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Suryanarayan, Neelakshi – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2017
The present paper is a case study of how the commodification of the Russian language has transformed a market in New Delhi, India, inaugurated in 1969 and known as Yashwant Place. Over the years, the market slowly assumed a new identity, referred to as Yashka not only by Russian visitors but also tourists from countries of the former Soviet Union,…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Commercialization, Russian, Ethnography
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Willans, Fiona – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2011
English and French have been retained by Vanuatu's education system as the two media of instruction. Other languages are ignored and often explicitly banned by school policies. However, code-switching between the official and other languages is common, with particularly frequent use of Bislama, the national dialect of Melanesian Pidgin. While it…
Descriptors: Language Planning, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Code Switching (Language)