Problems and issues related to the implementation of a bilingual policy are examined in Singapore, a multiracial, multicultural, and multilingual nation. Bilingualism in Singapore involves a major transformation since English is "claimed," and Singapore bilinguals are increasingly English-knowing bilinguals. Interrelationships between…

European Community initiatives in language management include educational models involved in promoting mastery of at least three languages. The Luxembourg model outlines a trilingual program for the whole school population; the European School model, a complex multilingual program; and the Foyer Project, plans for immigrant minorities to move into…

Discusses language status planning in Spain's attempt to enhance the use of Catalan. The study reveals that three aspects of public language policy have attenuated ethnic constraints against nonnative use of Catalan and that further changes in social relations may be necessary to alter patterns of language choice. Contains 34 references. (GLR)

Significant features of the official October 1990 orthographic reforms in French are outlined and their pedagogical implications are discussed briefly. The changes, primarily simplifications and not major changes, affect use of the hyphen, plurals, diacritical markings, verb tenses, and correction of anomalies. (MSE)

The study of planned languages and the conscious creation of languages are frequently characterized by strident arguments for or against real or putative objectives of the movements linked to these languages. The brochures reviewed in this article are taken from various documentation series that provide relevant facts and analyses. (Author/VWL)

Provides an overview of language planning and the sociolinguistic environment in East Timor. Suggests that those with responsibility for planning show no interest in any holistic or global approach that might take into account all the indigenous languages of the region. (Author/VWL)

Proposes a notion of linguistic citizenship as a way of capturing how issues of language may be accorded a central place in the arena of education and politics. Offers both sociopolitical and theoretical rationales for an integrative view of language policy and planning in the context of education, combining an academic and social analysis of…

Discusses to what extent the broadcast media in the Breton language has acted as a vital link to language maintenance in Brittany. Highlights the background context of the Breton language, reasons for its decline, and what the broadcast media can do to help reverse language shift. (Author/VWL)

Examines whether a broadcast media can effect some degree of language shift in areas where the a language is the target language of revitalization efforts or can consolidate language maintenance in areas where the broadcast language is the language of the speech community. (Author/VWL)

Gives a brief overview of Irish language radio in Ireland and points out a few difficulties with a roundtable discussion on Irish carried out by scholars in the field of minority language broadcasting. (Author/VWL)

Analyzes the mythology and imagery underpinning global English, the many labels used to describe English, and the transition from an imperialist language into one that meshes with ongoing processes of Europeanization and Americanization, largely through the influence of transnational corporations. Implications are drawn for Danish, in Denmark, a…

This study focuses on an urban school district in Southern California with a large Cambodian-American student population. Ten Cambodian-American former students of the district were interviewed to examine the nature of their educational experience in terms of federal, state and district policies for language minority students. All entered school…

Although studies involving linguistic human rights (LHRs) have focused at length on cases of inter-language discrimination, much less attention has been given to intra-language discrimination (Blommaert 2001a; Skutnabb-Kangas et al. 2001). This paper highlights a number of theoretical issues that the LHRs framework needs to deal with once…

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…

The Council of Europe and European Commission have repeatedly called for the development of language policies by higher education institutions (HEIs) in the European Union. This paper presents the results of a survey of Irish HEIs regarding their language policies and considers the implications for language learning in Ireland. (Contains 2 notes.)