreeft – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2017
This article argues for the value of heritage language programs and the micro-level language policies that support them, focusing on a case study of a program in the USA to make this argument. We also argue for the importance of recognizing students' heritage languages, cultures, and individual goals and identities in mainstream school programs.…
Descriptors: Heritage Education, Cultural Awareness, Case Studies, Self Concept
Schneider, Cindy – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2015
In the early 1990s, the government of Papua New Guinea (PNG) enacted educational reform. It officially abandoned its English-only policy at elementary school level, in favour of community languages. In response, the Kairak community of East New Britain Province developed a vernacular literacy programme. This paper, based on original fieldwork…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Native Language
Peer reviewedBaldauf, Richard B., Jr.; Kaplan, Robert B.; Kamwangamalu, Nkonko; Bryant, Pauline – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2011
Primary school second/foreign language (SL/FL) programmes in Asia, as well as in other parts of the world, are becoming more common, with many targeting English as the SL or FL. The pressures for such English language programmes come from top-down notions that in a globalised world English is required for societies to be competitive, especially…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
