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Manuel, Nicolau Nkiawete; Johnson, David Cassels – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2018
Portuguese is the mother tongue for many Angolans yet a majority continue to use African languages in everyday interactions and schools struggle to provide equal educational opportunities for students whose first language is not Portuguese. Recognizing this challenge, the Angolan government has created a language policy that will introduce six…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language of Instruction, Educational Policy, Educational Practices
Reath Warren, Anne – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2018
This article reports on language narratives in the ecology of a Vietnamese community language school (VCLS) in Australia. The study takes a dialogical perspective, where the stories about language that informants in the research setting tell are understood to shape and be shaped by the contexts in which they are told. Systematic analysis of…
Descriptors: Vietnamese, Community Schools, Native Language Instruction, Language Attitudes
Phan, T. T. Huyen; Hamid, M. Obaidul – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2017
Learner autonomy (LA) is generally accepted as an important goal, either explicit or implicit, in language education policies across polities. Fostering LA in educational settings primarily depends on the role of teachers in enacting macro-level policies at the micro level. While various top-down and bottom-up frameworks for language policy…
Descriptors: Sociocultural Patterns, Personal Autonomy, Educational Policy, Second Language Learning
Miranda, Norbella; Berdugo, Martha; Tejada, Harvey – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2016
The current internationalization trends in higher education and educational language policies impel universities to plan their provision of foreign languages. Often, universities are developing language policies, redesigning their foreign language programs and seeking to foster bilingual or multilingual strategies within graduate and undergraduate…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Educational Policy, Policy Formation, English (Second Language)
Pearson, Pamela – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2014
From the time of Belgian colonial rule, French was predominantly the medium of instruction (MOI) in Rwanda. Then, in October 2008, a Rwandan Cabinet resolution called for the immediate implementation of English as the language of instruction in all public schools at all levels--from primary to tertiary. This study reports on ethnographic interview…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language of Instruction, French, Teaching Methods
Nguyen, Hoa Thi Mai; Bui, Thuy – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2016
Scholars concerned with language policies (LPs) argue that globalization has brought about various political, socio-economic, and linguistic shifts that increasingly impact on teacher agency (e.g., Zhao & Baldauf, 2012). Recently, the LP literature has increasingly acknowledged the agentive role of teachers as a critical factor in implementing…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Language Planning, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Choi, Tae-Hee – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2015
In recent years, Asian countries including South Korea have been trying to redefine the role of English in response to globalisation. The impact of this on English language teaching and on Korean society more generally has been well documented; however, the impact of this change on individual teachers and their teaching calls for further…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Language of Instruction, Language Planning
Willoughby, Louisa – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2014
The heterogeneous backgrounds, languages and proficiencies students bring to the classroom have always been a key challenge facing schools that wish to implement heritage language programmes. In this article I describe the evolution of one high school's approach to heritage language education and some of the roadblocks they encountered in…
Descriptors: Heritage Education, Second Language Instruction, Native Language Instruction, Language of Instruction
Schissel, Jamie L. – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2014
Test accommodations are changes to test administration, responses, or the test itself that are offered to emergent bilingual students for standardized tests and also for classroom assessments in some states in the USA. Currently there is a lack of research examining the use of test accommodations as a pedagogical practice. This paper presents a…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Testing Accommodations, Ethnography, Case Studies
Machida, Tomohisa; Walsh, Daniel J. – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2015
This case study examines the implementation of "Foreign Language Activities" (English language education), which officially began in Japanese elementary schools in 2011. Subjects in this study included 37 Japanese classroom teachers (20 males and 17 females) in four elementary schools in Tokyo. The Teacher Foreign Language Anxiety Scale…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Program Implementation, English (Second Language), Educational Change
Zacharias, Nugrahenny T. – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2013
The aim of this paper is to explore the practice of English-medium-of-instruction (EMI) education in Indonesia implemented within the backdrop of a governmental macro-language planning policy known as International Standards Schools (ISSs) between 2007 and 2013. Twelve teachers teaching at two candidates of ISSs were interviewed to examine their…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Language Planning
Hamid, M. Obaidul; Jahan, Iffat; Islam, M. Monjurul – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2013
The use of English as a medium of instruction (MOI) in polities across the world has drawn attention of language policy and planning scholars and researchers. Increasingly, research on MOI policy and practice focuses on how macro-level policies are translated into action by "actors" including teachers and students in the micro-context.…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Ideology, Language Planning
Perales Escudero, Moises Damian; Reyes Cruz, Maria del Rosario; Loyo, Griselda Murrieta – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2012
The quality of English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) instruction in elementary schools worldwide is an issue of concern for language policy and planning (LPP) scholars, as are examinations of power and ideologies operating in policy creation and implementation. This critical, exploratory study blends these two strands of inquiry by examining…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Ideology
Jones, Jennifer M. – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2014
This paper investigates the perceptions of teachers from one Sabaot dominated primary school in western Kenya regarding the medium of instruction (MoI) policy in different class levels. While their "ideal" MoI policy bears some resemblance to the official policy which advocates mother tongue (MT) as medium in lower primary and English in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Language of Instruction, Ethnography