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Beiler, Ingrid Rodrick – Language Policy, 2023
In the Nordic countries, policy debates about English often highlight the threat of domain loss for national languages, but the high status of English may also have a differential impact on people in Nordic societies. This article investigates a policy gap in Norwegian upper secondary education, whereby an advanced English subject requirement may…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Educational Policy
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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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Tannenbaum, Michal; Shohamy, Elana; Inbar-Lourie, Ofra – Language Policy, 2022
Advocacy strategies are characterized by collaborations amongst various stakeholders working together to create changes and reforms. In language education policy, this refers to various types of initiatives and activities intended to create language policy reforms on local and/or national levels. In this paper such activities are traced, analyzed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multilingualism, Educational Policy, Language Planning
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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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Ashraf, Hina – Language Policy, 2023
Pakistan, one of the eight countries comprising South Asia, has more than 212.2 million people, making it the world's fifth most populous country after China, India, USA, and Indonesia. It has also the world's second-largest Muslim population. Eberhard et al. (Ethnologue: languages of the world, SIL International, 2020) report 77 languages used by…
Descriptors: Language Role, Urdu, Muslims, English (Second Language)
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Nirukshi Perera; Iryna Khodos – Language Policy, 2025
This article explores how language learning is an integral component of progressing linguistic reconciliation in contexts of war and conflict. Sri Lanka is a case where ethnolinguistic division and the devaluation of Tamil as a co-official language has led to linguistic injustice for Tamil people and users of Tamil. In the post-war landscape,…
Descriptors: Dravidian Languages, Foreign Countries, War, Conflict
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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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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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Meighan, Paul J. – Language Policy, 2023
Language planning and policy (LPP), as a field of research, emerged to solve the "problem" of multilingualism in newly independent nation-states. LPP's principal emphasis was the reproduction of one-state, one-language policies. Indigenous languages were systematically erased through top-down, colonial medium-of-instruction policies,…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Multilingualism, American Indian Languages, Residential Schools
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Savski, Kristof – Language Policy, 2020
Since its publication in 2001, the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) has become a highly influential means of describing language proficiency. Its spread has, however, been marked by contradictions, since the framework has been appropriated in the service of a variety of different policy agendas. In this paper, I argue…
Descriptors: Rating Scales, Guidelines, Language Proficiency, Discourse Analysis
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Han, Yawen; De Costa, Peter I.; Cui, Yaqiong – Language Policy, 2019
Building on recent calls to examine the material realities of people's lives, our paper explores how developments in ecological approaches to second language acquisition (SLA) and recent SLA identity work can help advance the language policy and planning (LPP) research agenda. To this end, we draw on (1) the multi-level transdisciplinary framework…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Minority Groups, Ethnic Groups, Second Language Learning
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Codó, Eva; Patiño-Santos, Adriana – Language Policy, 2018
The introduction of English and other foreign languages as media of instruction, which is generally referred to as content and language integrated learning (CLIL), has transformed the teaching experiences of a large number of educators. Yet their daily struggles and personally ambivalent stances have hardly been examined. This paper addresses this…
Descriptors: Language of Instruction, Course Content, Second Language Learning, Teaching Methods
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Pérez, América; Lorenzo, Francisco; Pavón, Víctor – Language Policy, 2016
Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) has expanded all around the continent following European Council guidelines, favored by competence studies that identified educational systems as a strong determinant for second language gains and deficits. Over the years since the turn of the century, CLIL has gained the support of language policy…
Descriptors: Models, Bilingual Education Programs, Multilingualism, French
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Incelli, Ersilia – Language Policy, 2008
This paper investigates the foreign language management strategies of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Lazio, Italy. Based on empirical data from a questionnaire survey and ethnographic interviews, it also aims to validate the hypothesis that macro-level language planning (on a national scale) may not reflect language problems…
Descriptors: Linguistic Competence, Language Planning, Second Languages, Multilingualism