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Direct linkLiddicoat, Anthony J.; Taylor-Leech, Kerry – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2015
This paper overviews issues relating to the role of ideologies and attitudes in multilingual education (MLE). It argues that ideologies and attitudes are constituent parts of the language planning process and shape the possibilities for multilingualism in educational programmes in complex ways, but most frequently work to constrain the ways that…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Language Attitudes, Role, Language Planning
Liddicoat, Anthony J.; Taylor-Leech, Kerry – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2014
This paper overviews some of the domains of application of micro-level language planning approaches to foster multilingual education. It examines the language planning of local agents and the contexts in which their work contributes to multilingual education, either to expand or limit educational possibilities. It identifies four broad contexts of…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Multilingualism, Local Issues, Community Needs
Peer reviewedTaylor-Leech, Kerry – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2013
Timor-Leste offers a rich case study of the array of discursive influences on medium-of-instruction (MOI) policy in multilingual, post-colonial developing contexts. MOI policy in this young nation is a site of tension between struggles to define national identity in the shadow of colonial language ideologies and the globalised discourses of…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Ideology, Multilingualism, Language of Instruction
Taylor-Leech, Kerry; Liddicoat, Anthony J. – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2014
This overview identifies some common features of macro-level language planning and briefly summarises the changing approaches to the analysis of macro-planning in the field. It previews six cases of language-in-education planning in response to linguistic diversity presented by the contributors to this issue. The cases show how macro-planning can…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Multilingualism, Cultural Pluralism, Definitions
Taylor-Leech, Kerry – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2011
This article presents an overview of language-in-education policy development between 1999 and 2010 in the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste. In the decade since independence language-in-education policy in this newly independent country has been dominated by debates about the medium of instruction. Over time, policy has shifted from an…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Foreign Countries, Language of Instruction, Educational History
Taylor-Leech, Kerry – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2009
Timor-Leste celebrated its formal political independence on 20th May 2002. The National Constitution of the new nation declared the endogenous lingua franca (Tetum) and the former colonial language (Portuguese) to be co-official. The remaining local languages were given the status of national languages. Indonesian and English were designated as…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Language Planning, Linguistic Borrowing, Official Languages
