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Sarah Hopkyns; Sender Dovchin; Shaila Sultana – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2025
English-medium instruction (EMI) is on the rise around the world due to globalization, internationalization and neoliberal ideologies which equate English with social capital, prestige, and success in the labour market. While many EMI policies aim to equip students with English as a 'lingua academia', produce 'neoliberal subjects' and compete in…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Language Attitudes, Language of Instruction, English (Second Language)
Vennela, R.; Kandharaja, K. M. C. – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2021
This study investigates language attitudes expressed by public university students in India at various layers of agentive "positionality" as an integral part of their dynamic language ecologies. This is achieved through the qualitative analysis of three focus group interviews conducted at three public universities in India with the…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Student Attitudes, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Lin, Christina Mien-Chun; Gerner de Garcia, Barbara; Chen-Pichler, Deborah – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2009
There are over 100 languages in China, including Chinese Sign Language. Given the large population and geographical dispersion of the country's deaf community, sign variation is to be expected. Language barriers due to lexical variation may exist for deaf college students in China, who often live outside their home regions. In presenting an…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Deafness, Foreign Countries, Language Planning