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Marie Jacobs – Language Policy, 2024
It seems impossible to explain language choice and practice in the multilingual, understudied context of an asylum law firm by simply referring to official policy texts and linguistic (human) rights. Based on linguistic-ethnographic data (in the form of participant observations, recordings and interviews conducted in the Belgian context), this…
Descriptors: Policy, Language Usage, Lawyers, Refugees
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Ily Hollebeke – Language Policy, 2024
The dynamic nature of multilingual families and their language policies has been touched upon by numerous studies. Adding to the field, the present study assesses the stability of family language policy in a standardised and quantitative manner. To this end, a linguistically heterogenous sample consisting of 488 multilingual families raising young…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Family Attitudes, Language Attitudes, Beliefs
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Sin-Yi Chang – Language Policy, 2025
The Bilingual 2030 policy in Taiwan has attracted both support and criticism since it was introduced in 2018. Those who embrace the policy consider it an opportunity for Taiwan to become more globally connected, while those who are skeptical question whether the policy could actually lead Taiwan to a better place in the longer run--not just…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Bilingualism, Multilingualism, Public Opinion
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Peiru 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
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María Cioè-Peña; Rebecca E. Linares; Sara E. N. Kangas – Language Policy, 2025
While language education programs were created with an equity stance in mind--with the goals of increasing access and facilitating academic success for ethnically and linguistically marginalized students--the larger educational context has compromised access for multiply marginalized students. Recognizing a need for more complex understandings of…
Descriptors: Power Structure, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Multilingualism
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Nelson, Dana K.; Herrera Ruano, Jesahe; Parra Gutiérrez, Rodrigo; Zepeda Huerta, Jesús H. K. – Language Policy, 2023
Research into Family Language Policy (FLP) focuses on language planning by and among family members within home spaces. In this study we gather data from multilingual young adults with different backgrounds across Mexico through an online questionnaire. We use a trajectory approach to look at how FLP changes over time and space from the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Adults, Multilingualism, Language Usage
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Easlick, Kathleen – Language Policy, 2023
This paper examines the role of language policy and needs assessments in the provision of public services to regional minority and immigrant language speakers in the UK and Finland. Semi-structured interviews with service providers in Helsinki, Rovaniemi, Manchester, and Cardiff revealed how language policy and language needs are conceptualised…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Public Policy, Foreign Countries, Needs Assessment
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Curdt-Christiansen, Xiao Lan; Wei, Li; Hua, Zhu – Language Policy, 2023
In this study, we examine how mobility and on-going changes in sociocultural contexts impact family language policy (FLP) in the UK. Using a questionnaire and involving 470 transnational families across the UK, our study provides a descriptive analysis of different family language practices in England and establishes how attitudes influence the…
Descriptors: Family Environment, Language Usage, Language Planning, Native Language
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Bernard M. Barruga – Language Policy, 2025
This study aimed to explore the implementation of the Mother Tongue-Based Multilingual Education (MTB-MLE) policy by public elementary teachers in the Philippines through a case study approach. Specifically, the study sought to examine how three elementary teachers in one public school institution distinctively implement the MTB-MLE policy in…
Descriptors: Public School Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Nonstandard Dialects, Native Language Instruction
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Phan, Nhan; Starks, Donna – Language Policy, 2020
This paper explores the interaction between linguistic landscapes and language policies of the Old Quarter in Hanoi, Vietnam to investigate how legislated and de facto language policies come together to create lived monolingualism, multilingualism and hybridity in language displays in public spaces. Our research focuses on language policies as…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Monolingualism, Multilingualism, Public Policy
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Hawkey, James; Horner, Kristine – Language Policy, 2022
This article examines "de jure" language officialization policies in Andorra and Luxembourg, and addresses how these are discursively reproduced, sustained or challenged by members of resident migrant communities in the two countries. Although the two countries bear similarities in their small size, extensive multilingualism and the…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Immigrants, Cross Cultural Studies, Multilingualism
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Goirigolzarri Garaizar, Jone; Landabidea Urresti, Xabier – Language Policy, 2020
The handling of linguistic diversity in the Basque Autonomous Community has been an area of constant political debate since the establishment of the Basque-Spanish co-official linguistic regime and the introduction of a process to revitalize Euskara (the Basque language) in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Much of that debate has materialized in…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Language Minorities, Geographic Regions, Spanish
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David Shuang Song – Language Policy, 2024
Through ethnographic fieldwork and sociological theory drawing from French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, this article describes possibilities and restrictions for Chinese language education for Chinese-diasporic youth in the San Francisco area, 50 years after "Lau v. Nichols." I examine four sites of this education, all of which serve…
Descriptors: Community Schools, Heritage Education, Native Language Instruction, Second Language Instruction
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McEntee-Atalianis, Lisa; Vessey, Rachelle – Language Policy, 2020
Supranational and international organisations have long experienced difficulties in implementing multilingual policies, and this is, in part, due to a lack of activism on language matters by their membership (McEntee-Atalianis forthcoming; Kruse and Ammon, in: Chua (ed) Unintended language planning in a globalising world: multiple levels of…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Multilingualism, Language Attitudes, International Organizations
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Pöyhönen, Sari; Simpson, James – Language Policy, 2021
This article is about navigating asylum, employment and language policy in a new country as an asylum seeker. Through the story of one individual, we show that profound inequalities are exacerbated when forced migrants are limited in their choice of language they might study or use. The individual is Tailor F, an Iraqi man seeking asylum, and the…
Descriptors: Refugees, Land Settlement, Employment, Language Planning
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