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Download full textKhubchandani, Lachman M. – 1975
This article discusses the language planning problems that India faces. The distribution and usage of the various languages are outlined. There is considerable linguistic heterogeneity, with 80 languages currently being used as media of instruction at least at an elementary level, and 14 languages being used at the secondary level. Since language…
Descriptors: Dialects, Educational Policy, English, Hindi
Haasbroek, J. B.; Botha, Petro – 1989
In this investigation of education, conducted in South West Africa/Namibia, it was found that the medium of instruction was one of the basic causes of the teaching and educational problems experienced at schools. In South West Africa/Namibia, several languages, including English and Afrikaans as official languages, are involved in the…
Descriptors: African Languages, Afrikaans, Bilingual Education, Developing Nations
Siegel, Florence – 1973
An exploration of issues in language diversity addressing the nature of dialect, features of the dialect, features of black English Vernacular (BEV), linguistic phenomena in the black urban community, theories of the origins of BEV, and its social, economic, and political ramifications suggest that BEV, like other dialects, meets the needs of its…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Distinctive Features (Language), Educational Planning, Educational Policy
Furumoto, Mitchell A., Ed.; And Others – Working Papers in Educational Linguistics, 1997
Reports of language research in the 1996 issue include: "Corpus Planning for the Southern Peruvian Quechua Language" (Serafin M. Coronel-Molina); "Foreign Language Planning in U.S. Higher Education: The Case of a Graduate Business Program" (Mitchell A. Furumoto); "Charting New Directions: Of Communication in a Social…
Descriptors: Business Administration, Business Administration Education, Classroom Environment, Cross Cultural Training
