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Exploring Family Language Policy and Planning among Ethnic Minority Families in Hong Kong: Through a Socio-Historical and Processed Lens
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Gu, Mingyue Michelle; Han, Yawen – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2021
This qualitative study investigates the process of family language policy and planning among a group of immigrant mothers with south Asian backgrounds in Hong Kong, and explores the underlying cultural, socio-political and ideological reasons. Moving beyond a discrete analysis of family language policy within the home context to incorporate…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Family Relationship, Educational Experience, Immigrants
Essential Components in Planning Multilingual Education: A Case Study of Cambodia's Multilingual Education National Action Plan
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Ball, Jessica; Smith, Mariam – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2023
Multilingual education (MLE) is increasingly recognized as a means to ensure equitable access to education for children with a nondominant first language and to retain endangered languages. UNESCO has championed MLE and identified 10 essential components in planning implementation of MLE implementation. This article examines these 10 components in…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Language of Instruction, Multilingualism, Foreign Countries
Language Proficiency Testing and the Expatriate Medical Practitioner in Malawi
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Kamwendo, Gregory H. – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2008
According to the Medical Council of Malawi, one of the conditions for a licence to be granted to an individual who wants to practise medicine in Malawi is the practitioner's ability to speak and write English fluently. This means that the expatriate medical practitioner is not required by law to demonstrate fluency in Chichewa (the national…
Descriptors: Health Services, Speech Communication, Hospitals, Official Languages
Assessing the Language Proficiency of Tribal Heritage Language Learners: Issues and Concerns for American Indian Pueblo Languages
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Sims, Christine – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2008
Among American Indian Pueblo tribes, community-based language revitalisation initiatives have been established in response to a growing language shift towards English. This has been most prominent among school age children, prompting some tribes to extend tribal language programmes into local public schools. For centuries, the transmission of…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, American Indians, Bilingual Education, Oral Language
Terminological Creation and Language Shift in Malaysia's Legal System
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Powell, Richard – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2004
Terminology is a central theme of debate about language shift in Malaysia's judicial system--sometimes seen as the last bastion of the colonial language. Advocates of more Malay in courtroom argument and professional practice often point to the Institute of Language and Literature's creation of thousands of terms to equip the national language for…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Vocabulary, Official Languages, Foreign Countries
Language Policy and Its Rationales
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Ozolins, Uldis – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2004
David Ingram's career has traversed several decades of shifting rationale for language policy in Australia. Government and institutional initiatives have at various times favoured traditional foreign language teaching, multicultural imperatives and language diversity, concern for Asian economically strategic languages, or a focus on literacy in…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Ideology, Foreign Countries, Public Policy