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Direct linkShirahata, Mai; Lahti, Malgorzata – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2023
Many universities in non-English speaking countries have been adopting English as a medium of instruction to internationalize their education. We set out to compare the language policies of a Finnish and a Japanese university using the lens of language ideology -- a set of normative beliefs about the social dimension of language. Data were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Language Planning, Educational Policy
Graham, Keith M.; Pan, W.-Y.; Eslami, Z. R. – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2021
Bilingual education is spreading throughout the world as an approach for teaching content and language simultaneously. This is particularly true in Taiwan where implementation of bilingual education has begun as directed by the Blueprint for Developing Taiwan into a Bilingual Nation by 2030. However, the spread of bilingual education is often…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Educational Policy, Monolingualism, Ideology
Chen, Xiuwen; Dervin, Fred; Tao, Jian; Zhao, Ke – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2020
Against the backdrop of the Belt and Road Initiative, the study reports on the ideological construction of multilingualism in higher education in mainland China. Through a new methodological approach combining intertextual discourse analysis and thematic analysis, this paper concentrates on the interplay of ideologies towards multilingualism…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Multilingualism, Administrator Attitudes, Foreign Countries
Manuel, Nicolau Nkiawete; Johnson, David Cassels – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2018
Portuguese is the mother tongue for many Angolans yet a majority continue to use African languages in everyday interactions and schools struggle to provide equal educational opportunities for students whose first language is not Portuguese. Recognizing this challenge, the Angolan government has created a language policy that will introduce six…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language of Instruction, Educational Policy, Educational Practices
Peer reviewedHilmarsson-Dunn, Amanda; Kristinsson, Ari Pall – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2010
Purist language policies in Iceland have preserved and modernized Icelandic up until the present time. However, the impact of globalization and global English has led to the perception that the language is less secure than in the past and has prompted efforts by policy makers towards greater protection of Icelandic. This monograph presents the…
Descriptors: Indo European Languages, Context Effect, Global Approach, Official Languages
Horner, Kristine; Weber, Jean Jacques – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2008
This monograph describes the overall language situation in Luxembourg, a highly multilingual country in Western Europe, from a language policy and planning perspective. The first part discusses the social and historical contexts, including major societal changes and uncertainties about the future, which are bound up with Europeanisation and the…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Multilingualism, Ideology, Identification
