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Albert Weideman – Educational Linguistics, 2024
The notion of validity encapsulates the echo of the physical within the technical. The technical force of a language course, test or plan needs to be evaluated for its effects. On the norm side, this yields a design principle that asks whether the design is adequate, and can be validated. That kind of technical validation is perhaps most prominent…
Descriptors: Validity, Second Language Instruction, Courses, Language Tests
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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
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Dongil Shin – Language Testing, 2024
This paper addresses the intersection of testing and policy, situating test-driven impact and validation within the context of policy-led educational reform in Korea. I will briefly review the existing validation models. Then, arguing for an expansion of the conventional conceptualization of consequential validity research, I use Fairclough's…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Discourse Analysis, Test Validity, Educational Change
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Albert Weideman – Educational Linguistics, 2024
Though our technical imagination is not restricted to the aesthetic, analogies of the latter in the former do give pause to consider anew the role of creativity and invention in language intervention design. On the norm side, aesthetic anticipations in the technical sphere appeal to the designers of language interventions to bring their solutions…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Aesthetics
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
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Quynh Thi Ngoc Nguyen; Susan Sheehan; Chi Thi Nguyen; Hoa Quynh Nguyen; Thao Thi Phuong Nguyen; Thuy Thai; Yen Thi Quynh Nguyen; Hien Thi Thu Tran; Sao Bui – PASAA: Journal of Language Teaching and Learning in Thailand, 2023
Context has been recognized to exert a significant influence on language policy and planning (e.g., Cross, 2009; Gorsuch, 2000; Köksal & Sahin, 2012) as well as on teachers' decisions in the field of English language teaching and assessment (e.g., Fulmer et al., 2015; Shulman & Shulman, 2004). However, research on the interface among…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
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Arias, Angel; Vessey, Rachelle; Sheyholislami, Jaffer – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2022
Language assessment for citizenship is a ubiquitous enforced and enacted policy in several developed countries (e.g., Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and the Netherlands, to name a few). In this regard, language testers have expressly argued that this practice enacts injustice for and adds hurdles to marginalized…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immigration, Immigrants, Citizenship
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Callahan, Rebecca; Gautsch, Leslie; Hopkins, Megan; Carmen Unda, Maria Del – Educational Policy, 2022
With the 2015 passage of the "Every Student Succeeds Act" (ESSA), the oversight of language policy in U.S. schools shifted from federal to state governance. Although the education of students officially designated as English learners (ELs) has historically been grounded in federal law, we argue that ELs' educational experiences are also…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, English Language Learners, Immigrants, Social Attitudes
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Kudriavtseva, Natalia – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2021
In this study on language ideologies and multilingualism in Ukraine, I start from Geeraerts approach, which identifies two cultural models of linguistic standardisation: rationalist and romantic. Drawing on this typology, I show that the present-day ideology is a largely distorted version of the romantic model that transforms into linguistic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Native Language, Russian, Language of Instruction
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Smith, Michael D. – Educational Policy, 2022
In Japan, neoliberal discourses rationalize English language proficiency as a pathway to meritocratic reward and success in the global knowledge economy. With this ideology in mind, this review engages the market orientation of English domestically and the causative implications of class-distinguished capital. Specifically, Bourdieu's theory of…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Lee, Lung-Sheng – Online Submission, 2021
Taiwan's central government launched the 2030 Bilingual National Policy in 2018 to develop Taiwan into a Mandarin-English bilingual nation by 2030. It is anticipated that the chain of talent development--education, selection, training, and utilization--should interlock with each other to effectively reach the goal. Being in charge of national…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Talent Development, Bilingual Education, Mandarin Chinese
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Deygers, Bart; Bigelow, Martha; Lo Bianco, Joseph; Nadarajan, Darshini; Tani, Massimiliano – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2021
This paper constitutes an edited transcript of two online panels, conducted with four scholars whose complementary expertise regarding print literacy and migration offers a thought-provoking and innovative window on the representation of print literacy in applied linguistic research and in migration policy. The panel members are experts on…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Printed Materials, Literacy, Migration
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Yoel, Judith – Journal of English as an International Language, 2020
This research examines the visibility of English in the schoolscape of two Israeli teacher training colleges. English in Israel is part of a complex, multilingual reality. Not an official language, it carries prestige and is common in media, commerce, industry, and science. In higher education, its presence, however, is limited, despite being a…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Im, Gwan-Hyeok; Shin, Dongil; Park, Soohyeon – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2022
This study suggests a conceptual framework for policy-driven test development and validation, using the Test of Proficiency in Korean (TOPIK) as an example context. By linking the literature on policy analysis and argument structure in the validation of testing, the strong relationships between policy and testing are illustrated. This rationalizes…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Language Tests, Korean, Test Construction
Al-Issa, Ali S. M. – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2020
This paper examines the language planning situation in the Sultanate of Oman with emphasis on the planning of Arabic, English, French and German, and their choice and spread in serving different interests and purposes. The paper explores the historical, social, political, and ideological processes and complexities of the language policy and…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Semitic Languages, English (Second Language), French
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