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He, Shanhua; Mao, Tiaoyuan – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2020
The current Language Policy and Planning (LPP) literature does not differentiate between LPP as practical planning and LPP as a research area. This lack of a conceptual distinction has led to difficulties in explaining the contradiction of the lethargic status of "LPP-research" and the vigorous reality of "LPP-practice." This…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Language Research, Government Role, Financial Support
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Phyak, Prem – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2013
This paper analyzes the ideologies and practices of local languages as the medium-of-instruction (MOI) policy in a multilingual school in Nepal. Grounded on the notion of language policy as a locally situated social practice, this critical ethnographic study investigates challenges--both ideological and implementational--that local languages MOI…
Descriptors: Learning Problems, Ethnography, Foreign Countries, Ideology
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Hamid, M. Obaidul; Jahan, Iffat; Islam, M. Monjurul – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2013
The use of English as a medium of instruction (MOI) in polities across the world has drawn attention of language policy and planning scholars and researchers. Increasingly, research on MOI policy and practice focuses on how macro-level policies are translated into action by "actors" including teachers and students in the micro-context.…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Ideology, Language Planning
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Petrucci, Peter R.; Miyahira, Katsuyuki – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2009
This article uses Jernudd and Neustupny's (1987) theory of language management to address the planning, management and distribution of linguistic resources at the 4th Worldwide Uchinaanchu Festival (WUF), a diaspora festival held in Okinawa, Japan. WUF organizers--from Okinawa and diaspora communities abroad--were concerned with both international…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Linguistics, Multilingualism, Cooperation
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Abdelhay, Ashraf; Makoni, Busi; Makoni, Sinfree; Mugaddam, Abdel Rahim – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2011
This monograph describes the historiography of language ideologies that led to the politicisation of Arabic and the Arabicisation of politics in the Sudan, starting from British colonial rule until the Comprehensive Peace Agreement that was a precursor to the separation of the South as an independent state. The monograph shows that the…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Historiography, Language Planning, Cartography
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Li, Minglin – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2011
This paper, drawing on the theoretical framework of critical discourse analysis, examines the general goals and objectives of the national curriculum reform launched by the Ministry of Education in 2001 for Chinese primary schools. Four policy documents relevant to the curriculum reform are analyzed, including Chinese curriculum and English…
Descriptors: National Curriculum, Curriculum Development, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Phyak, Prem Bahadur – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2011
The recent political transformation of Nepal from a constitutional monarchy to a federal democratic republic and from a Hindu polity to a secular country has brought about some crucial changes in language planning. The Interim Constitution of Nepal has not only recognized the multilingual and multicultural reality of the country but has also…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Educational Practices, Primary Education, Multilingualism
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Watanabe, Noriko – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2007
This paper discusses the collision between government guidelines on "kanji" use in public documents and Japanese naming practice that places significance on written forms. The tension between the state's need to control the legibility of its texts through allowable "kanji" character lists collides with people's rights and desires to name their own…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Personality, Court Litigation, Japanese
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Makoni, Busi; Makoni, Sinfree; Mashiri, Pedzisai – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2007
Studies of African naming practices focus almost exclusively on the meanings and etymology of names and details about the circumstances surrounding how such names are assigned. Such research has not examined the implications naming has for language planning, ideologies of language, and language shift. Focusing on names and naming practices in…
Descriptors: African Languages, Standard Spoken Usage, Language Planning, Etymology
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Coperahewa, Sandagomi – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2009
This monograph examines the language planning situation in Sri Lanka with particular emphasis on the planning of Sinhala as an official language of the country. It explores the historical, social, ideological and political processes, changes in language policy decisions, as well as the complexities of the language policy and planning situation in…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Official Languages, Foreign Countries, Indo European Languages
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Chriost, Diarmait Mac Giolla – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2006
This paper comprises a brief examination of the approach taken by the Welsh Language Board, as the principal language policy and planning body in Wales, with regard to aspects of prestige planning and the Welsh language. It describes how devolution and the recent, and first ever, national review by the Welsh Assembly Government of Welsh language…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Reputation, Foreign Countries, Welsh
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Chua, Catherine Siew Kheng – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2004
Singapore's leading literacy policy is affected by a tension between the ideologies associated with English and those attached to Singapore's mother tongues. Singaporeans must safeguard their heritages, keeping themselves open to the places where their ancestors came from by learning their designated mother tongues. At the same time, Singaporeans…
Descriptors: Ideology, Foreign Countries, Functional Literacy, Mandarin Chinese