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Taylor-Leech, Kerry – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2013
Timor-Leste offers a rich case study of the array of discursive influences on medium-of-instruction (MOI) policy in multilingual, post-colonial developing contexts. MOI policy in this young nation is a site of tension between struggles to define national identity in the shadow of colonial language ideologies and the globalised discourses of…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Ideology, Multilingualism, Language of Instruction
Ng, Chin Leong Patrick – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2014
In 1966, the Singapore Government implemented the English-knowing bilingual policy which made it mandatory for all Chinese students to study English as a "First Language" and the Chinese language (CL) as a "Mother Tongue Language" in Singapore schools. Using key literature relevant to Singapore's bilingual educational policy…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Native Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Chinese
Novak Lukanovic, Sonja; Limon, David – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2014
The two different models of bilingual/multilingual education that have been developed in Slovenia since the 1950s in the regions of Prekmurje (minority language Hungarian) and Slovene Istria (Italian) are the result of international agreements, education and language policies, social and demographic factors. The basic aim in both cases is to help…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Educational History, Educational Development, Educational Policy
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May, Stephen – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2003
While advocacy of minority language rights (MLR) has become well established in sociolinguistics, language policy and planning and the wider human rights literature, it has also come under increased criticism in recent times for a number of key limitations. In this paper, I address directly three current key criticisms of the MLR movement. The…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Civil Rights, Criticism, Language Minorities