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Jean W. LeLoup; Barbara C. Schmidt-Rinehart – NECTFL Review, 2025
This article reports the findings of a study undertaken to document and explain the use of English in signage in Costa Rica, a Spanish-speaking country. The linguistic landscape has emerged as an important, viable field of research. In order to investigate how, when, and why the use of English manifests itself, a corpus of 169 photographs of signs…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Language Usage, Language Role, English (Second Language)
Hui Wang; Anikó Hatoss – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2024
The study of language maintenance and shift (LMS) has attracted a large body of empirical work in language policy and planning (LPP) contexts, including allochthonous (immigrant) and autochthonous (indigenous) languages. However, some critical ontological questions that relate to the scope and terminology of language maintenance studies remain…
Descriptors: Native Language, Language Maintenance, Language Planning, Language Skill Attrition
Laila Mobarak Alhazmi – SAGE Open, 2024
This study is the first to explore language attitudes of the endangered Faifi language in SA. Understanding these attitudes is crucial for future language revitalization efforts. Employing a conceptual framework from LA research, data were collected via an online Arabic questionnaire with a sample of 258 participants. This paper aims to explore…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Language Skill Attrition, Arabic, Language Usage
Albert Weideman – Educational Linguistics, 2024
This book adopts as conceptual focus the technical mode of experience, exploring this characteristic mode of design as the angle from which the discipline of applied linguistics takes its cue. What makes applied linguistic concept formation possible? A number of elementary concepts and ideas are so basic to the discipline that they can neither be…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Linguistic Theory, Language Research, Instructional Design
Gorter, Durk; Cenoz, Jasone – Multilingual Matters, 2023
Language is on display all around us, all the time, and the study of this linguistic landscape is one of the fastest-growing areas of research in applied linguistics. This book provides an overview of how the field of Linguistic Landscape Studies has emerged and developed over the past 20 years, combined with an in-depth exploration of the…
Descriptors: Linguistics, Language Research, Linguistic Theory, Research Methodology
Maxime Van Raemdonck; Robyn Tyler; Piet Van Avermaet; Wendelien Vantieghem – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2024
Over the past two decades, heightened migration has increased linguistic diversity in schools. For schools to cope with this multilingualism, many governments impose a monolingual policy where only the language of instruction is allowed. Although many schools adopt such a policy, the classroom practices may differ since multilingual students often…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Educational Policy, Monolingualism, Secondary School Students
Manan, Syed Abdul; Haidar, Sham; Amin, Rooh UI – Language and Education, 2023
This study demonstrates how stakeholders' treatment of English language as the sole marketable/saleable commodity in educational setting can have implications for multilingualism and existing linguistic diversity in Pakistan. Language commodification refers to the valuation of languages as marketable/saleable commodities and their relative…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Language Planning, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Sarah Shulist; Tania Granadillo – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2022
Linguistic and anthropological research has demonstrated that language ideologies play a complex role in contexts of language endangerment, as well as in revitalization initiatives. In this paper, we articulate some central ways in which these beliefs and interests can translate into significant barriers to successful language revitalization.…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Language Attitudes, Language Research, Documentation
Dolowy-Rybinska, Nicole; Ratajczak, Cordula – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2021
The article studies minority language policy in the situation of an internal division within a speech community. It is based on the example of the Upper Sorbs -- a Slavic minority in Germany. The division within this community is based on language use, the level of assimilation and religion. The Catholic Upper Sorbs have maintained…
Descriptors: German, Bilingual Education, Language Planning, Slavic Languages
Chen Zhang; Ronghui Zhao; Yan Huang – SAGE Open, 2025
Language legislation, given its importance in language rights, has received increasing attention over the past decades. This study offers a comprehensive bibliometric analysis of the literature on language legislation from 2005 to 2023. By utilizing VOSViewer and CiteSpace, we have visualized and analyzed the scientific outputs, intellectual…
Descriptors: Language Research, Legislation, Educational Trends, Bibliometrics
Comajoan-Colomé, Llorenç; Coronel-Molina, Serafín M. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2021
In this introduction, we offer an overview of language revitalisation (LR) as a transdisciplinary field and its connections to related disciplines. We outline its evolution from its origins, current directions, and possible future moves. In the last section, we introduce each of the articles in the special issue as they relate to three current…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Interdisciplinary Approach, Futures (of Society), Researchers
De Costa, Peter I.; Park, Joseph Sung-Yul; Wee, Lionel – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2021
This introduction builds on De Costa et al.'s (2016], [2019) notion of linguistic entrepreneurship, which is defined as "the act of aligning with the moral imperative to strategically exploit language-related resources for enhancing one's worth in the world" (2016: 696). The four empirical studies and two critical commentaries that…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Applied Linguistics, Language Planning, Neoliberalism
Guerrero-Nieto, Carmen Helena; Quintero-Polo, Álvaro Hernán – HOW, 2021
This article presents our narration of the emergence and development of a research area about the teaching and learning of the English language in Colombia and the creation of a research group named Critical Studies of Colombian Education Policies. The narration includes a description of the bilingual education policy in Colombia and a literature…
Descriptors: Language of Instruction, Educational Policy, Policy Analysis, English (Second Language)
Shepherd, Elizabeth; McEntee-Atalianis, Lisa – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2021
This paper contributes to recent discussions of levels of agency in Language Policy and Planning (LPP) research. It specifically aims to understand the role and importance of meso-level actors as arbiters of policy implementation. It argues that, whilst understanding of both macro- and micro-agency has grown over the past decade, little is…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Policy Analysis, Language Planning, Language Research
Brown, Kara D.; Faster, Mariko – FIRE: Forum for International Research in Education, 2019
This article considers the circuitous route of knowledge exchange from South (New Zealand)-to North (Finland)-to regional South (Estonia) by examining the development of Võro language nests ("keelepesä") in Estonia. Language nests reflect the global nature of educational knowledge exchange as well as the importance of networks of…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Foreign Countries, Networks, Language Research