NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Audience
Laws, Policies, & Programs
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Showing 1 to 15 of 37 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Zettl, Evamaria – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2023
This study analyses practices regarding home languages in a nursery school from a multilingual district in Germany, and the language policies and discourses that become visible in these. First, the context is outlined of Early Childhood Education and Care for multilingual children in Germany; then, the concepts of practices, discourses and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschools, Native Language, Family Environment
Van Oss, Victoria; Vantieghem, Wendelien; Struys, Esli; Van Avermaet, Piet – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2023
Whereas early childhood professionals can play a pivotal role in fostering young children's home language development, little is known about what determines the kind of multilingual parenting advice they offer families. The objective of this study was to deconstruct the processes culminating in two types of such recommendations: "advice…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Educational Policy, Early Childhood Education, Early Childhood Teachers
Kai Zhu; Shanhua He – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2025
This study investigates the language ideologies manifested in the linguistic hierarchies produced by relevant EU governmental/political institutions through their language requirements for visa application documents. Based on the theoretical framework of Language Management Theory (LMT), this study employs a mixed-methods approach, combining…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Planning, Public Policy, Native Language
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Fethi Helal – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2024
Taking a multi-level perspective on language-in-public-space policy, this study investigates the way Tunisia's dominant languages are dealt with in three independent but interrelated activities of language policy: official texts, public talk, and the actual practices of business actors in five commercial districts in metropolitan Tunis. Detailed…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Native Language, Second Language Learning, Language Usage
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Begum, Nusrat; Sinha, Sweta – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2023
Linguistic landscaping (LL) is an emerging field of Sociolinguistics exploring the language in its textual form in public sphere. This paper investigates the visibility and prominence of languages in the public space of Patna, the capital city of Bihar, India. A total of 10 city neighborhoods are chosen for the study. The corpus of the study is…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Neighborhoods, Signs, Language Planning
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Tibor Toró – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
In Romania most Hungarian-speaking children study in their mother tongue, in Hungarian-language classes. Some of these are organised in 'mixed schools', where parallel Hungarian and Romanian classes coexist in the same institution. Although these institutions seem a good solution for inter-ethnic coexistence, no systematic research has been…
Descriptors: Hungarian, Romance Languages, Native Language, Language of Instruction
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Gao, Yang; Zeng, Gang – Cogent Education, 2021
National language planning and family language planning may converge or diverge. As 2019 marks the 70th anniversary of the establishment of the new China, we examined language planning at both the national level and the family level in China. We first revisited language policy and planning in China over the last seventy years through a policy…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Family Relationship, Language Planning, Comparative Analysis
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Kircher, Ruth – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
The study presented here is the first empirical investigation of the patterns and predictors of the intergenerational transmission of French in Quebec. An online questionnaire was used to gather data from 274 parents from different mother tongue (L1) groups: L1 French, L1 English, L1 French and English, and L1 Other. The results show that L1…
Descriptors: Language Planning, French, Parent Attitudes, Native Language
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Begum, Nusrat; Sinha, Sweta – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2021
Linguistic landscaping is an emerging field of sociolinguistics exploring language in its textual form in the public sphere. Studies on Linguistic Landscape (LL) can be used as a tool to interpret language vitality in a given territory. The present study investigates visibility and vitality of languages in public space of Bihta, an upcoming…
Descriptors: Native Language, Language Attitudes, Signs, Language Planning
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Fessha, Yonatan T. – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2022
The protection of language rights and linguistic groups is the cornerstone of the constitutional dispensation that Ethiopian has embarked upon almost two decades ago. The constitution declares that all Ethiopian language shall enjoy equal state recognition and allows for regional preference in language use. This article examines the laws and…
Descriptors: Social Integration, Civil Rights, Language Minorities, Cultural Pluralism
John W. Derks – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Do assimilationist restrictions on a minority language lead to greater national unity or a more rebellious minority population? Under what conditions might short-term backlash to language assimilation evolve into greater national unity in the long term? While much of the literature on ethnic politics implicitly treats language simply as an…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Cost Effectiveness, Acculturation, Political Influences
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
McLachlan, Kathryn; Essien, Anthony A. – Pythagoras, 2022
This article presents a systematic review of research on language and multilingualism in mathematics education published in the South African journal Pythagoras from 1994 to 2021. This time frame was chosen as the year 1994 marked the acknowledgement of 11 official languages in the new democratic South Africa (including 9 indigenous languages),…
Descriptors: Language of Instruction, Multilingualism, Mathematics Education, Periodicals
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Khan, Muhammad Asim; Zaki, Sajida – SAGE Open, 2022
Language education policies contain discourses that have language ideologies embedded within them. This study explores the language ideologies in official language education policy documents of Pakistan from 2000 to 2020. Using Corpus Assisted Critical Discourse Analysis techniques, a 1.28 million-word-corpus was generated from 32 policy documents…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Peltz, Rakhmiel – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2017
In the contemporary world, language, at the heart of all human communication, has experienced social change in new ways. Previously distant groups communicate with each other both because of new migrations and as a result of the use of the Internet and digital media. Intimate communication has been shaken to the core as a result of screen usage on…
Descriptors: Activism, Multilingualism, Foreign Countries, Language Maintenance
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Tupas, Ruanni – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2015
This paper maps out the linguistic history of nation-building in the Philippines through the politics of "p" and "f" in the country. This politics concerns the various strategic acts of naming the national language at different periods of the country's history that have shaped its fate as the most hegemonic indigenous…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Official Languages, Native Language, Language Planning
Previous Page | Next Page »
Pages: 1  |  2  |  3