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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
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Schreyer, Christine – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2011
The languages of Klingon and Na'vi, both created for media, are also languages that have garnered much media attention throughout the course of their existence. Speakers of these languages also utilize social media and information technologies, specifically websites, in order to learn the languages and then put them into practice. While teaching a…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Language Planning, Creoles, Information Technology
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Ferguson, Jenanne – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2010
This paper investigates how the processes of language transmission among speakers of Southern Tutchone ("dan k'e"), an indigenous Athapaskan language of the southern Yukon Territory, Canada, bear out an emerging theoretical interest in how bottom-up communicative practices shape language policy. An examination of "dan k'e"…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Language Planning, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries
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Schreyer, Christine – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2008
This article examines the parallel development of language planning and land planning within the Loon River Cree First Nation. Loon River Cree territory, located in north-central Alberta, Canada, is an area where major oil and gas industry, as well as logging and mining are constantly encroaching. The community, who still use Cree in their daily…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Fuels, Industry, Forestry
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Tulloch, Shelley – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2006
Language planning research and practice have largely ignored, or considered problematic, the diversity within endangered languages. Such a stance, though, conflicts with speakers' attitudes and desires, which often place high value on specific dialects. As grassroots, bottom-up approaches move to the forefront, so do concerns about the maintenance…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Language Planning, Dialects, Indigenous Populations
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Ager, Dennis – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2005
The aim of this paper is to clarify some notions about image and prestige planning. Starting from the Welsh example of language policy aiming to revitalise a language in danger of further decreasing in number of speakers and in centrality to Welsh life, definitions of four related terms are explored: image, status, prestige and identity. Paired…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Reputation, Language Role, Public Policy