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Murray, Clíona; Lynch, Andrea; Flynn, Niamh; Davitt, Emer – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2023
In newly multilingual communities, where the language of education can no longer be assumed to be the home language of students, debates around language education policy can reflect broader sociocultural and political assumptions. As Ireland has become increasingly diverse in recent decades, the core compulsory status of the Irish language has…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Minorities, Native Language Instruction, Irish
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Karim, Abdul; Islam, Md. Shaiful; Hamid, M. Obaidul; Rahman, Mohammad Mosiur; Amin, Evita Umama – Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2023
The current study aims at unpacking the language ideologies of the STEM + Business graduates in relation to English medium instruction (EMI) and how they perceive the contribution of EMI towards English proficiency development. It also intended to unfold the extent to which EMI education may have contributed to their employability and fulfillment…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language of Instruction, Language Proficiency, Second Language Learning
Shirahata, Mai; Lahti, Malgorzata – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2023
Many universities in non-English speaking countries have been adopting English as a medium of instruction to internationalize their education. We set out to compare the language policies of a Finnish and a Japanese university using the lens of language ideology -- a set of normative beliefs about the social dimension of language. Data were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Language Planning, Educational Policy
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Katie A. Bernstein; Lindsey Brown; Yalda M. Kaveh; Brandon Yuhas; Sepide Pazhouhi – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2025
Language education policy in Arizona has been on a rollercoaster over the last five years. Between 2019 and 2024, the state shifted from strict English-only enforcement to loosening restrictions and encouraging dual language approaches, then back to strict English-only enforcement. In this forum piece, we use approaches from critical discourse…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, State Policy, Superintendents, English Only Movement
Pramod K. Sah – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2025
This article presents the findings of a critical ethnography focused on the English-medium instruction (EMI) policy in Nepal's public schools. Through the analysis of policy documents and interviews with policymakers, the study reveals that policymakers view the EMI policy as a solution to the crisis in public schools by enhancing their…
Descriptors: Language of Instruction, Educational Policy, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Sue E. Gollifer; Hermína Gunnþórsdóttir; Renata Emilsson Peskova – Human Rights Education Review, 2024
As a signatory to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, which has been incorporated into domestic policy, Iceland has a legal obligation to respond to children's linguistic human rights in schools. Increasing language diversity is addressed in both policy and practice, informed by the inclusive education principles that underpin the…
Descriptors: Native Language, Civil Rights, Accountability, Multilingualism
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Stephen Davis – Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics / Revue canadienne de linguistique appliquée, 2024
French immersion (FI) programs are becoming increasingly culturally and linguistically diverse as a result of growing migration to Canada. In the present mixed-methods study, I explore the perspectives and ideologies of teachers, principals, and central office staff in eight school divisions in Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and Alberta with respect to…
Descriptors: Refugees, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Immersion Programs
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Pérez-Izaguirre, Elizabeth; Cenoz, Jasone – Ethnography and Education, 2021
This paper focuses on language ideologies in relation to identity in Basque secondary education, in a context where the teaching of a minority language is part of the curriculum. More precisely, it addresses the views held by teachers and immigrant students in relation to Basque, which is a minority language in the Basque Country. The aim is to…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Language Minorities, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Mendoza, Carlos; Dervin, Fred; Layne, Heidi – Higher Education Research and Development, 2023
Internationalization at home (IaH) policies in higher education institutions (HEIs) are rarely negotiated with and by students. Therefore, students' takes on such policies could be missed opportunities for HEIs. This qualitative study investigates international and local students' negotiations and meaning-making of integration and IaH as stated by…
Descriptors: International Education, Student Attitudes, Foreign Students, Foreign Countries
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Busch, Brigitta – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2021
In the current revival of Gumperz' notion of the "verbal repertoire," which today is rather termed as communicative or semiotic repertoire, some scholars tend to locate repertoires with individual speakers whereas others see them primarily as emerging from particular spatial arrangements. What is often underestimated in both approaches…
Descriptors: Human Body, Self Concept, Semiotics, Interpersonal Communication
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Mazlum, Farhad – Language Policy, 2022
Choosing which additional language to include in national curricula and when to begin teaching it are important educational policy decisions. The current study aims to provide a contextually embedded picture of such policymaking process in the Iranian context. More specifically, the study is intended to explain the agency mechanism of different…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Role, Language Planning
John Albury, Nathan – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2020
This paper revisits the tension in sociolinguistics between the linguistic capital associated with languages of socioeconomic mobility, and the cultural and identity value of local languages. With Malaysia as a case study, the paper shows that although this economy-versus-culture tension may be a go-to ideological paradigm in sociolinguistics for…
Descriptors: Preferences, Language of Instruction, Sociolinguistics, Social Mobility
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Haidar, Sham; Fang, Fan – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2019
This paper explores language ideology, policies and the role of English in Pakistan and China, two countries in which English plays different roles in education. Owing to globalization and communication development, the role of the English language is changing; thus, there is need to change the policies and ideologies surrounding English…
Descriptors: Language of Instruction, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Global Approach
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Sah, Pramod K.; Karki, Jeevan – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2023
This study reports on an investigation into the perspectives of different stakeholders (e.g. administrators, teachers, students, and parents) towards motivations for introducing English as a medium of instruction (EMI) policy in low-resourced public schools, serving minoritized students, and language ideologies that form its practices. Framed…
Descriptors: Advantaged, Language of Instruction, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Ou, Wanyu Amy; Gu, Mingyue Michelle; Hult, Francis M. – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2021
The advancement of English as an instrument for the internationalization of higher education has foregrounded English as an academic lingua franca (EALF), and the case of China is no exception. This study focuses on the process by which EALF has been interpreted and negotiated across university policies and local practices in China's…
Descriptors: Language Planning, International Education, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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