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A Typology of Arguments for and against Bilingual Place-Naming in Aotearoa New Zealand
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Albury, Nathan John; Carter, Lyn – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2017
Naming places is theorised as an activity in heritage whereby a name will index a people's narrative and history. In postcolonial societies where the colonised and the colonisers share spaces, individual locations can host different sides of history and different cultural significance. To this end, the New Zealand government has pursued bilingual…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Language Planning, Biculturalism, English
Free Your Stuff Luxembourg! Language Policies, Practices and Ideologies in a Multilingual Facebook Group
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de Bres, Julia; Belling, Luc – Language Policy, 2015
This article considers the dynamic relationship between language policies, practices and ideologies in a multilingual Facebook group in Luxembourg. The group under focus, "Free Your Stuff Luxembourg", was created to facilitate the cost-free exchange of consumer goods between members located in Luxembourg. The article traces the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Planning, Multilingualism, Web Sites
Social Context, Parental Exogamy and Hakka Language Retention in Taiwan
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Jan, Jie-Sheng; Kuan, Ping-Yin; Lomeli, Arlett – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2016
The Hakka people, the largest ethno-linguistic minority group in Taiwan, have found their ethnic language retention diminishing. Using the data collected by the Taiwan Education Panel Survey and Beyond in 2010, we are the first to study its reason for decrease. Results indicate that out-marriage amongst Hakka people and losing ethnic concentration…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Language Minorities, Asians, Ethnic Groups
Research for Language Policy in Surinamese Education: A Study on Involvement and Detachment
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Kroon, Sjaak; Yagmur, Kutlay – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2014
In this paper, the on-going process of language policy-making in Suriname is dealt with using quantitative data obtained from students as well as teachers in primary and secondary schools. The Republic of Suriname is a former Dutch colony on the Caribbean coast of South America. Suriname shelters around 20 languages. Dutch is the official language…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Planning, Language Research, Statistical Analysis
Code Choice in Hong Kong: From Bilingualism to Trilingualism
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Ho, Judy Woon Yee – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2008
China resumed its sovereignty over Hong Kong in 1997. Since then drastic changes in this former British colony have occurred. One of these changes is a shift in language policy, from bilingualism (Cantonese and English) to trilingualism (Cantonese, English and Putonghua). The present study is aimed at investigating tertiary students' use of…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Focus Groups, Learning Motivation, Diaries
Les ecoles secondaires de langue francaise en Ontario: Dix ans apres (French Language Secondary Schools in Ontario: Ten Years Later).
Bordeleau, Louis-Gabriel; And Others – 1980
This is a study of the educational experience of Franco-Ontarians at the secondary level, dealing specifically with the development and achievement of French-language instructional units, and community expectations of such units. The report starts with a review of the history of secondary French-language education from 1848 to 1968, the year in…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Educational Legislation, Ethnic Groups, French