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Miranda, Norbella; Berdugo, Martha; Tejada, Harvey – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2016
The current internationalization trends in higher education and educational language policies impel universities to plan their provision of foreign languages. Often, universities are developing language policies, redesigning their foreign language programs and seeking to foster bilingual or multilingual strategies within graduate and undergraduate…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Educational Policy, Policy Formation, English (Second Language)
Napier, Jemina; Major, George; Ferrara, Lindsay; Johnston, Trevor – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2015
This paper reviews a sign language planning project conducted in Australia with deaf Auslan users. The Medical Signbank project utilised a cooperative language planning process to engage with the Deaf community and sign language interpreters to develop an online interactive resource of health-related signs, in order to address a gap in the health…
Descriptors: Models, Sign Language, Language Planning, Deafness
Sterzuk, Andrea; Fayant, Russell – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2016
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC) began in June, 2008 as a response to the Indian Residential School legacy. The commission concluded with a 2015 report which includes 94 calls to action. Some of these calls pertain to higher education including the following example "We call upon post-secondary institutions to create…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Language Maintenance, Higher Education, American Indians
Fenton-Smith, Ben; Gurney, Laura – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2016
Nearly two decades have passed since Kaplan and Baldauf [1997. "Language planning from practice to theory." Clevedon: Multilingual Matters] drew attention to the dearth of language policy and planning (LPP) in higher education. Despite the continuing inflow of English as an additional language students into Anglophone universities, and a…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Academic Discourse, Educational Policy, Higher Education
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
Lin, Man-Chiu Amay; Yudaw, Bowtung – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2013
This article suggests a theoretical framework for re-examining the complex relationship of language, literacy, and cultural practices, across multiple generations in the context of community-based Indigenous language revitalization. In the scholarship of Indigenous language revitalization and education, researchers have shifted from viewing…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Language Maintenance, Language Planning, Native Language
Baldauf, Richard B., Jr.; Kaplan, Robert B.; Kamwangamalu, Nkonko; Bryant, Pauline – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2011
Primary school second/foreign language (SL/FL) programmes in Asia, as well as in other parts of the world, are becoming more common, with many targeting English as the SL or FL. The pressures for such English language programmes come from top-down notions that in a globalised world English is required for societies to be competitive, especially…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)