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Kasai, Haruna – Comparative Education, 2022
Since 2019, Taiwan has implemented native language education for 'new immigrants' from Southeast Asian countries. This paper argues that the new educational provisions reflect the Taiwanese government's desire to appropriate new immigrants' cultures and languages to promote a multicultural vision of Taiwanese identity. It analyses the 12-year…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Native Language Instruction, Asians, Cultural Awareness
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Cok, Lucija; Pertot, Susanna – Comparative Education, 2010
The paper focuses on education language policy in Slovene Istria and of Slovenia in Italy. On both sides of the Slovene-Italian border there is an ethnically mixed population of Italians and Slovenes, an Italian minority in Slovenia, and a Slovene minority in Italy. On both sides of the border apparently similar systems of bilingual education have…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Bilingual Education, Language of Instruction, Knowledge Level
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Ferrer, Ferran – Comparative Education, 2000
Examines Catalan's remarkable revival in Catalonia (Spain) in the past 20 years. Discusses the 1978 referendum designating "autonomous communities," their languages having co-official status with Spanish; increases in Catalan usage in many sectors and among the young; Catalan usage in education; and challenges related to bilingual…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Language Maintenance