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István Jánk; Szilvia Rási – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2025
This study primarily focuses on the situation of Hungarians in minority situations in relation to language varieties, i.e. it interprets the various language policy issues primarily in the context of the Hungarian-speaking community, rather than in the context of Hungary, where the place, role and relationship between standard and non-standard…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Minorities, Native Language, Hungarian
Schneider, Cindy – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2015
In the early 1990s, the government of Papua New Guinea (PNG) enacted educational reform. It officially abandoned its English-only policy at elementary school level, in favour of community languages. In response, the Kairak community of East New Britain Province developed a vernacular literacy programme. This paper, based on original fieldwork…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Native Language
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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
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Poon, Anita Y. K. – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2010
This monograph provides an overview of the language situation in Hong Kong from a historical perspective. Hong Kong has evolved in the past 167 years from a small fishing port to an international financial centre which forms part of a financial network hailed by "Time Magazine" as Ny.Lon.Kong (i.e. New York-London-Hong Kong). Hong Kong…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Language Planning, Foreign Countries, Mandarin Chinese