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Mazlum, Farhad – Language Policy, 2022
Choosing which additional language to include in national curricula and when to begin teaching it are important educational policy decisions. The current study aims to provide a contextually embedded picture of such policymaking process in the Iranian context. More specifically, the study is intended to explain the agency mechanism of different…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Role, Language Planning
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Manan, Syed Abdul; David, Maya Khemlani – Language Learning Journal, 2021
This study examines the discourses of educators in Pakistan through the lens of Critical Multilingual Language Awareness (CMLA) to demonstrate how their lack of critical awareness reinforces and reproduces subtractive language policies and practices in a diverse multilingual setting. CMLA stands for the understanding of the social, political and…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Folk Culture, Multilingualism, Discourse Analysis
Yevudey, Elvis; Agbozo, G. Edzordzi – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2019
This paper explores, at the micro level, the sociolinguistic backgrounds of teacher trainees in a College of Education in Accra and their perceptions toward Ghana's current language-in-education policy. It aims at finding how these micro-level sociolinguistic insights could provide suggestions for language-in-education policies at the macro level.…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Language of Instruction, Educational Policy, Teacher Education Programs
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Pervin, Nasrin; Siraj, Nausheen Saba – Journal of Education, 2020
Social dynamics of a developing country undergo constant changes because of the demand of economic growth and people's cater for social mobility. English has become important in all economic activities globally. Bangladesh was a British colony for almost 200 years. The legacy of English education still continues and it has not formulated any…
Descriptors: Social Influences, Language Planning, Public Policy, Foreign Countries
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Khalid, Aamna – SAGE Open, 2016
In Pakistan where different languages co-exist, and where English has a high status as a second language (L2), the learners' attitudes toward English plays an important role in formulating effective language policies. It is essential that these policies reflect these attitudes and are in sync with the learners' orientations toward learning…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Thapa, Chura Bahadur; Adamson, Bob – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2018
Educational issues in relation to ethnicity and language education policies have been underexplored in Asian contexts. In particular, issues related to ethnic and linguistic minority students have not received much attention in the post-colonial context of Hong Kong. This paper highlights challenges and tensions faced by Nepali ethnic minority…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Planning, Ethnicity, Educational Policy
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Kim, Jeongyeon; Choi, Jinsook; Tatar, Bradley – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2017
This case study examined the reactions of local students to the diversity in student population. Specifically, it investigated how the local students' intercultural sensitivity to the international students is interrelated with their perception of the English-medium instruction (EMI) policy. The quantitative and qualitative analyses of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language of Instruction, English (Second Language), Official Languages
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Kouega, Jean-Paul – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2016
This paper deals with language practices in one Pentecostal church in Cameroon, i.e. the Full Gospel Mission Cameroon (FGMC). The data are produced by some 80 pastors, church officials, choir leaders and congregants, and the settings are some 20 churches located in two anglophone regions and two francophone regions of Cameroon. The instruments…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Churches, Religious Cultural Groups, Foreign Countries
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Babino, Alexandra; Stewart, Mary Amanda – Bilingual Research Journal, 2018
Dual language (DL) programs experience many tensions stemming from English hegemony in its curriculum, instruction, and assessment. These tensions often work in concert to usurp the three goals of DL programs to develop bilingualism, biliteracy, and bicultural competence while achieving grade level standards for its students. Subsequently, there…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Bilingualism
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Skerrett, Delaney Michael – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2014
This paper seeks to situate Estonian language use and policy within the emerging field of critical language policy and planning (CLPP) by investigating the discourses that frame linguistic behaviour. This done by way of an analysis of a series of interviews carried out with key actors in language policy in Estonia. The discourses framing language…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Educational Change, High Schools
Choi, Tae-Hee – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2015
In recent years, Asian countries including South Korea have been trying to redefine the role of English in response to globalisation. The impact of this on English language teaching and on Korean society more generally has been well documented; however, the impact of this change on individual teachers and their teaching calls for further…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Language of Instruction, Language Planning
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Ouazizi, Khalid – Latin American Journal of Content and Language Integrated Learning, 2016
This paper investigates the effects of Content and Language Integrated Learning, CLIL for short, on both the attainment of the subject matter, mathematics in our case, hence the content aspect of CLIL. The second axes of research focuses on the effect of CLIL on the learners' proficiency vis-à-vis the language of instruction, epitomized here by…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language of Instruction, English (Second Language), Mathematics Tests