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Romanov, Artemi – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2000
Focuses on the language situation in the Russian diaspora in Latvia and Estonia and analyzes these factors that are critical in determining language outcomes for a language community within one country that speaks a majority language of another. Examines the possibility of three outcomes: language maintenance, bilingualism, and language shift in a…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Foreign Countries, Language Maintenance, Language Planning
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Atkinson, David – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2000
Suggests that language planning and policies that seek to protect the interests of linguistic minorities must be based on a realistic analysis of power relations that exist between the groups concerned. Argues that such an assessment is complex and exemplifies some of the difficulties involved through reference to the situation in Catalonia,…
Descriptors: Ethnolinguistics, Foreign Countries, Language Minorities, Language Planning
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Jernudd, Bjorn H. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1991
A social science approach to language planning is contrasted with a language management approach to language planning. It is suggested that students of language planning need to go beyond discourse management and the social sciences if the task is to explain that language is the fundamental institution of society because to plan language is to…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Language Planning, Social Change
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Dodson, C. J. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1985
Presents a theory that all developing and developed bilinguals have a preferred and a second language (L2) and that the bilingual increases L2 competence through fluctuating activity between bilingual preferred L2 medium-oriented communication and monolingual L2 message-oriented communication. Discusses implications of the theory for language…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Immersion Programs, Language Acquisition
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Fishman, Joshua A. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1994
Examines neo-Marxist and poststructural critiques of classical language planning (lp) for relevance to lp on behalf of minority languages. Criticisms suggest lp is conducted by elites governed by self-interest, reproduces rather than overcomes sociocultural and econotechnical inequalities, inhibits multiculturalism, espouses worldwide…
Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, Elitism, Ethnography, Language Attitudes
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Alladina, Safder – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1985
Using Hindi and Urdu as examples, illustrates the shortcomings in the definition of South Asian languages that has been attempted in Britain so far. Argues that description and definition of a language have to include aspects of culture, religion, script, politics, and the speakers' own perception of their language and language choice. (SED)
Descriptors: Cultural Background, Culture, Hindi, Language Maintenance
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Edwards, John – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1994
Discusses tensions resulting from dichotomies existing between "smaller" languages and those of wider communications. It is suggested that there are four recurring approaches for dealing with this tension: communicative language shift, defense of the more threatened variety, "localization" of the stronger language (for example,…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Change Agents, English, Foreign Countries
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Oladejo, J. A. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1993
Necessary facilities for a successful implementation of bilingual education policy in a country like Nigeria are discussed. It is argued that the policy adopted there was too ambitious and unrealistic and that certain fundamental issues were ignored. Difficulties may lead to a total demise of the policy. (Contains 18 references.) (Author/LB)
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Cultural Context, Developing Nations, Educational Policy
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Edwards, D. Gareth – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1984
Examines the effect in the primary and secondary school levels of teaching through the medium of Welsh and the response of the University of Wales. The media and the educational system are two formal social organizations which help the threatened Welsh language to survive. Another would be the establishment of a Welsh-medium university. (SED)
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Language Maintenance
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Gonzales, Andrew – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1993
The components of language rights for social development are enumerated and discussed, listed under such rubrics as national language development, languages of instruction, access to a Language of Wider Communication, bilingual schooling, and the cultivation of the national languages. Examples from various countries are cited. (Contains 26…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Bilingual Education, Language of Instruction, Language Planning
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Hoffmann, Charlotte – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2000
Focuses on issues raised in the late 1990's by the debate about the second major piece of language legislation in Catalonia. Catalonia is a region where devolution and language policies in favor of regional language may have reached limits that are not so much imposed by the national state as by demographic developments within Catalonia itself and…
Descriptors: Civil Liberties, Demography, Foreign Countries, Language Minorities
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Nelde, Peter – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2000
Suggests that in light of the state of many of the minority languages within the European Union, there are numerous policy imperatives and implications that needs to be addressed in relation to further development of European language policy. Outlines briefly what these might involve by highlighting key principles and discussing these from a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Minorities, Language Planning, Policy Formation
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Baldauf, Richard B., Jr. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1993
Queensland, Australia, is embarking on a massive limited bilingual second-language learning program for all students in the first eight years of school. Potential implementation problems and implications for the wider society are discussed, including the effect of the emphasis on studying Asian languages. (Contains 40 references.) (Author/LB)
Descriptors: Austro Asiatic Languages, Bilingualism, Cultural Context, Educational Policy
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Jernudd, Bjorn H. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1993
Two sociocultural value clusters that predict an English-as-a-Second-language and an English-as-a-Foreign-Language approach are juxtaposed, respectively, to English language acquisition management. The two approaches are described in educational terms and related to the changing functions of English in the world and to national language…
Descriptors: Cultural Context, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Language Acquisition
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Bodi, Marianne – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1994
Discusses the effects of new national economic priorities in Australia and of that country's desire for closer trade and cultural ties in the area on European minority languages and Asian "priority" languages. The article argues that equity and mobility for those with a less preferred language background are best achieved via English…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Cultural Context, Cultural Pluralism, Economic Factors
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