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Alkhateeb, Hadeel; Bouherar, Salim – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2023
This study examined whether institutions of higher education in the Arab world have adopted approaches that promote linguistic sustainability. Specifically, we used Q methodology to explore 30 graduates' perceptions of whether the educational language policies in force during their tertiary education positively impacted their wellbeing after…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Policy, Foreign Countries, Language Role
Wilson, George – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2023
This article compares the immersion-education systems in Brittany and Wales. The number of Welsh speakers is growing thanks to its well-developed immersion-education system. Brittany has a much less well-developed system and the number of Breton speakers is falling dramatically. Urgent action is needed if Breton is to survive. Using an approach…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, Welsh, Comparative Education, Foreign Countries
Thingnes, Jorunn Simonsen – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2020
Sámi University of Applied Sciences (SUAS) in Norway is one of few institutions of higher education worldwide that mainly operates in an Indigenous language. According to the institution's vision, Indigenous peoples' values stand at the centre, and the Sámi language is heard and read daily. However, as an academic institution operating nationally…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Indigenous Populations, Native Language, Languages
Skerrett, Delaney Michael – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2016
This study investigates "de facto" language policy in Estonia. It investigates how language choices at the micro (or individual) level are negotiated within the macro (or social and historical) context: how official language policy and other features of the discursive environment surrounding language and its use in Estonia translate into…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Foreign Countries, Language Usage, Social Environment
Al-Issa, Ali S. M. – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2020
This paper examines the language planning situation in the Sultanate of Oman with emphasis on the planning of Arabic, English, French and German, and their choice and spread in serving different interests and purposes. The paper explores the historical, social, political, and ideological processes and complexities of the language policy and…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Semitic Languages, English (Second Language), French
Hult, Francis M.; Källkvist, Marie – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2016
In this paper, the language policies of three Swedish universities are examined as instances of language planning in local contexts. Although Sweden has the national Language Act of 2009 (SFS 2009:600) as well as a general Higher Education Ordinance (SFS 1993:100; SFS 2014:1096), language planning for higher education is left to the purview of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Usage, Language Planning, Educational Policy
Sterzuk, Andrea; Fayant, Russell – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2016
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC) began in June, 2008 as a response to the Indian Residential School legacy. The commission concluded with a 2015 report which includes 94 calls to action. Some of these calls pertain to higher education including the following example "We call upon post-secondary institutions to create…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Language Maintenance, Higher Education, American Indians
Siiner, Maarja – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2016
Nation states increasingly assign the responsibility for meeting the global competitiveness agenda to the universities themselves [Cirius, 2009, "Mobilitetsstatistik for de videregaaende uddannelser 2007/08" [Mobility statistics for higher education 2007/08]]. In Denmark, universities that have introduced English as an instrument to…
Descriptors: Language Planning, International Education, Work Environment, Immigration
Valadez, Concepción; Etxeberria, Feli; Intxausti, Nahia – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2015
In the Basque Country, Northern Spain, Basque (Euskera) and Spanish are official languages. In recent decades, Basque language revitalization and the efforts to make this an unmarked language (normalization) have co-existed with the rapid increase in immigration from outside the Basque region, and most recently from outside Spain. Given the…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Languages, Foreign Countries, Immigrants