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Vanbuel, Marieke – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2022
This study examines how different stakeholders perceive the implementation of language education policy. Even though policies often prioritize a certain solution to the policy problem, the different stakeholders that are involved in the process of policy design and implementation may interpret them differently (Spillane et al., 2002). This, in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Language of Instruction, Second Language Learning
Lu, Juexuan; Shen, Qi – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2022
This study examines how China's LOTE (languages other than English) students perceive English and their target languages as different types of linguistic capital with different values, and how they exercise their agency as micro level LPP (language planning and policy) actors in language learning. Data were gathered from in-depth interviews with…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes
Bylin, Maria; Tingsell, Sofia – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2022
The study compares the uses of the native-speaker concept as a legitimizing resource in language-standard ideologies and normative discourse in five languages of European origin. Much research and international discussion has focused on the native speaker of English, a symbolically international language. We aim to show how the native-speaker…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Native Speakers, Language Attitudes, Language Variation
Weekly, Robert – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2020
In this paper, I draw on interview data with multilingual British South-Asian English language teachers to examine their language attitudes and beliefs about the responsibility for heritage language maintenance in the UK. While all the participants feel that it is important for heritage languages to be maintained, differences emerged with respect…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Maintenance, Heritage Education, Teacher Attitudes
Wilson, George – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2023
This article compares the immersion-education systems in Brittany and Wales. The number of Welsh speakers is growing thanks to its well-developed immersion-education system. Brittany has a much less well-developed system and the number of Breton speakers is falling dramatically. Urgent action is needed if Breton is to survive. Using an approach…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, Welsh, Comparative Education, Foreign Countries
Van Oss, Victoria; Van Avermaet, Piet; Struys, Esli; Vantieghem, Wendelien – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2022
This study investigates Spolsky's conception of language policy as the amalgam of language beliefs, language practices and language management. To the best of our knowledge, no quantitative evidence has ever been produced for his theoretical model. The current paper addressed this void, albeit specifically in the domain of Early Childhood Care and…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Language Attitudes, Early Childhood Education, Child Care
De Meulder, Maartje – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2017
Through the British Sign Language (Scotland) Act, British Sign Language (BSL) was given legal status in Scotland. The main motives for the Act were a desire to put BSL on a similar footing with Gaelic and the fact that in Scotland, BSL signers are the only group whose first language is not English who must rely on disability discrimination…
Descriptors: Deafness, Language Planning, Sign Language, Language Minorities
McDermott, Philip – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2019
In 1999, devolved governance was established in Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland which altered the contours of language recognition in the United Kingdom. Whilst much focus has been placed on how devolution improved the status of Welsh, Scottish Gaelic, and Irish, less attention has been placed on those minority vernaculars with 'contested'…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Governance, Language Minorities, Welsh
Poudel, Prem Prasad; Choi, Tae-Hee – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2022
Language policy and planning in Nepal has been contested due to the co-existence of multiple contradictory discourses concerning teaching and learning of local, national, foreign, and international languages. Recently a multilingual policy was issued to create space for the once-banned ethnic/indigenous languages in public schooling, further…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Educational Policy
Poudel, Prem Prasad; Choi, Tae-Hee – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2021
The medium of instruction (MOI) has been a contested issue in multilingual polities globally, as English medium of instruction (EMI) has seen unprecedented growth, threatening the use and sometimes very survival of local/indigenous and even national languages. While the struggles to address related issues have been well researched, how and why…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Language of Instruction, Language Planning, Educational Policy
Eckert, Eva – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2015
In the Czech Republic, Romani language planning has long been a controversial subject. The question informing the current research is whether the European Charter's goal of protecting, maintaining and invigorating Romani is attainable in a culture driven by standard language ideology, Czech society's aversion to multiculturalism and an overall…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Foreign Countries, Cultural Pluralism, Minority Groups
Delarue, Steven; De Caluwe, Johan – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2015
Flanders, the northern, Dutch-speaking part of Belgium, is experiencing growing intra- and interlingual diversity. On the intralingual level, Tussentaal ("in-between-language") has emerged as a cluster of intermediate varieties between the Flemish dialects and Standard Dutch, gradually becoming "the" colloquial language. At the…
Descriptors: Social Differences, Indo European Languages, Native Language, Foreign Countries
Kroon, Sjaak; Yagmur, Kutlay – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2014
In this paper, the on-going process of language policy-making in Suriname is dealt with using quantitative data obtained from students as well as teachers in primary and secondary schools. The Republic of Suriname is a former Dutch colony on the Caribbean coast of South America. Suriname shelters around 20 languages. Dutch is the official language…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Planning, Language Research, Statistical Analysis
Lazdina, Sanita – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2013
This paper deals with current questions in revitalizing the regional language Latgalian, one of the varieties native to Latgale, a region located in the eastern part of Latvia. It first provides an overview of domains where Latgalian is used and highlights recent changes in these. Based on linguistic landscape data as well as interviews with…
Descriptors: Indo European Languages, Foreign Countries, Language Maintenance, Language Planning
Hamid, M. Obaidul; Jahan, Iffat; Islam, M. Monjurul – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2013
The use of English as a medium of instruction (MOI) in polities across the world has drawn attention of language policy and planning scholars and researchers. Increasingly, research on MOI policy and practice focuses on how macro-level policies are translated into action by "actors" including teachers and students in the micro-context.…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Ideology, Language Planning
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