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Huang, Karen – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2023
Indigenous languages in Taiwan are experiencing various degrees of language endangerment. Reversing language shift, however, faces difficulties due to the minority status of the languages. This study identifies two Indigenous singer-songwriters who released popular music sung in their endangered Indigenous languages as micro-level language…
Descriptors: Music, Language Maintenance, Indigenous Populations, Language Skill Attrition
Liu, Yuying – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2022
Despite the increasing popularity of Chinese and the recognition of the growing commodifying ideology of Chinese language in many contexts [Liu, Y., & Gao, X. (2020). Commodification of the Chinese language: Investigating language ideology in the Irish media. "Current Issues in Language Planning," 21(5), 512-531.…
Descriptors: Commercialization, Community Schools, Language Attitudes, Immigrants
Soler, Josep; Vihman, Virve-Anneli – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2018
In recent years, interest in the study of language policy issues in the context of universities has grown considerably. One reason for this is the coexistence of two apparently contradictory discourses, centering around nationalising and globalising orientations. Universities are seen by many as the key institutions for safeguarding the…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Language Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Language Maintenance
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
Smith-Christmas, Cassie; Armstrong, Timothy Currie – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2014
Heritage learners of minority languages can play a lynchpin role in reversing language shift (RLS) in their families; however, in order to enact this role, they must first overcome certain barriers to re-integrate the minority language into the home domain. Using a combination of conversation and narrative analysis methods, we demonstrate how both…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Language Skill Attrition, Indo European Languages, Language Minorities
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Hadjioannou, Xenia; Tsiplakou, Stavroula; Kappler, Matthias – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2011
The aim of this monograph is to provide a detailed account of language policy and language planning in Cyprus. Using both historical and synchronic data and adopting a mixed-methods approach (archival research, ethnographic tools and insights from sociolinguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis), this study attempts to trace the origins and the…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Language Planning, Nationalism, National Standards