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Syed Abdul Manan – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Employing neoliberal governmentality as a conceptual frame, this paper presents evidence from the mushrooming English language academies from Pakistan to demonstrate that how neoliberal rationality as a normative order of reason governs the minds of learners and teachers without governing. Drawing on the analysis of an open-ended interview…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Commercialization, Social Capital, Cultural Capital
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Jia-Fen Wu; Hsin-Luen Tsai – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
This study reviews 105 articles concerning English-as-a-medium-of-instruction (EMI) taken from the Web of Science database (2005-2021). The growth trajectory, the productivity, co-citation analysis, and bibliographic coupling were performed to present the procedural change, the 'hotspot' themes, influential publications, authors, countries,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language of Instruction, Code Switching (Language)
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Carolyn McKinney – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Framed by decolonial theory, this paper explores how language and literacy ideologies, including Anglonormativity, or the expectation that children should be proficient in a standardised version of English and are deficient if not, shape language and literacy practices in South African classrooms. While not legitimised, the use of fluid language…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Bilingualism, Ethnography, Decolonization
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Ebner, Carmen – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2016
In this paper, the BBC's stance on English language use is investigated by analysing its language guidelines provided in the 2003 BBC "News Styleguide." Before the analysis is tackled, a brief discussion of the use of language and style guides in the media is given to illustrate its complexities and effects on news providers. In order to…
Descriptors: Journalism, Language Usage, Language Styles, Guides
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Lukac, Morana – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2016
The public's concern with the fate of the standard language has been well documented in the history of the complaint tradition. The print media have for centuries featured letters to the editor on questions of language use. This study examines a corpus of 258 language-related letters to the editor published in the English-speaking print media. By…
Descriptors: Standard Spoken Usage, Standards, Editing, Computational Linguistics
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Warriner, Doris S. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2016
Ideologies of language (and language learning)--in concert with discourses of individualism and meritocracy that characterize neoliberalism--shape pedagogical policies and practices in ways that are consequential for multilingual students all over the developing and developed world. To investigate how such intersections and influences work in…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Well Being
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Sterzuk, Andrea – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2015
As the result of global changes, government policy and university initiatives, institutions of higher education in Canada have become increasingly linguistically and racially diverse. Traditionally--through policy, curriculum, instruction and assessment--Canadian universities have promoted a subjective, monolithic and racialised…
Descriptors: Standard Spoken Usage, Correlation, Race, Foreign Countries
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Wenfeng, Wang; Gao, Xuesong – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2008
This paper reviews the research output on English language education in China published in 24 international journals from 2001 to 2006 and delineates the nature of this corpus of research. The review covers research in the following areas: the linguistic situations and culture of learning in China in relation to English language education,…
Descriptors: Research Needs, Language Planning, Asian Culture, Multilingualism
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Dicker, Susan J. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1998
Provides a historical overview of attitudes toward immigrants and their languages in the United States, gives an update of the Official English movement, and analyzes recent articles in business-related journals. Discussion centers on how businesses have adapted to a multilingual workforce and on the connection between the Official English…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Adults, Business, Cultural Pluralism
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Faltis, Christian J. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1989
Describes Jacobson's New Concurrent Approach to bilingual instruction, which systematically incorporates intersentential code-switching to teach content to limited English proficient children raised in a bilingual environment, and how such incorporation and adaptation contributes to the balanced distribution of the two codes in question. (24…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Code Switching (Language), English (Second Language), Language of Instruction
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Reid, Euan – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1988
A brief review of the main linguistic minorities in England and their common sociolinguistic interaction patterns precedes an overview of the three major historical stages of response by England's public education system to the presence of large numbers of speakers of other languages in their schools. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
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Chamot, Anna Uhl – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1988
Provides an overview of the current status and future directions of education for limited English proficient (LEP) elementary and secondary students in the United States, covering the estimated number of LEP students and teachers, government and legislative roles, school district services, teacher training programs, research, and program…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Educational History, Educational Research, Educational Trends
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Fehlen, Fernand – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2002
Focuses on the language situation in Luxembourg, examining the interference between Letzeburgesch on one hand and, French German, and English on the other. Bourdieu's concept of legitimate language is modified to match the situation in Luxembourg of "triglossia with trilinguaism" and the legitimate multilingual language competence, which…
Descriptors: English, Foreign Countries, French, German
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Tung, Peter C. S. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1990
Considers difficulties encountered when the language of instruction is changed from a second to a first language. A survey of Chinese-speaking teachers in Hong Kong who currently instruct in English indicates that they are more confident of their ability to teach using English and questions the government's promotion of Chinese as the language of…
Descriptors: Chinese, Educational Policy, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
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Xiaoju, Li – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1990
Discusses what has been done in the last five years to enhance the intrinsic power of the MET, the English test for entrance to all universities in China. (JL)
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, English (Second Language), Feedback, Foreign Countries
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