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Download full textJean-Marie Arrighi – Mercator European Research Centre on Multilingualism and Language Learning, 2024
Corsican is a Romance language that belongs to the Italo-Romance group. Corsican has been recognised since 1974 as a regional language in France by the Ministry of National Education. The language is officially recognised by the French Constitution as belonging to the heritage of France. Over the past 25 years, several laws, decrees, regulations,…
Descriptors: Romance Languages, Foreign Countries, Language Planning, Educational Policy
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Direct linkWalsh, Thomas – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2023
Following a period of close to a century when the Irish language was placed at the margins of the education system under British rule, there was a radical change in curriculum provision following political independence in Ireland in the 1920s. The importance of the Irish language in defining sovereignty, national identity, and nationhood in the…
Descriptors: Nationalism, Bilingualism, Irish, Language Maintenance
Riemersma, Alex – Mercator European Research Centre on Multilingualism and Language Learning, 2023
The aim of the Regional Dossier series is to provide concise descriptions of minority languages in education, mainly in Europe but also in other parts of the world. West Frisian, commonly referred to as Frisian (Frisian: Frysk), is a western Germanic, autochthonous minority and official language spoken in Friesland (Frisian: Fryslân), one of the…
Descriptors: Indo European Languages, Statistical Data, Language Minorities, Native Language Instruction
Chew, Kari A. B.; Tennell, Courtney – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2023
As Indigenous scholars committed to Indigenous education in Oklahoma, we use a decolonizing approach to consider how the 39 Indigenous Nations in Oklahoma assert educational sovereignty to sustain Indigenous high school students' linguistic and cultural identities. Seeking to promote education models that sustain and revitalize Indigenous…
Descriptors: Public Schools, American Indian Languages, High School Students, American Indian Culture
Doleschal, Ursula – Mercator European Research Centre on Multilingualism and Language Learning, 2023
This Regional Dossier focuses on the Austrian federal province of Carinthia, where the vast majority of the Slovene-speaking minority in Austria lives. The Slovene language belongs to the South Slavic language group. It was the official language of the Socialist Republic of Slovenia in former Yugoslavia and has been the state language of…
Descriptors: Slavic Languages, Native Language, Native Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Casadio, Ylenia – Education Research and Perspectives, 2021
After World War II there was a push to reinvigorate the economies and industries of Western Europe, and to find methods to avoid the outbreak of more wars in the region. As a result, the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) was founded in 1952 (European Coal and Steel Community, 2016) an important step towards the full European Union (EU), led…
Descriptors: War, Economic Development, Fuels, Metallurgy
Mahapatra, Santosh Kumar; Anderson, Jason – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2023
This paper proposes a framework for multilingual language-in-education policy implementation, offered as a critically constructive response to India's recent "National Education Policy 2020" (GOI, 2020). Rooted in India's existing educational language policy, our linguistically inclusive 'Languages for Learning' (LFL) framework is, we…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Outcomes of Education, Multilingualism, Language of Instruction
Gardner, Nick, Comp. – Mercator European Research Centre on Multilingualism and Language Learning, 2020
This regional dossier aims to provide a concise description of the European minority language, Basque or "Euskara" in Spain, in education. Aspects that are addressed include features of the education system, recent educational policies, main actors, legal arrangements and support structures, as well as quantitative aspects such as the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Languages, Language Minorities, Native Language Instruction
Vanco, Ildikó, Comp. – Mercator European Research Centre on Multilingualism and Language Learning, 2020
This regional dossier aims to provide a concise description of the European minority language, Hungarian in Slovakia, in education. Aspects that are addressed include features of the education system, recent educational policies, main actors, legal arrangements and support structures, as well as quantitative aspects such as the number of schools,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Minorities, Native Language Instruction, Second Language Instruction
Baïdak, Nathalie; Noorani, Sogol – Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency, European Commission, 2019
This Eurydice report provides a short overview of policy efforts made across Europe in support of the teaching of regional or minority languages in schools. It firstly presents the reference made to regional or minority languages by top-level education authorities in official documents. It then illustrates some of the policies and measures related…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Native Language Instruction
Rivers, William P.; Brecht, Richard D. – Foreign Language Annals, 2018
In honor of the 50th Anniversary of "Foreign Language Annals," and recognizing the seminal role this journal has in informing the language education profession about policies and programs, we sketch a future for advocacy for language education in the United States. Drawing on the Languages for All initiative and the work of the…
Descriptors: Role, Periodicals, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Regional Educational Laboratory Northwest, 2021
In Alaska, where Alaska Native students constitute the largest racial/ethnic group of English learner (EL) students, it is an open question whether and how EL policies and services meet the unique needs of Indigenous EL students. A stronger understanding of how Alaska Native students experience EL identification, classification, service provision,…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, English Language Learners, Language Proficiency, Indigenous Populations
Bogatec, Norina, Ed. – Mercator European Research Centre on Multilingualism and Language Learning, 2020
The aim of the Regional dossiers series is to provide a concise description of European minority languages in education. Aspects that are addressed include features of the education system, recent educational policies, main actors, legal arrangements and support structures, as well as quantitative aspects such as the number of schools, teachers,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Minorities, Native Language Instruction, Language Usage
Badma-Odsar, Comp.; Hailia, Comp. – Mercator European Research Centre on Multilingualism and Language Learning, 2019
In this dossier the focus is mainly on the Mongolian language in education in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (hereafter: Inner Mongolia). The Khalkha dialect, which is a dialect of the Mongolian language, is written with its Cyrillic script in Mongolia. In Inner Mongolia, people write with Hudum, a vertical Mongolian script that is also…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Minorities, Native Language Instruction, Language Usage
Hagan, Linda, Comp. – Mercator European Research Centre on Multilingualism and Language Learning, 2020
The aim of the Regional dossiers series is to provide a concise description of European minority languages in education. Aspects that are addressed include features of the education system, recent educational policies, main actors, legal arrangements and support structures, as well as quantitative aspects such as the number of schools, teachers,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Minorities, Native Language Instruction, Language Usage
