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McAdory, Sara E.; Janmaat, Jan Germen – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2015
Some recent studies have suggested a significant bottom-up or parental component to recent movements for autochthonous minority language-medium education (MLME). This study takes MLME as the outcome of interest and seeks to explain trends in Irish-medium education (IME) in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland since 1920--a unique…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Minorities, Educational History, Comparative Analysis
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Hailemariam, Chefena; Kroon, Sjaak; Walters, Joel – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1999
Focuses on language choice in Eritrea within the broader context of language policy in multilingual states. Pre-colonial and post-colonial language policies are surveyed in relation to evolving linguistic and political nationalism. Post-independence language policy is examined from the perspective of the functional allocation of nine Eritrean…
Descriptors: Colonialism, Foreign Countries, Language of Instruction, Multilingualism
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Morris, Nancy – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1996
Reviews the history of the language controversy in Puerto Rico from the United States takeover of the island in 1898 through the 1991 and 1993 language laws that eliminated and then restored English as an official language. The article emphasizes the shifting ways that language has served as a symbolic maker. (47 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Change Agents, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language), Language Attitudes