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Kuchah Kuchah; Laela Adamson; Aline Dorimana; Aloysie Uwizeyemariya; Alphonse Uworwabayeho; Lizzi O. Milligan – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
This paper develops the notion of epistemic exclusion as a way of exploring the different types of silence and silencing that happen in English medium Rwandan classrooms. By focusing on classroom observations of teachers' pedagogic practices and the ways in which girls interact in the classrooms, we demonstrate how experiences of epistemic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language of Instruction, English, Teaching Methods
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Tibor Toró – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
In Romania most Hungarian-speaking children study in their mother tongue, in Hungarian-language classes. Some of these are organised in 'mixed schools', where parallel Hungarian and Romanian classes coexist in the same institution. Although these institutions seem a good solution for inter-ethnic coexistence, no systematic research has been…
Descriptors: Hungarian, Romance Languages, Native Language, Language of Instruction
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Siiner, Maarja – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2014
The present article contributes to attempts to re-conceptualise the top-down perspective on language policy, by analysing the role of local and city governments' agency in language education policy making. Only few studies analyse the role of lower administrative levels in language policy, other than in implementation of governmental policies, why…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Local Government, City Government
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Kirkpatrick, Andy – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2012
The Charter of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) was officially adopted in February 2009. Article 34 of the Charter states that, "The working language of ASEAN shall be English". In this article, I first briefly trace the development of English in ASEAN and demonstrate that, even in those countries of the ASEAN group…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Multilingualism, Official Languages
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Feng, Anwei – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2012
Greater China is used in this article to refer to mainland China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan and Macao. While a holistic approach is adopted to present and compare the rapid spread of English and development in English language education in these geographically close, and sociopolitically, culturally and economically interrelated but hugely…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Holistic Approach, Language Variation, English (Second Language)
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Igboanusi, Herbert; Putz, Martin – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2008
In a surprise announcement in December 1996 in a speech at the Nigerian Institute for International Affairs, the late Nigerian Head of State, General Sani Abacha said "Nigeria is resolutely launching a programme of national language training that will in a short order, permit our country to become thoroughly bilingual". General Abacha's…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Official Languages, Foreign Countries, French