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Heiko Motschenbacher – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2024
This study demonstrates that linguistic landscape analysis is a powerful tool for assessing the effectiveness of a university language policy, as it provides "in situ" evidence for discursive patterns shaping language use in public space. It uses the official language policy of a Norwegian institution of higher education (Høgskulen på…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Official Languages, Educational Policy
István Jánk; Szilvia Rási – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2025
This study primarily focuses on the situation of Hungarians in minority situations in relation to language varieties, i.e. it interprets the various language policy issues primarily in the context of the Hungarian-speaking community, rather than in the context of Hungary, where the place, role and relationship between standard and non-standard…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Minorities, Native Language, Hungarian
Fan Fang; Xinxin Yao – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2025
Amidst the rapid processes of industrialization and globalization, the interplay between minority and majority languages has garnered increasing attention, highlighting concerns surrounding linguistic diversity and the efficacious enactment of language policies. This study delves into the intricacies of language planning within the familial…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Family Relationship, Native Language, Second Language Learning
Lin Chen; Danping Wang – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2024
The field of language policy and planning has seen increasing scholarly attention that explores social actors' micro language planning towards a given language policy situation at the grassroots level. In educational contexts, teachers and educators are often considered pivotal locals whose agency, when enacted in micro language planning, can…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Heritage Education, Mandarin Chinese, Native Language
Lee, Daphnee Hui Lin – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2020
This paper examines the unintended consequences of state language policy and planning (LPP) that adopt subtractive approaches on teachers' subsequent receptivity to policy fine-tuning. A comparative approach is adopted in this statistical study of two strategic contexts, where the influence of the world's two leading languages--English and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Policy, Language Planning, Native Language
Sanden, Guro R. – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2020
This paper examines the use of the two written Norwegian language standards, Nynorsk and Bokmål, by companies in Norway. By adopting a legal perspective on the language policy of Norway as stipulated by the Language Council of Norway (2005) and the Norwegian Ministry of Culture and Church (2008), the paper investigates how 492 of the largest…
Descriptors: Norwegian, Language Variation, Written Language, Standards
Obiri-Yeboah, Monica Apenteng – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2019
This paper examines the linguistic repertoires and domains of language use of the members of Victory Baptist Church at Nkwantanang (a suburb of Kade), an Akan-speaking area in the Eastern Region of Ghana. Data for the study is from observations and transcribed recordings of Sunday services, youth and women fellowship meetings, as well as…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Churches, Religion, Foreign Countries
Amuzu, Evershed Kwasi; Nutakor, Yvonne Eyram; Amfo, Nana Aba Appiah – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2019
This paper aims at examining language socialisation practices of members of two groups of migrants of Nigerien origin living in Ghana, i.e. Tamasheque-speaking beggars in Accra and Hausa/Zambarima/Buzu-speaking hawkers at the Akuapem Ridge. We examine the migrants' language practices in various domains, such as work and home, interrogate whether…
Descriptors: Socialization, African Languages, Poverty, Language Usage
Badwan, Khawla – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2021
Post-modern approaches to language policy have emphasised the role of agency in implementing and appropriating language policies. While agency is often perceived in positive terms, Liddicoat [(2019). Constraints on agency in micro-language policy and planning in schools. In J. Bouchard & G. P. Glasgow (Eds.), "Agency in language policy…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Educational Policy, Language Usage, Stakeholders
Schornack, Miranda Lee; Karlsson, A. – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2021
Speakers of languages other than English are positioned as problems within education systems and 'low' academic English proficiency is viewed as something to be fixed. Alternative education programs are typically viewed as punitive, substandard, exclusionary academic settings. Therefore, speakers of languages other than English (ELs) enrolled in…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Nontraditional Education
Miranda, Norbella; Berdugo, Martha; Tejada, Harvey – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2016
The current internationalization trends in higher education and educational language policies impel universities to plan their provision of foreign languages. Often, universities are developing language policies, redesigning their foreign language programs and seeking to foster bilingual or multilingual strategies within graduate and undergraduate…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Educational Policy, Policy Formation, English (Second Language)
Mostari, Hind Amel – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2009
When Algeria opened its markets to foreign investment starting from the early 2000s, a technological boom occurred, including the expansion of mobile phone use. New technologies have had a considerable impact on the Algerian diglossic situation, in recent decades, and have contributed in the democratisation of the local dialects, which are being…
Descriptors: Foreign Policy, Semitic Languages, Language Planning, Foreign Countries

Lasimbang, Rita; Kinajil, Trixie – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2000
Examines the role the Kadazandusun language Foundation has played in changing the language ecology of the Kadazandusun language. Relates to the impact the language situation has had on changing attitudes toward mother-tongue use in the Kadazandusun community. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Dialects, Language Attitudes, Language Planning, Language Standardization
Tosi, Arturo – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2004
This monograph provides an overview of the language situation in Italy, within the framework of language policy and language planning. It presents an account of multilingualism, linguistic diversity, social variation, educational issues and phenomena of language contact both within and outside Italy. The four main threads are (1) the current…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Linguistic Borrowing, Dialects, Linguistics
Papapavlou, Andreas; Pavlou, Pavlos – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2005
The acquisition, fostering and further development of literacy in bilingual situations has been widely studied but similar issues in bidialectal settings where nonstandard and standard languages coexist have not attracted sufficient attention. This is the second of a series of studies investigating the use of nonstandard languages or dialects in…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Language Planning, Nonstandard Dialects, Elementary Education