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Language Policy in Education and Its Affect in Cyprus Issues on the Development of Identity and Interethnic Relationships
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Karmellou, Christalla – Online Submission, 2008
The paper discusses educational and language policy issues within the context of the Greek Cypriot education as prescribed by the constitutional provisions of the 1960s settlement. In view of the prospect of unification in Cyprus, the author examines the role of language educational policy in future peace building. Key issues regarding ethnic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Public Policy, Sociolinguistics
Turkish Language Reform in a Language Planning Framework: Its Impact on Language Use of Turkish Cypriot High School Students.
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Dogancay, Seran – 1993
Turkish language reform began as a language simplification effort by literary figures of the late 19th century, gathering momentum in the 1920s and 1930s to become a large-scale planning activity to save Turkish from domination by foreign influences. Change in script was easy due to low literacy rates, but purification of the lexicon, by stylistic…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Diachronic Linguistics, Foreign Countries, High School Students
The Spread of English in Turkey and Its Current Sociolinguistic Profile.
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Dogancay-Aktuna, Seran – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1998
Traces the spread of English in Turkey in its social and historical context and then examines the current sociolinguistic profile of English in this English-as-a-Foreign-Language context by analyzing its functions, range, and depth, through an overview of its role in national education and the job market. (Author/JL)
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Language Attitudes
Recueil des legislations linguistiques dans le monde. Tome V: l'Algerie, l'Autriche, la Chine, le Danemark, la Finlande, la Hongrie, l'ile de Malte, le Maroc, la Norvege, la Nouvelle-Zelande, les Pays-Bas, le Royaume-Uni, la Tunisie, la Turquie, l'ex-URSS (Record of World Language-Related Legislation. Volume V: Algeria, Austria, China, Denmark, Finland, Hungary, Malta, Morocco, Norway, New Zealand, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Tunisia, Turkey, the former USSR).
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Leclerc, Jacques, Ed.; Maurais, Jacques, Ed. – 1994
The volume is one of a series of six listing language-related legislation around the world. It contains the texts, in French, of laws of Algeria, Austria, China, Denmark, Finland, Hungary, Malta, Morocco, Norway, New Zealand, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Tunisia, Turkey, and the former Soviet Union. The laws concern official languages,…
Descriptors: Armed Forces, Courts, Educational Administration, Educational Policy
Language Policy, Language Education, Language Rights: Indigenous, Immigrant, and International Perspectives.
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Hornberger, Nancy H. – Language in Society, 1998
Discusses cases of indigenous/immigrant languages that are in danger of disappearing because they are not being transmitted to the next generation, including languages of South America, South Africa, Southeast Asia, Wales, New Zealand, Turkey, and native languages of California. Such cases provide evidence that language policy and education serve…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Educational Policy, Foreign Countries, Global Approach
Recueil des legislations linguistiques dans le monde. Tome VI: La Colombie, les Etats-Unis, le Mexique, Porto Rico at les traites internationaux (Record of World Language-Related Legislation. Volume VI: Colombia, the United States, Mexico, Puerto Rico, and International Treaties).
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Leclerc, Jacques, Ed.; Maurais, Jacques, Ed. – 1994
The volume is one of a series of six listing language-related legislation around the world. It contains the texts, in French, of laws of Colombia, the United States federal and some state governments (California, Florida, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, and New York), Mexico, and Puerto Rico, and those relating to international…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Federal Government, Federal Legislation, Federal Regulation
Proceedings of the International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) International Conference on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in Digital Age (CELDA) (Madrid, Spain, October 19-21, 2012)
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International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Support Services, Access to Computers