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Robert M. Higgins – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2025
This study explored a contemporary period of Japanese higher education policy planning that adopted internationalisation of higher education as a metanarrative for sociocultural change in Japan. These wider societal pressures have over a period of time contributed to increasing institutional resistance to top-down policy initiatives. Further,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, International Education, Higher Education, Professional Autonomy
Tran, Hao – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2019
Working from the perspective that teachers are central agents in policy processes and educational changes, this article discusses how 20 teachers, who transitioned from teaching other foreign languages to first learning and then teaching English at one of the leading Vietnamese universities, experienced the transition. Data from multiple in-depth…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Professional Autonomy, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
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
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Gill, Saran Kaur – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2006
In Malaysia, a sudden change in language policy, from Bahasa Melayu to English, has been instituted for the disciplines of science and technology at varying levels of the educational system. For this paper, it will be the domain of higher education that will be focused on. In 2005, the students who had their pre-university courses in English would…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Language Planning, Universities, Foreign Countries