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Elen Bonner; Cynog Prys; Rhian Hodges; Siwan Mitchelmore – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2024
This paper seeks to explain the migration decisions of minority language speakers by investigating motivating factors. Viewed through a language planning lens, the study pushes the parameters of some of the discipline's more recent agency concepts within the context of migration. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 60 Welsh speakers…
Descriptors: Welsh, Language Planning, Language Minorities, Decision Making
Amuzu, Evershed Kwasi; Nutakor, Yvonne Eyram; Amfo, Nana Aba Appiah – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2019
This paper aims at examining language socialisation practices of members of two groups of migrants of Nigerien origin living in Ghana, i.e. Tamasheque-speaking beggars in Accra and Hausa/Zambarima/Buzu-speaking hawkers at the Akuapem Ridge. We examine the migrants' language practices in various domains, such as work and home, interrogate whether…
Descriptors: Socialization, African Languages, Poverty, Language Usage
Erling, Elizabeth J. – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2017
The increased status of English as the language of international communication and business has meant that development aid has increasingly been used to finance language planning initiatives aimed at improving and/or expanding English language education. The intended outcome of this aid is often to provide expanded economic returns and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Planning, Language Usage