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Liddicoat, Anthony J.; Taylor-Leech, Kerry – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2021
The role of agency in language planning and policy (LPP) is a recent focus of scholarship. Interest in agency has seen new issues and contexts being given prominence in LPP research. In this introduction, we present an overview of theoretical definitions of agency and the ways it has emerged as a concept in LPP scholarship. We consider how…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Decision Making, Scholarship, Personal Autonomy
Weinberg, Miranda – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2021
Analyzing three cases of school-level language policy decision-making in Nepal shows that each school had a pair of language policy arbiters, actors with disproportionate power over language policy decisions. The permissive but passive stance of Nepal's government toward providing multilingual schooling including minoritized languages created a…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Decision Making, Ethnography, Power Structure
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Mazlum, Farhad – Language Policy, 2022
Choosing which additional language to include in national curricula and when to begin teaching it are important educational policy decisions. The current study aims to provide a contextually embedded picture of such policymaking process in the Iranian context. More specifically, the study is intended to explain the agency mechanism of different…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Role, Language Planning
Chen, Xiuwen; Tao, Jian; Zhao, Ke – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2021
In contrast to the waning interest in learning languages other than English (LOTEs) worldwide, mainland China is pursuing to diversify LOTE education because of the 'Belt and Road Initiative.' In response to language policy shifts, individual stakeholders in local contexts such as universities have to take actions to initiate LOTE programs or…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Poudel, Prem Prasad; Choi, Tae-Hee – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2021
The medium of instruction (MOI) has been a contested issue in multilingual polities globally, as English medium of instruction (EMI) has seen unprecedented growth, threatening the use and sometimes very survival of local/indigenous and even national languages. While the struggles to address related issues have been well researched, how and why…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Language of Instruction, Language Planning, Educational Policy
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Johnson, David Cassels; Johnson, Eric J. – Language Policy, 2015
In this article we proffer a theoretical model for analyzing power in language policy processes and incorporate ethnographic data to illustrate the usefulness of the model. Grounded in an ethnographic project in the US state of Washington, we examine how nominally identical school district-level programs, which are funded under the same…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Language Planning, Models, Educational Research