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Yu, Hua; Johnson, David Cassels – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2023
This paper investigates the strategies of governance in the language policy "Chanting the Chinese Classics" (CCC) as deployed by State authorities, schools, and local communities. It highlights the strategy of 'viewing' as a nexus between language policy processes and traditional Chinese governing philosophy. To examine the connections…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Governance, Chinese, Foreign Countries
Keydeniers, Darlene; Aalberse, Suzanne; Andringa, Sible; Kuiken, Folkert – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2022
This paper analyses the motivations behind the implementation of bilingual education in the Dutch preschool system and relates this to the status of Dutch in the Dutch educational system. Based on the analysis of policy documents and questionnaires filled in by parents and teachers, this study reveals two different underlying ideologies that the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Bilingual Education, Indo European Languages, Preschool Education
Shirahata, Mai; Lahti, Malgorzata – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2023
Many universities in non-English speaking countries have been adopting English as a medium of instruction to internationalize their education. We set out to compare the language policies of a Finnish and a Japanese university using the lens of language ideology -- a set of normative beliefs about the social dimension of language. Data were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Language Planning, Educational Policy
Pramod K. Sah – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2025
This article presents the findings of a critical ethnography focused on the English-medium instruction (EMI) policy in Nepal's public schools. Through the analysis of policy documents and interviews with policymakers, the study reveals that policymakers view the EMI policy as a solution to the crisis in public schools by enhancing their…
Descriptors: Language of Instruction, Educational Policy, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Graham, Keith M.; Pan, W.-Y.; Eslami, Z. R. – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2021
Bilingual education is spreading throughout the world as an approach for teaching content and language simultaneously. This is particularly true in Taiwan where implementation of bilingual education has begun as directed by the Blueprint for Developing Taiwan into a Bilingual Nation by 2030. However, the spread of bilingual education is often…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Educational Policy, Monolingualism, Ideology
Spolsky, Bernard – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2018
French colonies were created for the benefit not of the indigenous conquered peoples but of the home country. Their borders were set for political convenience and produced a jumble of ethnicities, languages, and cultures. Exploitation came first, and there was generally no attempt to find a workable educational solution to the local diversity.…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Foreign Policy, French, Second Language Learning
Chen, Xiuwen; Dervin, Fred; Tao, Jian; Zhao, Ke – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2020
Against the backdrop of the Belt and Road Initiative, the study reports on the ideological construction of multilingualism in higher education in mainland China. Through a new methodological approach combining intertextual discourse analysis and thematic analysis, this paper concentrates on the interplay of ideologies towards multilingualism…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Multilingualism, Administrator Attitudes, Foreign Countries
Manuel, Nicolau Nkiawete; Johnson, David Cassels – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2018
Portuguese is the mother tongue for many Angolans yet a majority continue to use African languages in everyday interactions and schools struggle to provide equal educational opportunities for students whose first language is not Portuguese. Recognizing this challenge, the Angolan government has created a language policy that will introduce six…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language of Instruction, Educational Policy, Educational Practices
Han, Yawen; De Costa, Peter I.; Cui, Yaqiong – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2016
We focus on the learning of English in a Chinese university in Jiangsu and the university's preferential language policy, which allowed Uyghur minority students from Xinjiang to be enrolled despite their lower scores in the entrance examination. Guided by the constructs of language ideologies [Kroskrity, P. V. (2000). "Regimes of language:…
Descriptors: Ethnic Groups, Minority Group Students, English (Second Language), Educational Policy
Tollefson, James W. – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2015
In some settings, medium of instruction (MOI) policies in multilingual education break out into public debates in mass media involving politicians, business leaders, government officials, parents, and school children. These public discussions of MOI often index struggles over the distribution of political power and economic resources, and issues…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Policy Formation, Educational Policy, Language of Instruction
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Phyak, Prem – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2013
This paper analyzes the ideologies and practices of local languages as the medium-of-instruction (MOI) policy in a multilingual school in Nepal. Grounded on the notion of language policy as a locally situated social practice, this critical ethnographic study investigates challenges--both ideological and implementational--that local languages MOI…
Descriptors: Learning Problems, Ethnography, Foreign Countries, Ideology
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Li, Minglin – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2011
This paper, drawing on the theoretical framework of critical discourse analysis, examines the general goals and objectives of the national curriculum reform launched by the Ministry of Education in 2001 for Chinese primary schools. Four policy documents relevant to the curriculum reform are analyzed, including Chinese curriculum and English…
Descriptors: National Curriculum, Curriculum Development, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Phyak, Prem Bahadur – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2011
The recent political transformation of Nepal from a constitutional monarchy to a federal democratic republic and from a Hindu polity to a secular country has brought about some crucial changes in language planning. The Interim Constitution of Nepal has not only recognized the multilingual and multicultural reality of the country but has also…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Educational Practices, Primary Education, Multilingualism