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Direct linkWeiqi Yu; Wen Xu – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2024
This paper provides a bottom-up way of approaching China's macro-level initiative in the regions of Asia and examines the language ideologies and linguistic entrepreneurship of international students as an agentive response to China's rise. Using data gathered via semi-structured interviews, we present the narratives of 26 Asian international…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, Asians, Chinese
Fan Fang; Xinxin Yao – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2025
Amidst the rapid processes of industrialization and globalization, the interplay between minority and majority languages has garnered increasing attention, highlighting concerns surrounding linguistic diversity and the efficacious enactment of language policies. This study delves into the intricacies of language planning within the familial…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Family Relationship, Native Language, Second Language Learning
Yawen Han; Dan Li; Juan Dong – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2025
Informed by the theoretical concepts of 'practiced' language policy and space, the study investigates the language practices of English-medium Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) programs for international students, focusing on the interactional norms of language choice in a Chinese hospital where international students are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Planning, Language Role, English (Second Language)
Wei, Chang; Gu, Mingyue Michelle; Jiang, Lianjiang – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2022
Drawing on semi-structured interviews with six Chinese migrant families with children aged 12-15 years old, this qualitative study uses a Bourdieusian lens to probe how the historically lived and migration experiences of Chinese internal migrant parents construct their paradoxical beliefs in children's English learning and informs their family…
Descriptors: Family Relationship, Language Usage, Native Language, Second Language Learning
Gu, Mingyue Michelle; Han, Yawen – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2021
This qualitative study investigates the process of family language policy and planning among a group of immigrant mothers with south Asian backgrounds in Hong Kong, and explores the underlying cultural, socio-political and ideological reasons. Moving beyond a discrete analysis of family language policy within the home context to incorporate…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Family Relationship, Educational Experience, Immigrants
Peer reviewedPremaratne, Dilhara D. – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2009
Information and communication technology appears to have had a profound impact on language use in Japan. An important issue arising from this is said to be the increase in the use of Chinese characters (kanji) outside the official standard. This development has made a re-appraisal of the existing script policy necessary in order to accommodate the…
Descriptors: Romanization, Foreign Countries, Chinese, Information Technology
Mangubhai, Francis; Mugler, France – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2003
After Papua New Guinea (PNG), Fiji is the second largest island nation in the South-west Pacific and the hub of the region. Nearly all Fiji Islanders have either Fijian or Fiji Hindi as their first language, in roughly equal numbers, while the former colonial language, English, with very few native speakers, has retained an important role,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Native Speakers, English (Second Language), Language Role
