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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
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)
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
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
Savski, Kristof – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2023
One of the products of globalization in sociolinguistics is the emergence of transnational regimes in language policy, in which power is exercised across boundaries of traditional nation states. This paper engages with audit culture, a transnational policy mechanism which involves the continuous evaluation of nation states' performance through the…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Language Attitudes, Language Proficiency, English (Second Language)
Noda, Mamiko; O'Regan, John P. – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2020
This article focuses upon the Japanese government's decision in 2009 to direct an 'English-only' strategy for English language education in senior high schools from 2013. In the "Course of Study 2009," and more recently again in the "Course of Study 2018," the Japanese government implicitly blames the local grammar-translation…
Descriptors: Native Language, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Yusra, Kamaludin; Lestari, Yuni Budi; Hamid, M. Obaidul – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2022
Tourism is a service industry that demands well-trained professionals with internationally accredited skills including English language proficiency. Meeting such demands has been one of the foremost concerns of the ASEAN ministries of tourism and education. In collaboration with ASEAN member countries and the Australian government, Indonesian…
Descriptors: Rating Scales, Guidelines, Tourism, Hospitality Occupations
Gu, Mingyue Michelle; Han, Yawen – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2021
This qualitative study investigates the process of family language policy and planning among a group of immigrant mothers with south Asian backgrounds in Hong Kong, and explores the underlying cultural, socio-political and ideological reasons. Moving beyond a discrete analysis of family language policy within the home context to incorporate…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Family Relationship, Educational Experience, Immigrants
Schornack, Miranda Lee; Karlsson, A. – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2021
Speakers of languages other than English are positioned as problems within education systems and 'low' academic English proficiency is viewed as something to be fixed. Alternative education programs are typically viewed as punitive, substandard, exclusionary academic settings. Therefore, speakers of languages other than English (ELs) enrolled in…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Nontraditional Education
Yevudey, Elvis; Agbozo, G. Edzordzi – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2019
This paper explores, at the micro level, the sociolinguistic backgrounds of teacher trainees in a College of Education in Accra and their perceptions toward Ghana's current language-in-education policy. It aims at finding how these micro-level sociolinguistic insights could provide suggestions for language-in-education policies at the macro level.…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Language of Instruction, Educational Policy, Teacher Education Programs
Ball, Jessica; Smith, Mariam – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2023
Multilingual education (MLE) is increasingly recognized as a means to ensure equitable access to education for children with a nondominant first language and to retain endangered languages. UNESCO has championed MLE and identified 10 essential components in planning implementation of MLE implementation. This article examines these 10 components in…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Language of Instruction, Multilingualism, Foreign Countries
Moore, Paul J.; Harrington, Michael – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2016
Policy-makers and practitioners in Australian higher education increasingly view English language proficiency (ELP) as a tripartite construct consisting of English proficiency for academic study, interpersonal communication, and more recently, the workplace. This paper examines this assumption and identifies the significant implications it has for…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency, Foreign Countries
Nguyen, Lan Chi; Hamid, M. Obaidul; Renshaw, Peter – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2016
Although the teaching of English as a foreign language in primary schools has emerged as one of the major language-in-education policy decisions, students' perspectives on primary English have received very little research attention. Drawing on data from a larger study, this paper depicts primary school students' lived experiences in the English…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language of Instruction, Educational Policy
Chin Leong, Patrick N. G. – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2017
English-medium instruction (EMI) is gaining momentum in Japan as politicians constantly highlight the need for Japanese universities to cultivate students with English skills to participate in the global market. Adopting a framework on the failure of policy implementation [Schiffman, H. (2007). Tamil language policy in Singapore. The role of…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language of Instruction, Language Planning
Wildsmith-Cromarty, R.; Turner, N. – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2018
The University of KwaZulu-Natal has a bilingual language policy (2006) where students may receive instruction in isiZulu as well as in English. An online survey was carried out for all academic and support staff to gauge their linguistic capacity in isiZulu. Staff profiles were created in relation to their respective Colleges, Schools and…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Language of Instruction, School Policy, African Languages
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