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Hamza R'boul – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2025
This paper discusses how the political interplay between English-in-society and English-in-education policy in the Global South(s) facilitates what I term 'English as a subtle technology of policy distraction' in postcolonial spheres that were colonised by languages other than English. 'English as a subtle technology of policy distraction' is…
Descriptors: Postcolonialism, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Role

Salhi, Kamal – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2002
Argues that the question of the presence of French in former French colonies is not controversial. A study of French in the Francophone world is set in the context of the precoccupations that Francophones themselves have about the importance of the own languages--other than French--that can be defined in their relationship to France only from a…
Descriptors: Colonialism, Foreign Countries, French, Indigenous Populations

Daoud, Mohamed – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2001
Describes the current language situation in Tunisia while maintaining a historical perspective that is helpful in understanding how language-related changes have come about, and a prospective view that may illuminate future developments. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Arabic, Bilingualism, Colonialism, Diachronic Linguistics