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Chávez-Moreno, Laura C. – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2020
This article reviews literature on U.S. bilingual education that addresses white supremacy and racism, specifically pertaining to Latinx youth and their teachers. To illustrate the wide range of the research, the author categorizes the reviewed articles into three lines of inquiry: documenting language education policies, negotiating identity, and…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Language Planning, Hispanic Americans, Hispanic American Students
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Thingnes, Jorunn Simonsen – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2022
How are processes of language policy formation carried out? Besides, how does one negotiate competing discourses in a policy process to ensure its legitimacy? Such questions sparked the interest for this study, which examines legitimization processes involved in the development of language policy guidelines at a higher education institution in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Planning, Norwegian, English (Second Language)
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Reagan, Timothy – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2016
The concept "language legitimacy", which entails issues of social class, ethnicity and culture as well as those of dominance and power, is a very important one with implications for both educational policy and practice. This article begins with a brief discussion of the two major ways in which the concept of "language…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Language Dominance, Criticism, Civil Rights
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Henderson, Kathryn I. – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2019
Researchers have identified inequities in dual-language bilingual education (DLBE) student participation, and with large-scale DLBE expansion, equitable student access is an increasingly important issue. In this study, I used a multimethod, multisite, comparative analysis to critically examine educator discourses addressing student participation…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Equal Education, Access to Education, Comparative Analysis
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Curdt-Christiansen, Xiao Lan – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2014
This article examines how political discourse, language ideologies, recent Chinese curriculum reforms, and their representations in the media are inextricably related. Using the "Speak Mandarin Campaign" as background for the inquiry, I focus on textual features of the various media sources, TV advertisements, campaign slogans, official…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Planning, Chinese, Discourse Analysis
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Hossain, Tania; Pratt, Cornelius B. – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2012
In much of the developing world, disparities between native- and nonnative-medium schools are fueled in part by government actions such as resource allocation and administrative oversight that determine institutional policies and practices that perpetuate and exacerbate educational divides, which, in turn, lead to further societal inequality. This…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Language of Instruction, Second Language Learning, Bilingual Education