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Guy, Gregory R. – Language Problems and Language Planning, 1989
Stresses the importance of maintaining multilingualism in the United States in the face of arguments by "English Only" advocates that the U.S. risks being torn apart by multilingualism. Historical evidence from the Soviet Union and from Australia is cited to support the viability of successful management of multilingualism. (Author/DJD)
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, Federal Regulation, Foreign Countries, Language Maintenance

Cloonan, Jeanne Denise; Strine, James Michael – Language Problems and Language Planning, 1991
Examines the move toward federal constitutional rights for minority language populations and the trade-off considerations of implementing such a move. It is argued that minority language populations benefit from maintenance of decentralized language policies and that state bureaucratic agencies are more protective of language minority rights than…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Language Maintenance, Language Planning, Minority Groups

Adcock, C. John – Language Problems and Language Planning, 1987
Attempts to consider all of the relevant aspects of the role of the Maori culture and language in developing New Zealand's language policy. Those aspects considered include national identity, cultural bias, and international communication needs. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Cultural Awareness, Foreign Countries, Language Attitudes

Tonkin, Humphrey – Language Problems and Language Planning, 1987
The history of Esperanto, a language created to promote international communication, is chronicled. Discussion focuses on the origins and development of the language, early attitudes toward its adoption, patterns of use and recognition, the development of a literature in and of Esperanto, the culture associated with the language. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Cultural Traits, Diachronic Linguistics, Intercultural Communication, Language Attitudes

Mar-Molinero, Clare; Stevenson, Patrick – Language Problems and Language Planning, 1991
A response to an argument that Canadian language policy prevents the self-defense of minority languages through exclusive territorial control (LaPonce, 1984) addresses the relative neglect of research concerning language and territoriality in the European context and contrasts the contemporary multilingual situations in Spain and Switzerland to…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Foreign Countries, Language Maintenance, Language Planning

ya Rubango, Nyunda – Language Problems and Language Planning, 1986
Factors affecting the survival or decline of French in Zaire are examined, including its social, cultural, and political status, the history of other European languages established in Africa, and the influences of intercultural needs and ethnic identity on the continued use of French. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Diachronic Linguistics, Foreign Countries, French

King, Kendall A. – Language Problems and Language Planning, 1999
Drawing from the study of efforts to revitalize Quichua in the Southern Ecuadorian Highlands, this article describes what may be some of the common language corpus and language status transformations that threatened languages undergo during the process of language revitalization. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Maintenance, Language Planning, Language Skill Attrition

Rensch, Karl H. – Language Problems and Language Planning, 1990
Describes two major events--mass migration to New Caledonia in the 1950s and the conversion from a protectorate to a French overseas territory in 1961--that have confronted Wallis and Futuna (Central Polynesia) with the same sociolinguistic problems that have beset other Pacific islands for decades. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Culture Contact, English, Foreign Countries, French

Fakuade, Gbenga – Language Problems and Language Planning, 1989
A Federal Government Policy in Nigeria aimed at unifying the country through the use of three major languages (Hausa, Yoruba, and Igbo) has been inhibited because there are no teachers. Resistance from speakers of other languages to the enforced learning of one of the major languages also seems likely. Maintenance of English is suggested as the…
Descriptors: English, Federal Regulation, Foreign Countries, Hausa