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Seals, Corinne A.; Beliaeva, Natalia – Language Policy, 2023
The current article applies interactional sociolinguistic discourse analysis to interviews with three parents of Ukrainian families living in New Zealand to further complexify what we know about Family Language Policy (FLP) and language transmission. More specifically, this article theorizes what we call "Aspirational FLP"--when the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Family Environment, Language Usage, Native Language
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McPake, Joanna; McLeod, Wilson; O'Hanlon, Fiona; Fassetta, Giovanna; Wilson, Mona – Language Policy, 2017
Education through the medium of a minoritised language is widely regarded as a critical component of language revitalisation initiatives. Given the demographic and social position of many minoritised languages, however, it may not be easy to find teachers who are fluent and literate in the language, confident about using and teaching it, and…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Comparative Analysis, Teacher Education Programs, Foreign Countries
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Albury, Nathan John – Language Policy, 2017
Just as an expanded view of language policy now affords agency to many more actors across society than authorities and linguists alone, it also accepts that the dispositions these agents bring to language affairs influence language policy processes and outcomes. However, this paper makes the case that language policy may also be guided, to some…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Language Maintenance, Malayo Polynesian Languages, Foreign Countries
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de Bres, Julia – Language Policy, 2011
New Zealand's two main government Maori language planning agencies, the Maori Language Commission and the Ministry of Maori Development, have engaged for some time in language planning targeting the attitudes and behaviours of non-Maori New Zealanders towards the Maori language. This activity is undertaken on the basis that the attitudes and…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Foreign Countries, Malayo Polynesian Languages, Ethnic Groups