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Amani Batakji Chazy – Arab Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2023
The government of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has designed a range of policies, initiatives, and projects that aim to improve and revive the Arabic language on political, cultural, and educational levels. During the past decade, these initiatives emerged as a response to a perceived decline in the use of the Arabic language and challenges faced…
Descriptors: Arabic, Language Planning, Educational Policy, Native Language
István Jánk; Szilvia Rási – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2025
This study primarily focuses on the situation of Hungarians in minority situations in relation to language varieties, i.e. it interprets the various language policy issues primarily in the context of the Hungarian-speaking community, rather than in the context of Hungary, where the place, role and relationship between standard and non-standard…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Minorities, Native Language, Hungarian
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Hunt, Jaime W.; Davis, Sacha E. – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2022
Family language policy research often neglects the dynamic nature of FLP over time. Here, we interview second generation members of migrant families for their recollections as heritage language learners and their experiences setting their own FLP towards their children. We use a transdisciplinary oral history/narrative methodology to discern…
Descriptors: Social Attitudes, Educational Policy, Language Planning, Migrants
Vicky Macleroy; Jim Anderson; Yu-chiao Chung – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2024
This article examines the Critical Connections Multilingual Digital Storytelling Project through the lens of Language Policy and Planning (LPP) and considers the situation of heritage language learning within the policy on language education. We present our project as grassroots policymaking in practice and demonstrate how, through deep and…
Descriptors: Policy Formation, Native Language, Personal Autonomy, Activism
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Memet Aktürk-Drake – Language Policy, 2024
This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the motivations that key policy documents have put forward as justifications for Sweden's mother-tongue instruction in immigrant and historical minority languages as a multicultural policy that has endured for nearly half a century. The diachronic development of these motivations is analysed in four…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Planning, Native Language, Native Language Instruction
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Zettl, Evamaria – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2023
This study analyses practices regarding home languages in a nursery school from a multilingual district in Germany, and the language policies and discourses that become visible in these. First, the context is outlined of Early Childhood Education and Care for multilingual children in Germany; then, the concepts of practices, discourses and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschools, Native Language, Family Environment
Mouni, Ram Bahadur – Online Submission, 2023
This article aims to identify the ideologies of school-head teachers towards a mother tongue-based multilingual education (MTB-MLE) policy and analyse how these ideologies influence the implementation of MTB-MLE policy in schools in the context of Nepal. Adopting qualitative ethnographic research, two school-level policy arbiters (head teachers)…
Descriptors: Ideology, Educational Policy, Language Planning, Multilingualism
Van Oss, Victoria; Vantieghem, Wendelien; Struys, Esli; Van Avermaet, Piet – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2023
Whereas early childhood professionals can play a pivotal role in fostering young children's home language development, little is known about what determines the kind of multilingual parenting advice they offer families. The objective of this study was to deconstruct the processes culminating in two types of such recommendations: "advice…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Educational Policy, Early Childhood Education, Early Childhood Teachers
Anwar Ahmed – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2025
Focusing on language education policies in Bangladesh, this article shows how the policies have distracted people's attention from the harms inflicted on the country's Indigenous communities and their languages. I discuss two factors that have contributed to policy distractions in this context: a strong form of Bangla linguistic nationalism and a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Planning, Educational Policy, Indo European Languages
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Einas Bashir Albadawi; Bedrettin Yazan – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2024
In this study, we analyze interview data from 17 mothers of Arabic-English multilingual families to examine their experiences of maintaining their children's Arabic language development during the COVID-19 pandemic. We were interested in exploring the challenges they faced during the pandemic and their responses to those challenges with the…
Descriptors: Family Environment, Language Planning, Educational Policy, COVID-19
Mohammod Moninoor Roshid; Phan Le Ha – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2025
The medium of education (MoE) globally sparks controversy over the ideal medium--mother tongue, target language, or bilingual/multilingual policies. In Bangladesh, diverse MoE options (Bangla medium, English medium, and English version) fuel debates among stakeholders. Amidst this noise, systemic problems are often overlooked, diverting attention…
Descriptors: Language of Instruction, English (Second Language), Native Language, Educational Policy
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Damber, Ulla; Hermansson, Carina; Andersson, Birgit; Jendis, Mareike – Education Inquiry, 2022
This study describes and critically discusses a development project designed to create and enact a local language policy at a Swedish multilingual school, its context, content and implementation dimensions. The collaborative construction of a school language policy is a complex process, with tensions that need to be resolved. By describing the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multilingualism, Language, Native Language
Bazai, Zia ur Rehman; Manan, Syed Abdul; Pillai, Stefanie – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2023
The teaching of native languages is seen as being key to the development of cognitive skills, better academic performance in early grades and a resource for linguistic (re)vitalization and cultural revival. This study examines the institutional challenges in teaching and learning native languages in Pakistan. The study uses teachers' agency…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Planning, Native Language Instruction, Language Teachers
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Baya Maraf – African Educational Research Journal, 2024
This study explores the implications of the current foreign language policy in Algeria by holding evidence from the Algerian government practices and the Algerians' beliefs and views. The study also responds to the call of Maraf and Osam (2022a) to study neoliberalism as a possible outcome of the English wave in Algeria and considers further…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Educational Policy
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Sarah C. K. Moore; John Chi – Language Policy, 2024
To commemorate "Lau v. Nichols," this paper reports on findings from archival data revealing its micro- and macro-level genesis, successive activities, and that despite its historic role in language policy development and critical importance for codifying language rights, the vision for educational equity by the Cantonese-speaking,…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, School Districts, Instructional Leadership, Biculturalism
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