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Tupas, Ruanni – Language and Education, 2015
This paper discusses structural and ideological challenges to mother tongue-based multilingual education (MTB-MLE) which has in recent years been gaining ground in many educational contexts around the world. The paper argues, however, that MTB-MLE is set against these challenges - referred to here as inequalities of multilingualism - which prevent…
Descriptors: Native Language, Multilingualism, Native Language Instruction, Sociolinguistics
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Chen, Su-Chiao – Language and Education, 2006
The indigenisation and internationalisation of Taiwan emerged as issues of national concern as a result of the democratisation of politics in the late 1980s which profoundly changed the sociopolitical and economic climate. One manifestation of these changes was "new" language-in-education policies. These were the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Economic Climate, Bilingualism