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Language Policy in French Colonies and after Independence
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Spolsky, Bernard – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2018
French colonies were created for the benefit not of the indigenous conquered peoples but of the home country. Their borders were set for political convenience and produced a jumble of ethnicities, languages, and cultures. Exploitation came first, and there was generally no attempt to find a workable educational solution to the local diversity.…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Foreign Policy, French, Second Language Learning
English Language Spread in Local Contexts: Turkey, Latvia and France
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Uysal, Hacer Hande; Plakans, Lia; Dembovskaya, Svetlana – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2007
In the discussion of English language spread policies, scholars have taken various viewpoints. One approach concerns the "diffusion-of-English" and "language ecology" paradigms, which distinguish externally dominant English spread and resistance to this hegemony. Others have questioned this approach, and proposed that English…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Languages as Resources: Policies to Enhance Dutch and French.
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Bostock, William W. – Babel, 1988
Documents the evolution of the Dutch and French languages. Policy and planning initiatives for both languages are discussed, and organizations responsible for planning initiatives for each language are described. (DJD)
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, Dutch, French, Language Planning
Multilingualism in Europe and the US: A Communications Challenge for Transatlantic Relations and Global Business. Conclusions from an International Round Table Seminar Conducted by the European Institute (Washington, D.C., November 1992).
European Inst., Washington, DC. – 1993
A November 1992 conference on multilingualism and the role of language in European-American communications and trade is summarized in a series of brief essays. After a foreword from the president of the Commission of the European Communities, these articles are presented: an introduction (Jacqueline Grapin); "Towards Transatlantic Linguistic…
Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, Foreign Countries, Intercultural Communication, International Relations
Language Revival in France: The Regional Idioms.
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Slone, G. Tod – Language Problems and Language Planning, 1989
A historical survey of French regional language legislation and analysis of the present state of the seven regional idioms in education, media, and government are used to illustrate the languages' severe persecution and contamination. Organizations promoting the less-used languages and the upcoming barrier-free European market accord are…
Descriptors: Basque, Diachronic Linguistics, Dialects, Dutch
The Spread of English: From France to a More General Perspective.
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Truchot, Claude – World Englishes, 1997
Outlines a framework for analyzing the spread of English in eight areas: the sciences, business and industry, culture and media, daily life, education, language contact phenomena (codeswitching, linguistic borrowing), attitudes toward English, and language policies. Specific focus is on the situation in France, but provides a perspective…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Cultural Pluralism, Economic Development, Education
Actes des Journees de linguistique (Proceedings of the Linguistics Conference) (10th, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, April 2-4, 1996).
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Laberge, Julie, Ed.; Vezina, Robert, Ed. – 1996
The 33 papers, all in French, from the 1996 conference on research in linguistics address a wide range of topics in linguistics, including: linguists as an endangered species; categorizing verb specifiers in Yoruba; socio-terminology as a framework for understanding the language of orthodontia; French-to-Arabic borrowings in the 19th and 20th…
Descriptors: Advertising, African Languages, Arabic, Bilingualism