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Fred Dervin; Kaisa Hahl – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2025
This paper addresses 'distractions' in the way English language education is discussed and practiced in one of the most debated systems of education in the world today: Finnish primary education. Distractions are considered as 'makers of disturbance' in educational ideologies by the authors. Examining the 2014 National Core Curriculum and…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), National Curriculum
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Ursula Lanvers – Irish Educational Studies, 2024
The launch of Ireland's first official language education policy Languages Connect, Ireland's Strategy for Foreign Languages in Education 2017--2026 (DES 2017) envisages wide-reaching changes for foreign language learning and teaching, both at primary and secondary sector. This study asks if the policy is equipped to address Ireland's main…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Irish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Dongil Shin – Language Testing, 2024
This paper addresses the intersection of testing and policy, situating test-driven impact and validation within the context of policy-led educational reform in Korea. I will briefly review the existing validation models. Then, arguing for an expansion of the conventional conceptualization of consequential validity research, I use Fairclough's…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Discourse Analysis, Test Validity, Educational Change
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Yanhong Liu; Stephen May; Lawrence Jun Zhang – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
China has had an ambivalent policy for the learning and teaching of English as a foreign language (EFL) over much of its history. The explicit and implicit implementation of language policy has had a significant impact on the content of EFL textbooks and the ideologies underlying them. However, studies exploring such ideologies remain sensitive…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Textbooks, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Rasti, Alireza – New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies, 2023
Due to their mostly normative and legitimatory nature, public policies at large and education policies in particular are liable to frame perceived problems in the social domain as seen through the policy-making elite's perspective and seek to advance solutions to them. On the surface, the staged process of policy design, implementation, and…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Language of Instruction, Policy Formation, Discourse Analysis
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Katie A. Bernstein; Lindsey Brown; Yalda M. Kaveh; Brandon Yuhas; Sepide Pazhouhi – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2025
Language education policy in Arizona has been on a rollercoaster over the last five years. Between 2019 and 2024, the state shifted from strict English-only enforcement to loosening restrictions and encouraging dual language approaches, then back to strict English-only enforcement. In this forum piece, we use approaches from critical discourse…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, State Policy, Superintendents, English Only Movement
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La?cu, Tatiana – Hungarian Educational Research Journal, 2023
The aim of the article is to present a study of the literary text from a discursive perspective focusing on the development of the discourse competence in the English language. It is a new approach in the EFL methodology which highlights the relation between the holistic understanding of the comunication, social phenomena and the study of language…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Communicative Competence (Languages)
Noah Katznelson – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Neoliberalism has become the hegemonic rationality of our time, framing nearly every aspect of our social world in terms of competition. This dissertation sheds light on neoliberal infiltration and naturalization within the field of language education through three distinct but interrelated papers. "In Discourses of Dual Language Bilingual…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Parrish, Abigail – Language Learning Journal, 2023
Modern Foreign Language (MFL) education has long been described as being 'in crisis' by virtue of a long decline in the numbers of students being entered for exams at age 16 and 18. Whilst this decline is generally attributed to policy, harsh grading and the rise of global English, this paper challenges this view by positioning the decline at the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Course Selection (Students), Femininity
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Bronwen Dyson; Gaby Ramia – Higher Education Research and Development, 2024
Universities in anglophone countries responded to soaring numbers of non-traditional enrolments by expanding student support services. They have done so without being able to guarantee that international students will develop in their English language during a university degree (Humphreys, 2022, The need for English language development in…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Universities, Nontraditional Students
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Zhanna K. Makhanova; Natalya V. Dmitryuk; Gulbanu B. Makhanova – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2025
The importance of addressing the linguodidactic problems of intercultural communication in the multilingual educational space of the Republic of Kazakhstan lies in the fact that by 2021, the Programme of trilingual education in the region, adopted for implementation in the early 2000s, will have reached its final stage. The purpose of this study…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Ethnic Groups, Multilingualism, Second Language Learning
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Marianna Levrints Lorincz – TEFLIN Journal: A publication on the teaching and learning of English, 2024
The present study explored the dominant discourses of language teaching challenges by utilizing methods associated with corpus linguistics and probed for the validity of the applied methodological design. The gleanings were obtained based on a specialized corpus (638,312 tokens) of journal articles pertinent to the designated topic sourced from…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Harklau, Linda; Batson, Kate C. – Innovative Higher Education, 2023
Remediation reform is an influential policy movement in U.S. higher education that aims to increase college completion rates. College first-year reading and writing course requirements have been a major focus of this movement, particularly prerequisite "developmental" course sequences for entering students who are deemed underprepared…
Descriptors: Monolingualism, Remedial Instruction, Educational Change, Educational Policy
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Sedlacek, Quentin Charles – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2023
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to support advocacy for racial and linguistic justice by examining teachers' efforts to contest their colleagues' language-exclusive policies and practices. Design/methodology/approach: The author used a critical and reconstructive discourse analysis guided by interest convergence theory to analyze narratives…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Advocacy, Teacher Attitudes, Educational Policy
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Nguyen, Chinh Duc; Trent, John; Nguyen, Thao Phuong – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2023
This paper reports the results of a qualitative study that explores the perspectives of one group of parents on English language teachers' identity and practice in primary schools in Vietnam. Grounded in mixed identity theories (self and others), this study uses in-depth interviews to reveal how these parents position English language teachers and…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Language Teachers, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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