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Guillaume Roux; Germana Carolina Soler Millán – Applied Linguistics, 2024
In its language policy and planning (LPP), Colombia offers ethnoeducation for ethnic groups, with Spanish as a second language, and for the protection/revitalization of native languages. However, these LPP measures are insufficiently implemented. Meanwhile, with regard to foreign languages, LPP have specifically advocated a Spanish-English…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Spanish, English, Native Language
Akhil Kumar Singh – Policy Futures in Education, 2025
The National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 marks a significant shift in India's educational framework, particularly with its emphasis on multilingual education (MLE) and mother tongue-based instruction (MTI). Recognizing India's vast linguistic diversity, the policy advocates for teaching in the mother tongue or local language until at least Grade…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multilingualism, Native Language, Educational Policy
Karen Forbes; Nicola Morea – British Educational Research Journal, 2024
Language plays a crucial role in education; yet, while issues of language are undoubtedly relevant to all teachers, school-level language policies, which aim to provide explicit guidance underpinned by a clear set of principles, are too often conspicuous by their absence. In a range of educational contexts around the world it has been found that…
Descriptors: Secondary Schools, Multilingualism, Educational Policy, School Policy
Yvonne Pedria Velasco – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2025
Drawing on Sutton and Levinson's Socio-cultural Approach to policy, this study explores the experiences and collective language beliefs of 25 teachers implementing the Mother Tongue-Based Multilingual Education (MTBMLE) policy in two urban Philippine school districts. Mixed methods were used to understand policy enactment and teacher perspectives.…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Native Language Instruction, Native Language, Second Language Learning
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
Zahra Shah – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2024
Thomas Babington Macaulay's 1835 minute on Indian education is widely held to be representative of the views which underpinned the English East India Company's replacement of Persian with English as the official language of administration in India in 1837, and the promotion of English and Indian vernacular languages as part of colonial educational…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indo European Languages, Urdu, Official Languages
Forbidding and Valuing Home Languages -- Divergent Practices and Policies in a German Nursery School
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
Maria Papakosma – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2024
The aim of this article is to examine contemporary conceptualizations of cultural and linguistic diversity in the Swedish policy for early childhood education and care (ECEC). The analysis draws on in-depth interviews with high-level policy actors and the analysis of documentary material. Using the concepts of interculturality and hybridity as…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Swedish, Diversity, Foreign Countries
Rebecca Adami; Liz Adams Lyngbäck – Human Rights Education Review, 2024
In this paper we conduct a poststructural discourse analysis inspired by Carol Bacchi's 'What's the problem represented to be?' (WRP) approach. We explore what kinds of problems are formulated in preschool educational policy on multilingualism, and what underlying assumptions underlie the dominant discourse on language proficiency in Sweden.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multilingualism, Preschool Education, Educational Policy
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
María Cioè-Peña; Rebecca E. Linares; Sara E. N. Kangas – Language Policy, 2025
While language education programs were created with an equity stance in mind--with the goals of increasing access and facilitating academic success for ethnically and linguistically marginalized students--the larger educational context has compromised access for multiply marginalized students. Recognizing a need for more complex understandings of…
Descriptors: Power Structure, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, 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
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
Jim McKinley; Kari Sahan; Sihan Zhou; Heath Rose – Language and Education, 2024
In the field of English medium instruction (EMI), multilingual research approaches are crucial to carrying out effective and ethically responsible research, because EMI policies and practices are inherently multilingual. This paper is a partial replication study that adopts a 'researching multilingually' analytical framework to interrogate the…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Multilingualism, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning