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Kaveh, Yalda M. – Language Policy, 2023
The field of language policy and planning (LPP) has increasingly expanded its focus beyond legislative measures and macro-level policies toward understanding the power of social actors and their interpretation, appropriation, and creation of language policies in societies. This article aims to advance LPP theory and research by offering a critical…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Language Planning, Public Policy, Linguistic Theory
Assel Kambatyrova – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
Trilingual education policy is fomenting much debate among scholars and public intellectuals in Kazakhstan. However, parents' ideologies in relation to trilingual education are not heard although their participation in policy discussions is important since they play a key role in their children's education. Therefore, this article, through the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Bilingual Education, Multilingualism, Language Planning
Daron Benjamin Loo; Jariya Sairattanain – English in Education, 2024
In Malaysia and some parts of Southeast Asia, efforts to decolonise the English language classroom remain minimal. While there are scholars who advocate criticality towards western-centric perspectives on language education, related work has largely been confined to individual teachers' classrooms. This is further problematised when students'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Decolonization, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
Jabeen, Shagufta – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2023
A national language policy reflects how a state looks at the languages used by its people. It assigns certain roles to languages, and addresses the issues of language education and language of education. Pakistan, a multilingual country, has yet no language policy at national level. This absence of policy has caused many issues, including the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Planning, Educational Policy, Language of Instruction
David Lasagabaster – Language Policy, 2025
South Africa immediately springs to mind as the epitome of multilingual language policies. In fact, its Constitution granted official status to 11 languages in 1996, and the Language Policy in Higher Education passed by the Ministry of Education in 2002 required universities to develop and use the indigenous official languages as academic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multilingualism, Language Planning, Student Attitudes
Bernardo, Alejandro S. – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2024
This paper is an initial attempt to characterise the schoolscape of a four-century old higher education institution in the Philippines and the oldest existing university in Asia, The Royal, Catholic, and Pontifical University of Santo Tomas (UST). Through a systematic inventory of 2,410 visual signs, the analysis of the functional sign…
Descriptors: Universities, Institutional Characteristics, Language Attitudes, Language of Instruction
Shanhua He – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
This paper proposes a concept of "campus vitality" of languages: the ability of a language to maintain its prestige, visibility and continuity on university campuses. A seven-factor framework is developed for on-the-ground investigation of the relevant languages in a given campus context. These indexical factors are the number,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Language Planning, Multilingualism
Sakina M. Alaoui – Discover Education, 2025
This paper examines the linguistic situation in Morocco, with a particular focus on Arabic. The Ministry of Education's approval of a grade two Arabic textbook that employs dialectal Arabic (Darija) words instead of Standard Arabic, which is the usual writing mode, created fierce controversy in the social and political scene between the defenders…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Cultural Influences, Dialects, Textbooks
Wangdi, Jigme; Savski, Kristof – Language Awareness, 2023
There is now increased awareness of the need to challenge 'common sense' ideologies of language in education, turning language classrooms into spaces of analysis and liberation. Key to achieving this goal is equipping students with the skills needed to navigate diverse, complex discourses about language (critical thinking), as well as fostering an…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Metalinguistics, Language of Instruction, Language Attitudes
Yecid Ortega – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2024
Using a critical approach, I discuss the socioeconomic power impact of capitalism, neoliberalism, and globalization in the teaching of English as a foreign language (EFL) in Colombia, described as a symbolic annihilation process. I argue how these three constructs have influenced language policy-decisions making processes and classroom practices…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Teaching Methods, Social Systems, Global Approach
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
Othman Z. Barnawi; Ayman Alzahrani – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2025
Deploying what we term 'Englishization policy distraction' in the internationalization of higher education as both a theoretical and analytical concept, this paper frames and examines how the epistemic violence of internationalization of the HE is bypassed and invisibilized through Englishization policy and English medium education in Saudi…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Planning
Puskar R. Joshi; Zohreh R. Eslami – Cogent Education, 2024
Despite Nepal's huge linguistic diversity, maintaining minority languages and providing the mother tongue-based education to non-dominant language children are Nepal's two major obstacles. Scholars have pointed to a negative consequence of the standard language ideology on non-dominant language maintenance and mother tongue-based schooling. Using…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Minorities, Multilingualism, Native Language
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
Ashraf, Hina – Language Policy, 2023
Pakistan, one of the eight countries comprising South Asia, has more than 212.2 million people, making it the world's fifth most populous country after China, India, USA, and Indonesia. It has also the world's second-largest Muslim population. Eberhard et al. (Ethnologue: languages of the world, SIL International, 2020) report 77 languages used by…
Descriptors: Language Role, Urdu, Muslims, English (Second Language)