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L1 Marginalisation in Japan: Monolingual Instrumentalism and the Discursive Shift against "Yakudoku" in the Japanese Government's "Course of Study"
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Noda, Mamiko; O'Regan, John P. – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2020
This article focuses upon the Japanese government's decision in 2009 to direct an 'English-only' strategy for English language education in senior high schools from 2013. In the "Course of Study 2009," and more recently again in the "Course of Study 2018," the Japanese government implicitly blames the local grammar-translation…
Descriptors: Native Language, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
The 2011 Estonian High School Language Reform in the Context of Critical Language Policy and Planning
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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