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Sílvia Melo-Pfeifer – Language and Education, 2024
This paper reports on a research project which asked scholars to speak about their multilingual and collaborative academic practices. This case study sheds light on the complex and multilayered linguistic choices made by multilingual scholars to comply with the diverse requirements of a multilingual academic life, namely the adoption of EMI…
Descriptors: College Faculty, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Teacher Attitudes
Ying Wang; Dong Jiang – Language and Education, 2025
In line with China's vision for international education, English medium instruction (EMI) is booming in Chinese higher education, which positions Chinese students in circumstances where they need to negotiate among different commitments, roles, identities, and desires involving individual, national and international agendas. This paper draws on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language of Instruction, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Manan, Syed Abdul; Haidar, Sham; Amin, Rooh UI – Language and Education, 2023
This study demonstrates how stakeholders' treatment of English language as the sole marketable/saleable commodity in educational setting can have implications for multilingualism and existing linguistic diversity in Pakistan. Language commodification refers to the valuation of languages as marketable/saleable commodities and their relative…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Language Planning, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Ndebele, Hloniphani; Zulu, Nogwaja S. – Language and Education, 2017
Over the past few decades, there has been an increased awareness of the strategic role of indigenous African languages in multilingual South Africa. This article discusses the strategic role that indigenous languages could and should play in the promotion of multilingual South Africa. The article pays attention to bilingual education and the…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Language of Instruction, African Languages, Bilingualism
Tupas, Ruanni – Language and Education, 2015
This paper discusses structural and ideological challenges to mother tongue-based multilingual education (MTB-MLE) which has in recent years been gaining ground in many educational contexts around the world. The paper argues, however, that MTB-MLE is set against these challenges - referred to here as inequalities of multilingualism - which prevent…
Descriptors: Native Language, Multilingualism, Native Language Instruction, Sociolinguistics
Gierlinger, Erwin – Language and Education, 2015
Classroom code switching in foreign language teaching is still a controversial issue whose status as a tool of both despair and desire continues to be hotly debated. As the teaching of content and language integrated learning (CLIL) is, by definition, concerned with the learning of a foreign language, one would expect the value of code switching…
Descriptors: German, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Native Language
Mwaniki, Munene – Language and Education, 2012
The paper interrogates the issue of language and social justice in South Africa's higher education using quantitative and qualitative data collected at the University of the Free State (UFS). Data were collected using questionnaires. Through purposive sampling based on South African and UFS demographics, 120 questionnaires were administered to UFS…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Questionnaires
Trudell, Barbara – Language and Education, 2010
The role of African languages in formal and nonformal learning is the subject of increasing local, national and international interests. Cognitive and pedagogical reasons abound for using the language best understood by the learner. However, many nonpedagogical factors related to politics, economics, language attitudes and colonial history are…
Descriptors: African Languages, Language Attitudes, Language of Instruction, Language Role
Busch, Brigitta – Language and Education, 2010
Although South Africa is committed to a policy of linguistic diversity, the language-in-education policy is still plagued by the racialization of language issues under apartheid and, more recently, by new challenges posed by internal African migration. Drawing on the experience of a school in the Western Cape Province, this paper explores the role…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Racial Segregation, Multilingualism, Language Role
Moon, Seonghye – Language and Education, 2011
Increasing numbers of Korean sojourner families are moving to an English-speaking country on a short-term basis in the hope of improving educational and linguistic outcomes for their children. This study reports the findings of an ethnographic case study of 10 families in southern England. The motivation for the move to the UK is explored, paying…
Descriptors: Observation, Focus Groups, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
Evans, Stephen – Language and Education, 2008
This article examines colonial language policies and practices at the government Central School, Hong Kong--the so-called Eton of the East--in the second half of the nineteenth century. The article, which draws on a range of unpublished primary sources, seeks to enhance our knowledge of an important episode in Hong Kong's educational history and,…
Descriptors: Educational History, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction

Granville, S.; Janks, H.; Mphahlele, M.; Reed, Y.; Watson, P.; Joseph, M.; Ramani, E. – Language and Education, 1998
Investigates the implications of language in education policy in post apartheid South Africa, for both schools and universities, examining recommendations of the Language Task Action Group (LANGTAG), which was delegated to establish South Africa's language-related needs and policies across different societal domains. The paper supports a proposed…
Descriptors: African Languages, Elementary Secondary Education, English, Foreign Countries