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First Language Loss: Reflex Responses, Repartee, and Sound Symbolism.
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Waas, Margit – Language Problems and Language Planning, 1997
Examines a sociolinguistic thesis on language attrition illustrating first-language (L1) loss in a second-language (L2) environment via interviews conducted with two control groups and L1 German speakers living in Australia. Findings reveal that after 10 to 20 years in the L2 environment, the extent of L1 attrition was such that none of the…
Descriptors: Adults, Control Groups, English (Second Language), German
A Sociological Study of Second Language Diffusion: The Obstacles to Arabic Teaching in the Israeli School.
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Ben-Rafael, Eliezer; Brosh, Hezi – Language Problems and Language Planning, 1991
Three sociolinguistic perspectives are considered in a study focusing on the rationale of Israeli linguistic policy toward Arabic. These include (1) school language programs as a matter of linguistic policies of political centers; (2) the relationship of linguistic resources to group boundaries (principally ethnicity); and (3) language resources…
Descriptors: Arabic, Educational Policy, Ethnicity, Foreign Countries
Sociocultural Factors in the Revival of Hebrew.
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Nahir, Moshe – Language Problems and Language Planning, 1983
Major background sociocultural factors in the revival of Hebrew as Israel's vernacular during the period 1890-1916 are examined. These include communicative, national-political, and religioeducational factors leading to an unprecedented community acceptance of an unfamiliar spoken language and its use by new generations of native speakers. (MSE)
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Ethnicity, Hebrew, Language Maintenance
A Systems Approach to Language Planning: The Case of Namibia.
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de V. Cluver, August – Language Problems and Language Planning, 1991
Discusses the independent Namibian government's goal of making English (currently the mother tongue of less than 5 percent of the population) the official language to unite various race and speech communities into one national entity, and proposes a systems approach to enable language planners to see the relationships between plans and other…
Descriptors: Afrikaans, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Language Attitudes
English Departments at Arab Universities: Toward a "Planning-Based Model."
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Abuhamdia, Zakaria A. – Language Problems and Language Planning, 1984
Argues that problems with English as second language programs in Arab world stem from failures in policy planning, rather than from failures of implementation of these plans. Some crucial considerations previously ignored are sociolinguistic setting of the foreign (English) language and fit between department goals, programs, and curricula on the…
Descriptors: Arabs, College Curriculum, Cultural Awareness, Educational Policy
The Delayed Impact: Postcolonial Language Problems in the French Overseas Territory Wallis and Futuna (Central Polynesia).
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Rensch, Karl H. – Language Problems and Language Planning, 1990
Describes two major events--mass migration to New Caledonia in the 1950s and the conversion from a protectorate to a French overseas territory in 1961--that have confronted Wallis and Futuna (Central Polynesia) with the same sociolinguistic problems that have beset other Pacific islands for decades. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Culture Contact, English, Foreign Countries, French