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Peer reviewedPeddie, Roger A. – Language Problems and Language Planning, 1991
Although language policy in New Zealand is emerging piecemeal, without any clear central planning and without much of the data needed for sound policy development, political pressure from indigenous, community, and other language interest groups is interacting positively with government values and may still lead to a coherent national policy. (39…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Language Attitudes
Peer reviewedZhou, Minglang – Language Problems and Language Planning, 1999
Uses an attitude/motivation battery and matched-guise procedure to examine Kazak, Uygur, and Yi subject's ratings of Putonghua (PTH) and Chinese ethnic minority nationality (EMN) languages and 12 variables in PTH learning. Shows among other things that integrative orientation of Beijing people are the best predictors of EMN's instrumental…
Descriptors: College Students, Ethnic Groups, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
