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Bayat, Zoha; Kircher, Ruth; Van de Velde, Hans – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2023
This paper examines minority language education in the Dutch province of Fryslân from a rights-based approach. To conduct the analysis, we employed a qualitative (legal) content analysis. We explored minority language rights at different levels to answer the following question: To what extent are international and regional standards on…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Language Planning, Indo European Languages, Multilingualism
Schneider, Cindy – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2015
In the early 1990s, the government of Papua New Guinea (PNG) enacted educational reform. It officially abandoned its English-only policy at elementary school level, in favour of community languages. In response, the Kairak community of East New Britain Province developed a vernacular literacy programme. This paper, based on original fieldwork…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Native Language