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Yanhong Liu; Stephen May; Lawrence Jun Zhang – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
China has had an ambivalent policy for the learning and teaching of English as a foreign language (EFL) over much of its history. The explicit and implicit implementation of language policy has had a significant impact on the content of EFL textbooks and the ideologies underlying them. However, studies exploring such ideologies remain sensitive…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Textbooks, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Soler-Carbonell, Josep; Saarinen, Taina; Kibbermann, Kerttu – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2017
This article analyses language policies in higher education (HE) in Finland, Estonia, and Latvia, as well as the European Union (EU). We take a multilayered approach to language policies in order to illuminate the intertwined nature of local, national, and international language policies in HE. We are particularly interested in the construction of…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Multilingualism, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
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Kowalski, Ewa – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2008
With its recent entry into the European Union (EU) and the adoption of multiethnic democracy as a national policy, a key challenge for Poland is to transform its education policy and practice in ways that are consistent with multicultural and pluralist values. This paper examines Poland's efforts to address these issues by exploring changes in the…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, International Schools, Textbooks, Democracy
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Saric, Ljiljana – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2004
This paper provides an analysis of texts containing the noun "the Balkans" and the adjective "Balkan" in a small corpus of approximately 80 journalistic texts from different south Slavic regions currently available online. The texts were published over the last 10 years. The term "the Balkans" and its derivations…
Descriptors: Cultural Background, Foreign Countries, Nouns, Discourse Analysis