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Noda, Mamiko; O'Regan, John P. – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2020
This article focuses upon the Japanese government's decision in 2009 to direct an 'English-only' strategy for English language education in senior high schools from 2013. In the "Course of Study 2009," and more recently again in the "Course of Study 2018," the Japanese government implicitly blames the local grammar-translation…
Descriptors: Native Language, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Yusra, Kamaludin; Lestari, Yuni Budi; Hamid, M. Obaidul – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2022
Tourism is a service industry that demands well-trained professionals with internationally accredited skills including English language proficiency. Meeting such demands has been one of the foremost concerns of the ASEAN ministries of tourism and education. In collaboration with ASEAN member countries and the Australian government, Indonesian…
Descriptors: Rating Scales, Guidelines, Tourism, Hospitality Occupations
Schornack, Miranda Lee; Karlsson, A. – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2021
Speakers of languages other than English are positioned as problems within education systems and 'low' academic English proficiency is viewed as something to be fixed. Alternative education programs are typically viewed as punitive, substandard, exclusionary academic settings. Therefore, speakers of languages other than English (ELs) enrolled in…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Nontraditional Education
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
Willoughby, Louisa – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2014
The heterogeneous backgrounds, languages and proficiencies students bring to the classroom have always been a key challenge facing schools that wish to implement heritage language programmes. In this article I describe the evolution of one high school's approach to heritage language education and some of the roadblocks they encountered in…
Descriptors: Heritage Education, Second Language Instruction, Native Language Instruction, Language of Instruction