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Direct linkPayne, Mark – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2017
The arrival of large numbers of Slovak Roma to Sheffield over a relatively short period has inserted two new languages (Slovak and Romani) into an already diverse, multilingual school environment. Schools face challenges in welcoming the new migrant children, inducting and integrating them and facilitating access to the English school curriculum.…
Descriptors: Minority Groups, Secondary School Students, Foreign Countries, Language Planning
Evans, Stephen; Morrison, Bruce – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2017
Research into the medium of instruction (MOI) in Hong Kong has traditionally focused on years 7-9; thus, little is known about school policies and classroom practices in the crucial senior-secondary years which fall beyond the ambit of government diktats. This lacuna is particularly conspicuous in the case of Chinese-medium schools, whose students…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language of Instruction, Sino Tibetan Languages
Peer reviewedJones, 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
