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Zhou, Minglang – Bilingual Research Journal, 2001
From 1949 to 1957, the Chinese Communist Party's language policy took a pluralistic approach. A Chinese-monopolistic language policy was dominant, 1958-77. A pluralistic approach was again adopted from 1977 to the present. The Chinese experience illustrates how language minorities everywhere must balance maintaining their home language with…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Educational History, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education
Diatchkova, Galina – 2002
In the first half of the 20th century, the social functions of the indigenous languages in Chukotka, in northeast Asia, increased due to the development of written languages, local press, and broadcasting on radio and television. From 1933 to 1989, the local press of indigenous peoples in Chukotka was used for Communist Party propaganda. However,…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Asian History, Boarding Schools, Communism
Lyman, Rollo LaVerne – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1922
English grammar, as a formal subject, distinct from other branches of instruction in the vernacular, made but sporadic appearances in the American schools before 1775. After the Revolution its rise was extremely rapid. English grammar gained momentum as the hold of Latin grammar weakened, and by the end of the first quarter of the nineteenth…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Conflict, Writing (Composition), Language of Instruction
Reagan, Timothy – 1988
The "language struggle" has been a focus of disagreement throughout South Africa's educational history. In contemporary South Africa, the issue of the language used as a medium of instruction has been most controversial in black education, where the government's policy of initial native language instruction has been widely denounced as…
Descriptors: Afrikaans, Bilingualism, Black Education, Colonialism