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Lin Chen; Danping Wang – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2024
The field of language policy and planning has seen increasing scholarly attention that explores social actors' micro language planning towards a given language policy situation at the grassroots level. In educational contexts, teachers and educators are often considered pivotal locals whose agency, when enacted in micro language planning, can…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Heritage Education, Mandarin Chinese, Native Language
Hajisoteriou, Christina; Angelides, Panayiotis – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2017
The main goal of this study is to examine the barriers and prospects of intercultural education in Cypriot schools of the southern part of the island with regard to not only learning the language of the reception country, but also the language of origin. Taking this as the point of departure, this study aims to explore the content and goals of…
Descriptors: Barriers, Multicultural Education, Immigrants, Acculturation
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Abongdia, Jane-Francis A.; Willans, Fiona – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2014
This paper investigates language ideologies relevant to medium of instruction policy within two postcolonial countries: Cameroon and Vanuatu. Each country experienced British and French rule, and has retained both English and French as official languages and media of instruction. However, since Independence, there has been a difference in the way…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Attitudes, Second Language Learning, Educational Policy