Publication Date
In 2025 | 0 |
Since 2024 | 0 |
Since 2021 (last 5 years) | 3 |
Since 2016 (last 10 years) | 5 |
Since 2006 (last 20 years) | 10 |
Descriptor
Source
Current Issues in Language… | 10 |
Author
Publication Type
Journal Articles | 10 |
Reports - Research | 6 |
Reports - Evaluative | 4 |
Education Level
Early Childhood Education | 1 |
Elementary Education | 1 |
Elementary Secondary Education | 1 |
Kindergarten | 1 |
Preschool Education | 1 |
Primary Education | 1 |
Audience
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
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
Duff, Patricia A. – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2021
This commentary foregrounds factors and tensions involved in intergenerational language socialization in Chinese-speaking communities and homes. Of particular interest is the manner in which younger generations in homes in which other Chinese dialects ("fangyans") are spoken almost invariably seem to be shifting to Mandarin, and some of…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Informal Education, Dialects, Social Integration
Weekly, Robert – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2020
In this paper, I draw on interview data with multilingual British South-Asian English language teachers to examine their language attitudes and beliefs about the responsibility for heritage language maintenance in the UK. While all the participants feel that it is important for heritage languages to be maintained, differences emerged with respect…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Maintenance, Heritage Education, Teacher Attitudes
Mirvahedi, Seyed Hadi – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2019
Language planning and policy has evolved from considering policy as one of states' affairs at its early stages to how policy actors exercise their agency to appropriate and enact policy in micro and local contexts. Ethnography of language policy is predominantly used today to explore why policies are enacted in a certain way and not otherwise,…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Policy Analysis, Ethnography, Social Theories
Poudel, Prem Prasad; Choi, Tae-Hee – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2022
Language policy and planning in Nepal has been contested due to the co-existence of multiple contradictory discourses concerning teaching and learning of local, national, foreign, and international languages. Recently a multilingual policy was issued to create space for the once-banned ethnic/indigenous languages in public schooling, further…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Educational Policy
Albury, Nathan John – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2015
Since the second half of the twentieth century, post-colonial governments have commonly sought to revitalize the indigenous languages their imperialist predecessors hoped to eradicate. Although the impetus to revitalize is shared, the question of excluding or including the non-indigenous majority in the revitalization process, and encouraging them…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Language Planning, Language Maintenance, Public Policy
Bastardas-Boada, Albert – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2013
One of the dangers that we should be aware of when we study issues of language policy and planning is the fragmentary perspective by which they can be approached. Reality, by contrast, is interrelated and overlapping. This is why a complexity perspective stresses the importance of studying the contexts of phenomena, that is to say, their external…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Public Policy, Interdisciplinary Approach, Sociolinguistics
Makoni, Sinfree – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2011
Although a voluminous amount of literature addresses language-in-education policy in Africa, one area in which the literature remains sparse is the role of minority languages in education. This article presents an overview of complex issues regarding the hegemony claims of different minority language groups in Zimbabwe. Given the relatively small…
Descriptors: Language of Instruction, Language Minorities, African Languages, Language Planning
Kouega, Jean-Paul – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2007
This monograph examines the language situation in Cameroon, a Central African country where fewer than 20 million people speak close to 250 languages. Specifically, the monograph addresses the issues of language use and spread, language policy and planning, and language maintenance and prospects. The study is divided into five parts. The…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Language Planning, Foreign Countries, Multilingualism
Filipovic, Jelena; Vuco, Julijana; Djuric, Ljiljana – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2007
In this paper a comparative analysis of the status of four types of languages present in the Serbian compulsory education system is presented: (1) Serbian as L1; (2) Serbian as L2 (for ethnic minorities); (3) minority languages; as well as (4) traditionally designated "foreign languages", such as English, French, Russian and German,…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Compulsory Education, Multilingualism, Foreign Countries