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Maraf, Baya; Vanci Osam, Ulker – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2023
The present study provides an insight into foreign language policy endeavour in Algeria. It responds to the concept of an English 'tidal wave' (Spolsky [2004]. "Language policy." Cambridge University Press), and uses Spolsky's ([2009]. "Language management." Cambridge University Press) social approach and Djité's ([1994].…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Language Planning
Mackenzie, Lee – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2023
Many higher education (HE) systems in the Global South have prioritised English language education (ELE), including in Colombia where English has become the dominant foreign language of HE. However, little is known about its effects on the lives of HE students from low-income backgrounds. Addressing this knowledge gap is critical to ensure that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Higher Education
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
Smith, Michael D. – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2023
As global neoliberalism continues to take root, States aim to produce linguistically-skilled human capital to gain an advantage within highly-competitive market conditions. With this relationship in view, English language proficiency constitutes a 'rational' educational pathway for national and personal-level success within an outwardly…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Higher Education, Educational Policy, Global Approach
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
Jee-Hee Kim; Tae-Hee Choi – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2025
As English is recognised as an influential language in the globalised world and social and economic capital for individuals, Koreans put tremendous effort and financial resources into learning English, instigating a social malady called 'English fever.' The fever has recently infiltrated early childhood education, leading to the expansion of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intervention, Early Childhood Education, English (Second Language)
Kai Zhu; Shanhua He – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2025
This study investigates the language ideologies manifested in the linguistic hierarchies produced by relevant EU governmental/political institutions through their language requirements for visa application documents. Based on the theoretical framework of Language Management Theory (LMT), this study employs a mixed-methods approach, combining…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Planning, Public Policy, Native Language
Hywel Coleman; Nur Fauzan Ahmad; Nilawati Hadisantosa; Kuchah Kuchah; Martin Lamb; Dana Waskita – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2024
Research on English Medium Instruction (EMI) in Higher Education (HE) has tended to have a technicist orientation, examining for example how it is implemented and the challenges it has encountered. Much less critical attention has been given to the rationales that language policy makers and other stakeholders offer for introducing EMI - the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Deans, Higher Education, College Students
Yawen Han; Juan Dong – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2024
The adoption of English medium instruction (EMI) in higher education has gained popularity in China's tertiary education as a result of globalization. International students in Chinese universities are celebrated as part of soft power projection to extend China's global impact. Informed by Piller and Cho's concept of "Neoliberalism as…
Descriptors: Language of Instruction, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries
Yawen Han; Dan Li; Juan Dong – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2025
Informed by the theoretical concepts of 'practiced' language policy and space, the study investigates the language practices of English-medium Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) programs for international students, focusing on the interactional norms of language choice in a Chinese hospital where international students are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Planning, Language Role, English (Second Language)
Thi Kim Anh Dang; Gary Bonar; Jiazhou Yao – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2024
The internationalisation of higher education (HE) worldwide has led to an expansion of courses using English-as-a-medium-of-instruction (EMI) in non-native-English-speaking countries. Research has identified complex challenges facing EMI educators in implementing EMI policies and suggested separately the significant roles educators' agency and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Language of Instruction, Universities, English (Second Language)
Heng Cai; Miao Yang; Danping Wen – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2024
The past few decades have seen a boom in English-medium instruction (EMI) in Chinese universities. Despite growing research interest in EMI policy and practices in China, little is known about how students' motivation to study in the EMI programs is influenced by EMI policy and its implementation at the meso and micro levels. This study addresses…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, Medical Education, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Shirahata, Mai; Lahti, Malgorzata – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2023
Many universities in non-English speaking countries have been adopting English as a medium of instruction to internationalize their education. We set out to compare the language policies of a Finnish and a Japanese university using the lens of language ideology -- a set of normative beliefs about the social dimension of language. Data were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Language Planning, Educational Policy
Christopher Samuell – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2024
Private educational activities designed to enhance student outcomes outside the formal schooling system are increasingly referred to as shadow education. In Japan, shadow education traditionally consists of for-profit cram schools or "juku." "Juku" take many forms in Japan, yet their primary function is to offer students extra…
Descriptors: Tutoring, Socioeconomic Status, Decision Making, English (Second Language)
Mir Afzal Tajik; Syed Abdul Manan; Uli Schamiloglu; Gulnara Namyssova – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2024
This study investigated multilingual students' linguistic challenges at English-medium instruction (EMI) universities in Kazakhstan. Using language policy and planning as a theoretical lens, this study looked at EMI policy in general, particularly the academic English challenges of students due to a haphazard implementation of the EMI policy in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language of Instruction