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Direct linkPeiru Bai; Andrea Susan Young – Language Policy, 2025
This paper explores family multilingualism through the lens of language ideologies upheld by parents within three Chinese transnational families living in Luxembourg. Following a linguistic ethnographic approach throughout the inquiry and analysis process, this study provides illuminating insights into the Chinese parents' language ideologies…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Second Language Learning, Native Language, Language Attitudes
Takam, Alain Flaubert; Fassé, Innocent Mbouya – Language Policy, 2020
Cameroon, host to around 280 local languages, two European official languages (English and French) and Pidgin English, has been struggling since the 1960s to achieve official bilingualism for national unity and integration. This policy implies that each citizen should learn and use both official languages. The greatest means to implement this…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Meeuwis, Michael – Language Policy, 2015
When in 1908 the Belgian government took over the Congo from King Leopold II, a charter was drafted that would serve as a constitution-like statutory code for the new colony. Article 3 in this "Colonial Charter" dealt with language and linguistic rights. It epitomized the duality of language questions with which Belgium remained faced…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Foreign Countries, Foreign Policy, Civil Rights
Gafaranga, Joseph; Niyomugabo, Cyprien; Uwizeyimana, Valentin – Language Policy, 2013
An invitation to integrate macro and micro level analyses has been extended to researchers as this integration is felt to be the way forward for language policy research (Ricento, Ideology, politics and language policies: Focus on english, John Benjamins, Amsterdam, 2000). In turn, the notion of 'micro' in language policy has been specified as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Planning, African Languages, Case Studies
Seloni, Lisya; Sarfati, Yusuf – Language Policy, 2013
This article explores the diminished use of Judeo-Spanish among Jews living in Turkey and asks the following research question: What factors, ideologies, and practices contribute to the demise of Judeo-Spanish? To address this question, we employed life history inquiry based on two oral history archives documenting elderly Turkish-Jewish community…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Foreign Countries, Language Acquisition, Ideology
Samuelson, Beth Lewis; Freedman, Sarah Warshauer – Language Policy, 2010
The evolution of Rwanda's language policies since 1996 has played and continues to play a critical role in social reconstruction following war and genocide. Rwanda's new English language policy aims to drop French and install English as the only language of instruction. The policy-makers frame the change as a major factor in the success of social…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Language Planning, Official Languages, Language of Instruction
