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Fettes, Mark – Language Problems & Language Planning, 2001
Discusses an extensive research program that was conducted under the auspices of the International Auxiliary Language Association, whose goal was to gather information on Esperanto, Ido, or Latino. Reviews ideological influences that instead led to creation of new hybrid language, Interlingua. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Language Planning, Language Research, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning

Reagan, Timothy; Vorster, Jan – Language Problems & Language Planning, 2000
Provides an examination of the distinctions among different subgroups of less commonly taught languages, as well as some of the social, political, economic, cultural, and ideological elements that affect these languages, especially in terms of their presence of lack of presence in the public school curriculum. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Curriculum, Language Planning, Public Schools, Second Language Instruction

O Riain, Sean – Language Problems & Language Planning, 2003
Describes the German interlinguistics society Gesellschaft fur Interlinguistik (GIL), which was founded to bring together interlinguistics and esperantology scholars. Highlights GIL's principal fields of activity and discusses its role in the fields of international linguistic communication, language planning, esperantolgy, and the teaching of…
Descriptors: Esperanto, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Language Planning

Zelazny, Walter – Language Problems & Language Planning, 2003
Raises questions about the a European Union commissioned report titled "Les Europeens et les langues," which was prepared in accordance with the customary routine used for a series of report on European public opinion. Issues discussed include the omission of several languages, the use of Esperanto, the languages reportedly used by…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Language Planning, Language Role

Karoulla-Vrikki, Dimitra – Language Problems & Language Planning, 2001
Discusses language planning in the domain of courts in Cyprus. Examines the dominant role of English in court from 1960 until 1988 as reflecting Cyprocentric state identity associations. Investigates the use of Greek after the enactment of a law that brought the reversal of the linguistic situation. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Court Litigation, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Greek

Kheimets, Nina G.; Epstein, Alek D. – Language Problems & Language Planning, 2001
Reviews sociological analysis of the transformation of the link between language and identity among Soviet Jewish immigrants in Israel, focusing on their common desire for Russian language maintenance after their immigration to Israel. Argues that although the immigrants acquire fast, the former Jewish intelligensia's perception of the dominant…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Hebrew, Immigrants, Jews

Papapavlou, Andreas N. – Language Problems & Language Planning, 2001
Examines concerns and fears that were expressed recently about the influx of English loanwords in Cypriot Greek and in general the influence of English in Cyprus and reviews papers presented at a conference held in 1992 that dealt with the dominance of English and the suppression of Cypriot Greek. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Greek, Language Dominance