Presents an overview of current language policy and planning in Macao, as well as the language situation, especially in relation to language in education. The situation of four principal types of language-medium schools is also reviewed, with a view to assessing how efficiently these schools are achieving their proclaimed goals, and what problems…

An analysis of the use of English by some Chinese postgraduate students and visiting scholars in Britain, in terms of the four language skills (listening, speaking, reading, and writing), identifies the frequency and level of difficulty of certain activities that involve the use of English and the most helpful activities for improving a given…

A study of college faculty and student attitudes toward artificial languages, particularly Esperanto, found faculty more knowledgeable but less enthusiastic than students about the languages. Faculty were less likely to see practical benefits in the knowledge and use of constructed languages, and less interested in seeing them taught or learning…