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Ben Rampton; Melanie Cooke; Dermot Bryers; Becky Winstanley; Constant Leung; Anthony Tomei; Sam Holmes – Language Teaching, 2024
What's the relevance of 'Linguistic Citizenship' (LC), a concept developed in southern Africa, to language education in England? LC is committed to democratic participation and voice, to linguistic diversity and the value of sociolinguistic understanding (Stroud 2001), and it provides a framework for contesting linguistic conditions in England,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Minorities, Citizenship, Sociolinguistics
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Wildsmith-Cromarty, Rosemary; Balfour, Robert J. – Language Teaching, 2019
South Africa's history of segregation and the privileging of English and Afrikaans as the only languages of teaching and learning beyond primary schooling, make the post-apartheid period a complex one, especially in light of the Constitutional commitment to multilingualism in the 11 official languages. Research on literacy and language teaching…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
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Willans, Fiona; Leung, Constant – Language Teaching, 2016
With global attention currently focused on the challenge of providing Education for All (UNESCO 2000), we must ensure that the language of teaching and learning remains a topic on the agenda towards making sure that the education being provided is effective. This is therefore a critical time to review medium of instruction debates, and to reassess…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Language of Instruction, Native Language, Foreign Countries
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Dalton-Puffer, Christiane; Boeckmann, Klaus-Börge; Hinger, Barbara – Language Teaching, 2019
This overview of seven years of research on language learning and teaching in Austria reflects a period of steady growth for the language teaching and learning research community, a development due to a national policy agenda aiming for a stronger research base in teacher education. The target languages of the teaching and learning processes…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Multilingualism, Teaching Methods
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Rubdy, Rani; Tupas, T. Ruanni F. – Language Teaching, 2009
In this review of research in applied linguistics and language teaching and learning in Singapore, more than one hundred national publications for the period 2000-2007 will be reviewed. Since this period encompasses certain changes that were introduced in Singapore schools at the start of the new millennium, it would be appropriate to take stock…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Literature Reviews, Applied Linguistics, Language Research