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Fuentes, Ronald; Soler, Inmaculada Gómez – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2023
Drawing on in-depth qualitative interviews, we examine Spanish language instructors' interpretation and appropriation of gender-inclusive language (GIL) policy at a U.S. university. Policy appropriation is represented as a spectrum with varying degrees of policy rejection, avoidance, and engagement across and within participants. Policy rejection…
Descriptors: Gender Issues, Spanish, Language Teachers, Inclusion
Cruz Arcila, Ferney – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2018
Drawing on a study of English language teachers' practices and identities in rural Colombia at a time of active education policy promoting English, this paper reports on how such policy has been "interpreted" and "translated" in rural schools. Informed mainly by the theory of policy enactment [Ball, S. J., Maguire, M., &…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
Yessenbekova, Kymbat – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2023
In the era of the globalization of the English language, Kazakhstan has strategically implemented English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI) in higher education. Accordingly, the aim of this study was to explore teachers' and students' perceptions of their EMI experiences, focusing on the interplay between language management (LM), language…
Descriptors: Language of Instruction, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, College Faculty
Jonathan Hancock; Andy Hancock – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2024
This article reports on a national survey of complementary school providers in Scotland to gain insights into their perspectives of the abrupt transition to online learning spaces during the COVID-19 pandemic. Data gathered from a questionnaire (n=34) and in-depth interviews (n=13) covering 19 different heritage languages are analysed through the…
Descriptors: Native Language, Second Language Learning, COVID-19, Pandemics
Alkhateeb, Hadeel; Alshaboul, Yousef – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2022
Through Q methodology, this study explores teachers' understanding of the importance of their students' mother tongue(s) in ensuring meaningful, effective learning in Qatar's international English-medium primary schools. It considers the extent to which teachers believe that their students' linguistic backgrounds are affirmed and promoted. The…
Descriptors: Native Language, Language of Instruction, Language Usage, English (Second Language)
Hult, Francis M.; Källkvist, Marie – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2016
In this paper, the language policies of three Swedish universities are examined as instances of language planning in local contexts. Although Sweden has the national Language Act of 2009 (SFS 2009:600) as well as a general Higher Education Ordinance (SFS 1993:100; SFS 2014:1096), language planning for higher education is left to the purview of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Usage, Language Planning, Educational Policy
Alkhateeb, Hadeel; Al Hamad, Muntasir; Mustafawi, Eiman – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2020
Qatar University is currently at a crossroads, having to respond to competing institutional, national, and international language policy issues. This paper aims to reveal how Qatar University's internal and external stakeholders perceive the future directions of the university's language in education policy. In particular, through Q-methodology,…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Q Methodology, Semitic Languages, English (Second Language)
Nguyen, Trang Thi Thuy; Hamid, M. Obaidul – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2018
This article examines a group of Vietnamese ethnic minority students' language attitudes towards formal and informal language policies of the domains of school, church and ethnic community and towards their individual bilingualism. Multiple semi-structured interviews with eight college-age minority students are used as the main source of the data.…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Vietnamese, Vietnamese People, Minority Group Students
Wildsmith-Cromarty, R.; Turner, N. – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2018
The University of KwaZulu-Natal has a bilingual language policy (2006) where students may receive instruction in isiZulu as well as in English. An online survey was carried out for all academic and support staff to gauge their linguistic capacity in isiZulu. Staff profiles were created in relation to their respective Colleges, Schools and…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Language of Instruction, School Policy, African Languages
Avni, Sharon – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2012
This article examines how students and teachers at a non-Orthodox Jewish day school in New York City negotiate the use of translation within the context of an institutionalized language policy that stresses the use of a sacred language over that of the vernacular. Specifically, this paper analyzes the negotiation of a Hebrew-only policy through…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Language Planning, Jews, Day Schools