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Direct linkCriss, Marika K. – Language Policy, 2021
Although national and EU policies and recommendations encourage varied language learning, English has ruled as the most studied foreign language, while other languages are decreasingly being studied in basic and upper secondary education in Finland. The purpose of this paper is to examine the implications of this development in practice.…
Descriptors: Marketing, Finno Ugric Languages, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Loh, Elizabeth K. Y.; Tam, Loretta C. W.; Lau, Kwok-chang – Language Policy, 2019
This article explores the extent to which the medium of instruction (MOI) policy in Hong Kong affect ethnic minority students' Chinese language learning in school amidst postcolonial policy changes, and how the "flexible" MOI policy affects Chinese as a second language (CSL) frontline teaching in mainstream secondary schools with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Planning, Language of Instruction, Second Language Instruction
Heiman, Daniel; Nuñez-Janes, Mariela – Language Policy, 2021
Two-way Bilingual Education (TWBE) programs are currently experiencing gentrification processes that are displacing the original beneficiaries of these programs. These gentrification processes have led to a whitening of bilingual education (Flores and García in Ann Rev Appl Linguist, 37:14-29, 2017) marked by inequities and the dangerous potential…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Activism, Bilingual Education, Whites
Malsbary, Christine Brigid; Appelgate, Mollie H. – Language Policy, 2016
This case study describes how a beginning teacher struggled to meet her students' needs in an ESL classroom. Her struggle demonstrated the interrelated nature of policy and practice: Policy effects in her school isolated her and made her feel solely responsible for the achievement of her newly arrived English-learning (EL) students. Her case…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers, Beginning Teachers
Indigenous Language Education Policy: Supporting Community-Controlled Immersion in Canada and the US
De Korne, Haley – Language Policy, 2010
The vitality of most Indigenous languages in North America, like minority languages in many parts of the world, is at risk due to the pressures of majority languages and cultures. The transmission of Indigenous languages through school-based programs is a wide-spread approach to maintaining and revitalizing threatened languages in Canada and the…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Public Schools, Bilingual Education, Community Control
Seargeant, Philip – Language Policy, 2008
This paper examines the ideologies of language which underpin mainstream applied linguistic research and educational policy generation for English language teaching in Japan. Over the last 30 years a burgeoning literature has devoted itself to the task of researching and directing English language education in Japan, but has, by its own admission,…
Descriptors: Language Research, Applied Linguistics, Ideology, Foreign Countries
