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Schmid, Monika S. – Language Teaching, 2023
Instructed foreign language knowledge -- that is, language skills acquired exclusively in the classroom without the benefit of any significant immersion experience -- remains a vastly neglected area of studies on language learning in general and language attrition in particular. There is also little consideration of foreign language attrition and…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Skill Attrition, Language Research
Manan, Syed Abdul; Haidar, Sham; Amin, Rooh UI – Language and Education, 2023
This study demonstrates how stakeholders' treatment of English language as the sole marketable/saleable commodity in educational setting can have implications for multilingualism and existing linguistic diversity in Pakistan. Language commodification refers to the valuation of languages as marketable/saleable commodities and their relative…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Language Planning, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Sayers, Dave, Comp.; Davies-Deacon, Merryn, Comp.; Croome, Sarah, Comp. – Mercator European Research Centre on Multilingualism and Language Learning, 2018
This regional dossier aims to provide a concise description of the European minority language, Cornish, in education. Aspects that are addressed include features of the education system, recent educational policies, main actors, legal arrangements and support structures, as well as quantitative aspects such as the number of schools, teachers,…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Educational Policy, Indo European Languages, Laws
Lazdina, Sanita – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2013
This paper deals with current questions in revitalizing the regional language Latgalian, one of the varieties native to Latgale, a region located in the eastern part of Latvia. It first provides an overview of domains where Latgalian is used and highlights recent changes in these. Based on linguistic landscape data as well as interviews with…
Descriptors: Indo European Languages, Foreign Countries, Language Maintenance, Language Planning
Valdiviezo, Laura – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2009
This paper explores how teachers' beliefs and practices create spaces for the contestation and innovation of bilingual intercultural education (BIE) policy, a policy of indigenous culture and language revitalization in Peru. Based on ethnographic research, there are two central arguments developed throughout this paper. First, the author argues…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Rural Schools, Multicultural Education, Bilingual Education
Hossain, Tania; Pratt, Cornelius B. – New Horizons in Education, 2008
Background: An important issue in the discourse on language rights is the degree to which they influence the development and implementation of language policies or perpetuate inequalities in many language situations. Skutnabb-Kangas (1996, 2002a, 2002b) and May (2000), for example, have argued that language rights offer a reasonable framework for…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Language Dominance, Language Planning, Equal Education

Shuy, Roger W. – NABE: The Journal for the National Association for Bilingual Education, 1981
Informal interviews with educators, administrators, employers, researchers, and civil rights attorneys indicated that three general areas of focus were apparent: conceptual variables (about what language learning and maintenance actually means); social variables (family, socioeconomic status, sex, age, region, politics); and attitudinal variables.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cultural Influences, Educational Policy, Hispanic Americans

Lewis, E. Glyn – Linguistics, 1977
Discusses the concept that one must work from within bilingual education outward toward other disciplines rather than from the outside, or from the pursuit of other disciplines inward toward an understanding of bilingual education. (Author/HP)
Descriptors: Biculturalism, Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Comparative Analysis

Cummins, Jim – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1989
Three psycho-educational principles are outlined (additive bilingual enrichment principle, interdependence principle, and sufficient communicative interactive principle) to illustrate research on the maintenance of Frisian among native speakers and the development of Frisian fluency among native Dutch speakers. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Dutch, Educational Policy
Wall, Patrick J. – TEANGA: The Irish Yearbook of Applied Linguistics, 1995
A number of issues concerning revival and maintenance of the Irish language are discussed. First, it is found that public attitudes about language use in Ireland, outwardly positive toward revival of Irish usage but not carried through in mass media or education, reflect considerable ambiguity. Linguistic stewardship of the language has been…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Foreign Countries, Irish, Language Attitudes

Hornberger, Nancy H. – Language in Society, 1998
Discusses cases of indigenous/immigrant languages that are in danger of disappearing because they are not being transmitted to the next generation, including languages of South America, South Africa, Southeast Asia, Wales, New Zealand, Turkey, and native languages of California. Such cases provide evidence that language policy and education serve…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Educational Policy, Foreign Countries, Global Approach
Mackey, William Francis – 1978
A study was conducted in Ireland of the mechanisms of linguistic change and the effects of a politics of linguistic irredentism on the language behavior of the population. The objectives of the study were: (1) to discover the nature and the importance of people's attitudes toward the Irish language and its restoration, and (2) to ascertain the…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Educational Policy, Language Attitudes, Language Maintenance
Canale, Michael; Mougeon, Raymond – 1978
This study examines the hypothesis that the French used by a large number of Franco-Ontarians represents a linguistic system (or several systems) that differs from Standard French. In addition, a review of previous research leads to the inverse hypothesis, that Ontarian French represents a body of different systems or sub-systems that are more or…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Dialect Studies, Educational Policy
Mackey, William F., Ed.; Andersson, Theodore, Ed. – 1977
This book consists of the 29 papers presented at the Conference on Child Language co-sponsored by the Center for Applied Linguistics and the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages in Chicago in November of 1971. The subject of the conference was restricted to the learning of two or more languages or dialects by young children,…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Black Dialects, Child Language
Garcia, Eugene E., Ed.; Padilla, Raymond V., Ed. – 1985
Papers on theory, technology, and public policy in bilingualism and bilingual education are collected in this volume designed to fill the need for systematic, high quality research related to bilingual populations in the United States. Part 1, "Language and Culture," contains five papers that discuss first and second language…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language), Cultural Pluralism
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