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Savski, Kristof – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2017
This article analyses how the drafting and implementation of the Resolution for a National Language Policy Programme 2014-2018, a Slovene language strategy, were influenced by political instability and inter-institutional struggles. By conducting a historical ethnography to trace how different authors contributed to the policy text, and examining…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Slavic Languages, Language Planning, Political Influences
Kamwendo, Gregory Hankoni; Dlamini, Nosisi Percis – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2016
The paper discusses language planning at a cross-border university (a Zimbabwean university) that offers academic programmes to the Kingdom of Swaziland in the Southern African region. The paper is situated within the micro-level language planning framework, and discusses language decisions that govern three areas of university business, namely:…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Newspapers, Web Sites, Observation
Phan, T. T. Huyen; Hamid, M. Obaidul – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2017
Learner autonomy (LA) is generally accepted as an important goal, either explicit or implicit, in language education policies across polities. Fostering LA in educational settings primarily depends on the role of teachers in enacting macro-level policies at the micro level. While various top-down and bottom-up frameworks for language policy…
Descriptors: Sociocultural Patterns, Personal Autonomy, Educational Policy, Second Language Learning
Chin Leong, Patrick N. G. – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2017
English-medium instruction (EMI) is gaining momentum in Japan as politicians constantly highlight the need for Japanese universities to cultivate students with English skills to participate in the global market. Adopting a framework on the failure of policy implementation [Schiffman, H. (2007). Tamil language policy in Singapore. The role of…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language of Instruction, Language Planning
Han, Yawen; De Costa, Peter I.; Cui, Yaqiong – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2016
We focus on the learning of English in a Chinese university in Jiangsu and the university's preferential language policy, which allowed Uyghur minority students from Xinjiang to be enrolled despite their lower scores in the entrance examination. Guided by the constructs of language ideologies [Kroskrity, P. V. (2000). "Regimes of language:…
Descriptors: Ethnic Groups, Minority Group Students, English (Second Language), Educational Policy
Carroll, Kevin S. – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2016
This paper describes the language policies at 38 institutions of higher education on the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico. As a commonwealth of the US, Spanish and English hold co-official status on Puerto Rico despite the fact that majority of islanders use Spanish as their first language. Given the colonial status of the island, English has held…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Bilingualism, Spanish, English (Second Language)
Fenton-Smith, Ben; Gurney, Laura – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2016
Nearly two decades have passed since Kaplan and Baldauf [1997. "Language planning from practice to theory." Clevedon: Multilingual Matters] drew attention to the dearth of language policy and planning (LPP) in higher education. Despite the continuing inflow of English as an additional language students into Anglophone universities, and a…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Academic Discourse, Educational Policy, Higher Education
Evans, Stephen; Morrison, Bruce – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2017
Research into the medium of instruction (MOI) in Hong Kong has traditionally focused on years 7-9; thus, little is known about school policies and classroom practices in the crucial senior-secondary years which fall beyond the ambit of government diktats. This lacuna is particularly conspicuous in the case of Chinese-medium schools, whose students…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language of Instruction, Sino Tibetan Languages
Finn, Heather B.; Avni, Sharon – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2016
This qualitative study offers critical insight into how language policy interacts with daily classroom decisions at a large and highly diverse urban community college in the United States. Specifically, it examines the challenges that faculty teaching developmental writing courses for English language learners experience when determining what…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Developmental Programs, Language Planning, Literacy
Fuentes, Ronald – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2016
In response to growing linguistic diversity, many U.S. universities have implemented language policies that include procedures for English learner (EL) identification. Institutional labels such as "English learner" and "limited English proficiency" are regularly used to identify students who may need English language support;…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Immigrants, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Miranda, Norbella; Berdugo, Martha; Tejada, Harvey – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2016
The current internationalization trends in higher education and educational language policies impel universities to plan their provision of foreign languages. Often, universities are developing language policies, redesigning their foreign language programs and seeking to foster bilingual or multilingual strategies within graduate and undergraduate…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Educational Policy, Policy Formation, English (Second Language)
Siiner, Maarja – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2016
Nation states increasingly assign the responsibility for meeting the global competitiveness agenda to the universities themselves [Cirius, 2009, "Mobilitetsstatistik for de videregaaende uddannelser 2007/08" [Mobility statistics for higher education 2007/08]]. In Denmark, universities that have introduced English as an instrument to…
Descriptors: Language Planning, International Education, Work Environment, Immigration
Mgqwashu, Emmanuel Mfanafuthi – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2014
This paper reports on a study that examined the extent to which the development of academic literacy in isiZulu, an indigenous language spoken across all the nine provinces in South Africa, enhances opportunities for epistemological access. The focus is in relation to a pilot study of a Bachelor of Education Honours module that uses isiZulu as the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Planning, African Languages, Academic Discourse
Higgins, Robert M.; Brady, Alan – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2016
An initiative termed "Global 30 Project for Establishing Core Universities for Internationalization" (hereafter G30) in Japan aims for the recruitment of an additional 300,000 international students by 2020 to study in Japan in English, and also aims to send many more Japanese university students overseas than are now studying outside…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Private Colleges, Ethnography, Interviews
Möllering, Martina; Benholz, Claudia; Mavruk, Gülsah – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2014
This contribution traces the development of an educational support program ("Förderunterricht") for immigrant children in the German Ruhr area, a region that has traditionally been strongly impacted by different waves of immigration. The program has grown out of what was originally a small-scale application of research results of a study…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Educational Policy, German, Geographic Regions
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