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Kashif Raza; Catherine Chua – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Despite recognising multilingualism as a reality and multilingual workforce as an advantage, language policies continue to favour certain languages over others. Using a case study of Canada's language-in-immigration policy related to three federally administered immigration programs, this study is an attempt to understand how the macro-level…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immigrants, Immigration, Skilled Workers
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Paul J. Meighan – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Indigenous communities worldwide face threats to their linguistic and epistemic heritage with the unabated spread of dominant colonial languages and global monocultures, such as English and the neoliberal, imperialistic worldview. There is considerable strain on the relatively few Elders and speakers of Indigenous languages to maintain cultures…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Language Maintenance, Indigenous Populations, Indigenous Knowledge
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Conrick, Maeve; Donovan, Paula – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2010
The connections between immigration and language policy and planning in Quebec and Canada are long established. With the continuing upward trajectory in levels of immigration to Canada and Quebec the linguistic integration of these new arrivals remains an important topic. In recent years, Asia has overtaken Europe as the leading source of…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Official Languages, Immigration, Immigrants
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Cardinal, Linda – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2005
This paper discusses the political, or ideological, use of official languages (English and French) data in Canada. A more pragmatic use of official languages data would enable policy actors to better address the unequal relations between English and French. Specific suggestions are made in order to move the debate in that direction. (Contains 7…
Descriptors: Official Languages, Foreign Countries, French, Ideology
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Bourhis, Richard Y. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1983
Explores the impact of Quebec language planning in favor of French on self-reports of language use in cross-cultural encounters between Francophones and Anglophones in Montreal. Results indicate that discrepancies exist between respondents' self-reports of language use and their reported experience and that motivational and normative factors…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), English, Foreign Countries, French
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Lotherington, Heather – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1996
Considers the pedagogical validity of English immersion education in Vanuatu and the Solomon Islands, Melanesian countries of the South Pacific. Questions the appropriateness of implementing a policy of English language immersion education in a postcolonial, multilingual Third World context where support for first language maintenance and second…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, French
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Robinson, Clinton D. W. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1994
Compares efforts to support minority languages in the developed, industrialized countries of the north and the developing countries of the southern hemisphere. The article examines whether comparable principles are being applied to minority language planning, and if not, what the underlying reasons for the differences are. (33 references)…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis, Cultural Pluralism