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Gao, Yang; Zeng, Gang – Cogent Education, 2021
National language planning and family language planning may converge or diverge. As 2019 marks the 70th anniversary of the establishment of the new China, we examined language planning at both the national level and the family level in China. We first revisited language policy and planning in China over the last seventy years through a policy…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Family Relationship, Language Planning, Comparative Analysis
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Ballinger, Susan; Brouillard, Melanie; Ahooja, Alexa; Kircher, Ruth; Polka, Linda; Byers-Heinlein, Krista – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2022
The current paper describes a study that sought to determine the beliefs, practices, and needs of parents living in Montreal, Quebec, who were raising their children bi/multilingually. The parents (N = 27) participated in a total of nine focus group and individual interviews in which they discussed their family language policies (language…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Family Relationship, French, Language Attitudes
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Kretzer, Michael M.; Kaschula, Russell H. – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2021
Language policy and Linguistic Landscapes (LL) are a highly contested area in South Africa. Due to Apartheid, the education system constitutes the core of such contestation. In Post-Apartheid South Africa the new Constitution of 1996, the South African Schools Act (SASA) and recent political initiatives such as the Use of Official Languages Act of…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Social Change, Racial Segregation, Official Languages
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McKay, Sandra Lee – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2018
A great deal has been written about what English as an International Language (EIL) actually is (e.g. Alsagoff et al., 2012; Matsuda, 2012; McKay and Brown, 2016; Sharifian, 2009), ranging from a view of EIL as the many varieties of English that are spoken today to the use of English by second language speakers of English. Thus, EIL is viewed both…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
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MacLeod, Andrea A. N.; Castellanos-Ryan, Natalie; Parent, Sophie; Jacques, Sophie; Séguin, Jean R. – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2019
Differences between monolingual and multilingual vocabulary development have been observed but few studies provide a longitudinal perspective on vocabulary development before and following school entry. This study compares vocabulary growth profiles of 106 multilingual children to 211 monolingual peers before and after school entry to examine…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Multilingualism, Longitudinal Studies, Comparative Analysis
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Gal, Susan – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2013
Monolingual speakers of a national language continue to be the ideal figures on which national identities and senses of community are built. Yet this longstanding equation between nation and language is being contested by other ideologies. Alternatives are emerging from such disparate social locations as the European Union, now advocating for…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Language Variation, Foreign Countries, Ideology
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Kim, Jeongyeon; Tatar, Bradley; Choi, Jinsook – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2014
This study aims to contrastively examine Korean and international students' experiences of taking subject courses at a Korean university. Focusing on the viewpoints of the students, rather than central authorities, we attempt to reveal how language use and cultural factors are interpenetrated in the praxis of English-medium instruction (EMI). The…
Descriptors: Language of Instruction, Korean, Interviews, English (Second Language)
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Bjorge, Anne Kari – Applied Linguistics, 2012
English spoken by those who do not share their first language is increasingly referred to as English lingua franca (ELF). For ELF speakers, it can be a challenge to express conflicting opinions, as a common language and/or cultural background cannot be taken for granted. This is recognized by writers of business English textbooks, who provide…
Descriptors: Cultural Background, English (Second Language), Business English, Textbooks
Keeves, John P.; Darmawan, I. Gusti Ngurah – International Education Journal, 2007
This article considers the current debate in Australia into the learning of literacy and foreign languages. It examines not only the literacy levels attained by Australian students in their national language (English) in comparison to these in other countries, as well as between Australian states, but also theories involved in school learning and…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Second Language Learning, Official Languages, Foreign Countries
Mackey, W. F. – 1981
Both Ireland and Canada are officially bilingual countries. There are similarities between the two countries and differences with regard to numbers of speakers and purposes for which speakers use Irish or French. Yet, a comparison of language policy in the two countries is possible, one which would focus on demographic, economic, social, cultural,…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Comparative Analysis, Cultural Influences, Economic Factors
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Gardner-Chloros, Penelope; McEntee-Atalianis, Lisa; Finnis, Katerina – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2005
In this paper we explore language attitudes and use in the Greek Cypriot community in London, England. Our study is based on an earlier survey carried out in Nicosia, Cyprus and we compare attitudes to language and reported language use in the two communities. We thereby highlight the significance of sociolinguistic variables on similar groups of…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Official Languages, Foreign Countries, Greek
Petrounias, E. – 1970
This article explains the linguistic situation in Greece and the condition of diglossia that has arisen there through the use of common Modern Greek, developing from the Athenian dialect into a medium of communication used by all Greeks, and the use of Katharevusa, the "pure" or "purifying" language which is supposedly an imitation of Ancient…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Diachronic Linguistics, Diglossia, Greek
Rubin, Joan – 1971
Two basic issues underlie problems associated with the teaching of Bahasa Indonesia in the Indonesian primary schools. The first involves language standardization and deciding what form of the language will be taught. The criteria of understanding and communication are involved and such features as pronunciation, vocabulary, spelling, punctuation,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Communication (Thought Transfer), Comparative Analysis, Educational Problems