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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
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
Lee, Cher Leng; Phua, Chiew Pheng – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2023
Singapore is a multiracial nation with a majority ethnic Chinese population. Since its independence in 1965, it has adopted an 'English-knowing' bilingual policy to achieve economic, social, and political objectives. For the past two decades, there has been a rapid increase in the percentage of ethnic Chinese Primary One students coming from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction, Mandarin Chinese, Uncommonly Taught Languages
Racialization and English Learning: The Experiences of Nepali Secondary School Students in Hong Kong
Gong, Yang; Thapa, Chura Bahadur; Gao, Xuesong – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2023
This paper reports on an inquiry that explored how a group of Nepali secondary school students discursively reconstructed and interpreted their English learning in Hong Kong. In the study we collected data from 30 participants through participatory observation, in-depth unstructured interview and taking field notes in two secondary schools. The…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Native Language
Mackenzie, Lee – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2022
This article critically analyses the extent to which research in the field of English and development in the global South supports the claim that English can contribute to development. Particular reference is made to the Colombian context, which, along with several other countries in Latin America, has prioritised English language teaching in…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Language Planning
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)
Hyunjin Jinna Kim; Tuba Yilmaz; Yong-Jik Lee – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2024
As global migration and transnational mobility have increased steadily in the recent few decades, interests in equity-based theories and pedagogies have intensified to respond to racially and linguistically diverse student needs in today's classrooms. Raciolinguistic ideology is a theoretical framework challenging monoglossic language ideologies…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Race, Language Attitudes, Teaching Methods
Mandic, Marija; Rácz, Krisztina – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2023
This article explores Yugoslav education policy in Vojvodina (Serbia), one of the most multilingual regions of the country, which was implemented in the period between the 1960s and 1980s through the school subject the 'Language of social environment' (LSE). Based on archival and field research, this case study is devoted to the school subject…
Descriptors: Hungarian, Serbocroatian, Native Language, Second Language Learning
Liu, Yuying – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2022
Despite the increasing popularity of Chinese and the recognition of the growing commodifying ideology of Chinese language in many contexts [Liu, Y., & Gao, X. (2020). Commodification of the Chinese language: Investigating language ideology in the Irish media. "Current Issues in Language Planning," 21(5), 512-531.…
Descriptors: Commercialization, Community Schools, Language Attitudes, Immigrants
Nordstrom, Janica; Jung, Yong Moon – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2022
This study explores community language school teachers' access to classroom resources and school facilities within a framework of educational equity. Community language schools are significant language education providers that exist worldwide. In Australia, as elsewhere in the world, these schools often borrow a classroom at a mainstream school to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Community Schools, Equal Education, Second Language Learning
Sung, Chit Cheung Matthew – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2022
This paper investigates the language ideologies held by a group of international students in an English medium instruction (EMI) university in multilingual Hong Kong. The findings indicate that the participants' beliefs about English extend beyond its role as an instructional medium and encompass its use as a lingua franca and as a means of social…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language of Instruction
Wei, Chang; Gu, Mingyue Michelle; Jiang, Lianjiang – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2022
Drawing on semi-structured interviews with six Chinese migrant families with children aged 12-15 years old, this qualitative study uses a Bourdieusian lens to probe how the historically lived and migration experiences of Chinese internal migrant parents construct their paradoxical beliefs in children's English learning and informs their family…
Descriptors: Family Relationship, Language Usage, Native Language, Second Language Learning
Wilson, George – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2023
This article compares the immersion-education systems in Brittany and Wales. The number of Welsh speakers is growing thanks to its well-developed immersion-education system. Brittany has a much less well-developed system and the number of Breton speakers is falling dramatically. Urgent action is needed if Breton is to survive. Using an approach…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, Welsh, Comparative Education, Foreign Countries
Noda, Mamiko; O'Regan, John P. – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2020
This article focuses upon the Japanese government's decision in 2009 to direct an 'English-only' strategy for English language education in senior high schools from 2013. In the "Course of Study 2009," and more recently again in the "Course of Study 2018," the Japanese government implicitly blames the local grammar-translation…
Descriptors: Native Language, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Hancock, Andy; Hancock, Jonathan – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2021
The Scottish Government's ambitious 1 + 2 Language Strategy has refocused attention on language education policy (LEP) and the provision for learning additional languages in Scottish schools. However, the maintenance of community languages continues to be the responsibility of minoritised parents and their complementary schools. This article…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Language Planning, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction