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Danish language legislation and de facto language policies Current Issues in Language Planning (IF 2.03) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Anne Holmen
For many years Denmark has had a reputation for being laissez-faire in language matters. There is no explicit language legislation, and the Danish Language Council has mainly descriptive functions....
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Radical cyberfeminists as language planners: South Korea’s Womad Current Issues in Language Planning (IF 2.03) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Kathy Lee, Sunyoung Yang
In response to tumultuous gender relations in South Korea, many feminist and anti-feminist communities have increased their online presence since the 2010s. At the extreme end of this spectrum is t...
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Language policy and planning in Asia, Volume 1, theoretical approaches and practices Current Issues in Language Planning (IF 2.03) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Huan Yik Lee
Published in Current Issues in Language Planning (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Reimagining raciolinguistic ideologies through an analysis of localized language-in-education policies in Turkey and Korea Current Issues in Language Planning (IF 2.03) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Hyunjin Jinna Kim, Tuba Yilmaz, Yong-Jik Lee
As global migration and transnational mobility have increased steadily in the recent few decades, interests in equity-based theories and pedagogies have intensified to respond to racially and lingu...
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School leaders as projective agents: online spaces for heritage languages during COVID-19 Current Issues in Language Planning (IF 2.03) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Jonathan Hancock, Andy Hancock
This article reports on a national survey of complementary school providers in Scotland to gain insights into their perspectives of the abrupt transition to online learning spaces during the Covid-...
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The impact of policy settings on language education in Australian schools: a comparative analysis of language enrolments and attrition in New South Wales and Victoria Current Issues in Language Planning (IF 2.03) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Antonia Rubino, John Hajek
We explore the impact of language education policy on language enrolments and provision in primary and secondary government schools In Australia, specifically in New South Wales (NSW) and Victoria,...
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What corpus language planning is in place for public television outlets in the Catalan communicative space? Current Issues in Language Planning (IF 2.03) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Joan Costa-Carreras
This article examines the latest developments in the corpus language planning interventions in the implementation of the codification (Haugen, E. (1983). The implementation of corpus planning: theo...
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Language planning issues of Hungarian legal language and the clear writing programme as a possible solution Current Issues in Language Planning (IF 2.03) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 József Álmos Katona, Zoltán Bódi
This paper discusses the ‘fuzziness’ of Hungarian legal language as an issue of language planning addressed in the Hungarian language strategy to be published by the Hungarian Research Centre for L...
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Legal status and regulation of the German language in the Federal Republic of Germany Current Issues in Language Planning (IF 2.03) Pub Date : 2023-12-30 Paweł Kamocki, Henning Lobin, Andreas Witt, Angelika Wöllstein
Despite being an official language of several countries in Central and Western Europe, German is not formally recognised as the official language of the Federal Republic of Germany. However, in cer...
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We have become protectors of English: revisiting policies of publishing in English in non-Anglophone academia Current Issues in Language Planning (IF 2.03) Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Seyyed-Abdolhamid Mirhosseini, Farnoosh Rashed, Mohsen Shirazizadeh
In the vigorous trend of international publication as a crucial research performance indicator, English claims the status of the uncontested global language of academic publishing. In this study, a...
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School actors navigating between implementor & arbiter – a qualitative study on the dynamics in multilingual schools’ language policy Current Issues in Language Planning (IF 2.03) Pub Date : 2023-12-08 Maxime Van Raemdonck, Robyn Tyler, Piet Van Avermaet, Wendelien Vantieghem
Over the past two decades, heightened migration has increased linguistic diversity in schools. For schools to cope with this multilingualism, many governments impose a monolingual policy where only...
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Contrasting a university's language policy with its linguistic landscape: a Norwegian case study Current Issues in Language Planning (IF 2.03) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Heiko Motschenbacher
This study demonstrates that linguistic landscape analysis is a powerful tool for assessing the effectiveness of a university language policy, as it provides in situ evidence for discursive pattern...
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Gaps between policy aspirations and enactment: graduate students’ struggles with academic English amidst a turbulent transition to the EMI environment in Kazakhstani universities Current Issues in Language Planning (IF 2.03) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Mir Afzal Tajik, Syed Abdul Manan, Uli Schamiloglu, Gulnara Namyssova
This study investigated multilingual students’ linguistic challenges at English-medium instruction (EMI) universities in Kazakhstan. Using language policy and planning as a theoretical lens, this s...
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Bulgarian language policy Current Issues in Language Planning (IF 2.03) Pub Date : 2023-10-18 Svetla Koeva
The paper presents some general facts about Bulgarian, which is spoken by over 8 million people all over the world and is the official language of the Republic of Bulgaria. It is shown that languag...
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From policy to practice: how schools implement German language support policy in Austria Current Issues in Language Planning (IF 2.03) Pub Date : 2023-10-17 Susanne Schwab, Katharina Resch, Marie Gitschthaler, Sepideh Hassani, Diana Latzko, Antonia Peter, Sarah Walczuch
In 2018/2019, the Government of Austria instituted a new language support model to Austrian schools that included segregated language support measures for non-fluent German-speaking students. The c...
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Individual agency in language-in-education policy: a story of Chinese heritage language schools in multilingual Brussels Current Issues in Language Planning (IF 2.03) Pub Date : 2023-09-27 Xiangyun Li, Qi Shen
It is increasingly recognized that agency plays an essential role in shaping language-in-education policy (LEP) and influencing the learning process. Research on agency has not yet adequately engag...
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Micro language planning in Mandarin-dominated Chinese language education: voices from dialect-background heritage learners in New Zealand Current Issues in Language Planning (IF 2.03) Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Lin Chen, Danping Wang
The field of language policy and planning has seen increasing scholarly attention that explores social actors’ micro language planning towards a given language policy situation at the grassroots le...
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Hungarian as a minority and majority language in different language policy contexts Current Issues in Language Planning (IF 2.03) Pub Date : 2023-09-18 István Jánk, Szilvia Rási
This study primarily focuses on the situation of Hungarians in minority situations in relation to language varieties, i.e. it interprets the various language policy issues primarily in the context ...
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Everyday multilingualism: linguistic landscapes as practice and pedagogy Current Issues in Language Planning (IF 2.03) Pub Date : 2023-09-19 Sixuan Wang
Published in Current Issues in Language Planning (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Multilingual learning and language supportive pedagogies in sub-Saharan Africa Current Issues in Language Planning (IF 2.03) Pub Date : 2023-09-14 Edwin Dartey
Published in Current Issues in Language Planning (Vol. 25, No. 1, 2024)
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Policy from below: STEM teachers’ response to EMI policy and policy-making in the mainstream schools in Kazakhstan Current Issues in Language Planning (IF 2.03) Pub Date : 2023-08-02 Syed Abdul Manan, Symbat Mukhamediyeva, Sabina Kairatova, Mir Afzal Tajik, Anas Hajar
Following the government’s trilingual education reforms in Kazakhstan, STEM subjects such as sciences, mathematics, and computer science were to be taught through English Medium Instruction (EMI) i...
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Micro level language planning, agency, and ICT in community language schools: before, during and after the pandemic Current Issues in Language Planning (IF 2.03) Pub Date : 2023-07-24 Janica Nordstrom, Rose Zhang
ABSTRACT Community language schools are grassroots initiatives set up by immigrant communities aiming to teach language and culture to children and descendants of migrants. During the Covid-19 pandemic, issues around ICT and equity sat at the heart of educational planning, ranging from student access to ICT to ensuring teachers’ understanding of technological affordances. Although a myriad of emerging
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Recent lexical expansion in New Zealand Sign Language: context, scope and mechanisms Current Issues in Language Planning (IF 2.03) Pub Date : 2023-07-10 Rachel McKee, Mireille Vale
This paper examines recent lexical expansion in New Zealand Sign Language (NZSL) in the context of change in the status of the language and ongoing contact with other (spoken and signed) languages....
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Greek heritage language teachers as emergency grassroots policy makers: reconciling learner centred responses with textbook heavy pedagogies during COVID-19 lockdown Current Issues in Language Planning (IF 2.03) Pub Date : 2023-06-28 Vally Lytra
ABSTRACT This paper addresses the paucity of research on policy agents’ responses to the shift to teaching online during the first lockdown in heritage language education and pedagogy. Collected in the context of a small-scale exploratory study, it focuses on the reflective accounts of a group of heritage language teachers in a Greek school in francophone Switzerland. The paper builds on a translingual
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Grassroots policymaking in practice: including heritage languages in the critical connections project through agency, activism, and alternative voices Current Issues in Language Planning (IF 2.03) Pub Date : 2023-06-08 Vicky Macleroy, Jim Anderson, Yu-chiao Chung
ABSTRACT This article examines the Critical Connections Multilingual Digital Storytelling Project through the lens of Language Policy and Planning (LPP) and considers the situation of heritage language learning within the policy on language education. We present our project as grassroots policymaking in practice and demonstrate how, through deep and meaningful collaboration, researchers, teachers,
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Shadow education, Bourdieu, & meritocracy: towards an understanding of Juku and inequality in Japan Current Issues in Language Planning (IF 2.03) Pub Date : 2023-05-10 Christopher Samuell
Private educational activities designed to enhance student outcomes outside the formal schooling system are increasingly referred to as shadow education. In Japan, shadow education traditionally co...
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English-Medium Instruction Practices in Higher Education: International Perspectives Current Issues in Language Planning (IF 2.03) Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Tho Doan Vo
Published in Current Issues in Language Planning (Vol. 25, No. 1, 2024)
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Common sense and resistance: EMI policy and practice in Indonesian universities Current Issues in Language Planning (IF 2.03) Pub Date : 2023-05-03 Hywel Coleman, Nur Fauzan Ahmad, Nilawati Hadisantosa, Kuchah Kuchah, Martin Lamb, Dana Waskita
Research on English Medium Instruction (EMI) in Higher Education (HE) has tended to have a technicist orientation, examining for example how it is implemented and the challenges it has encountered....
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Shifting ecologies of family language planning: Hungarian Australian families during COVID-19 Current Issues in Language Planning (IF 2.03) Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Anikó Hatoss
ABSTRACT This study took a mixed-methods approach to investigate family language planning (FLP) in Hungarian families raising children in Australia. The study aimed to explore the complex factors impacting FLP and how families responded to the rapidly changing social conditions during the outbreak of Covid-19. The pandemic highlighted the shifting spatiotemporal dynamics of the family domain. Therefore
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Which doors can English open? Exploring the opportunities of economically vulnerable Colombian higher education graduates Current Issues in Language Planning (IF 2.03) Pub Date : 2022-12-30 Lee Mackenzie
Many higher education (HE) systems in the Global South have prioritised English language education (ELE), including in Colombia where English has become the dominant foreign language of HE. However...
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Sustainability and educational language policy in Arab higher education: findings from Q research Current Issues in Language Planning (IF 2.03) Pub Date : 2022-12-22 Hadeel Alkhateeb, Salim Bouherar
This study examined whether institutions of higher education in the Arab world have adopted approaches that promote linguistic sustainability. Specifically, we used Q methodology to explore 30 grad...
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The hidden face of public language policy: a case study from the UK Current Issues in Language Planning (IF 2.03) Pub Date : 2022-12-09 Emma Humphries, Wendy Ayres-Bennett
In which domains and for which language types does language legislation occur and how easy is it to identify it? The United Kingdom (UK) affords a good test bed to answer these questions since it i...
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Instructors’ navigation and appropriation of gender-inclusive Spanish at a U.S. University Current Issues in Language Planning (IF 2.03) Pub Date : 2022-11-26 Ronald Fuentes, Inmaculada Gómez Soler
Drawing on in-depth qualitative interviews, we examine Spanish language instructors’ interpretation and appropriation of gender-inclusive language (GIL) policy at a U.S. university. Policy appropri...
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Learning the language of social environment: the case of Hungarian in Vojvodina (Serbia) Current Issues in Language Planning (IF 2.03) Pub Date : 2022-11-15 Marija Mandić, Krisztina Rácz
ABSTRACT This article explores Yugoslav education policy in Vojvodina (Serbia), one of the most multilingual regions of the country, which was implemented in the period between the 1960s and 1980s through the school subject the ‘Language of social environment’ (LSE). Based on archival and field research, this case study is devoted to the school subject Hungarian as LSE intended for students whose L1
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Language management and its impact: the policies and practices of Confucius Institutes Current Issues in Language Planning (IF 2.03) Pub Date : 2022-10-19 Yitong Wang
Published in Current Issues in Language Planning (Vol. 24, No. 5, 2023)
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Correction Current Issues in Language Planning (IF 2.03) Pub Date : 2022-09-28
Published in Current Issues in Language Planning (Vol. 23, No. 5, 2022)
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Strategic management of Welsh language training on a macro and micro level Current Issues in Language Planning (IF 2.03) Pub Date : 2022-09-16 Ifor Gruffydd, Rhian Hodges, Cynog Prys
ABSTRACT This paper presents a detailed analysis of how Welsh language training in the public sector workplace in north Wales is planned and delivered. Specific attention is given to the effectiveness of strategic management on both the macro level (Welsh Government, Welsh Language Board/Welsh Language Commissioner) and the micro level (individual public sector organisations) of language planning respectively
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A comparative study of regional-language immersion education in Brittany and Wales Current Issues in Language Planning (IF 2.03) Pub Date : 2022-09-07 George Wilson
ABSTRACT This article compares the immersion-education systems in Brittany and Wales. The number of Welsh speakers is growing thanks to its well-developed immersion-education system. Brittany has a much less well-developed system and the number of Breton speakers is falling dramatically. Urgent action is needed if Breton is to survive. Using an approach based loosely on ‘comparative history as a comparison
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Well-being and language: language as a well-being objective in Wales Current Issues in Language Planning (IF 2.03) Pub Date : 2022-08-30 Cynog Prys, David Matthews
ABSTRACT Increasingly, it is recognised that the opportunity to engage with one’s own culture and language is beneficial for an individual’s well-being. Research among indigenous communities in North America, Australia, Scandinavia, and New Zealand, have illustrated the importance of culturo-linguistic congruity. In Wales, the Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015 has come to define the
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Family language policy in Indigenous and bilingual communities: case studies of Nahuatl-speaking caregivers in Mexico Current Issues in Language Planning (IF 2.03) Pub Date : 2022-08-17 Grace A. Gomashie
ABSTRACT This paper reports on the family language policy (FLP) of three families in a Nahuatl community in Mexico. It investigates the role of (i) parental experiences, beliefs, attitudes and expectations, (ii) child practices, and (iii) broader societal attitudes in shaping these policies. Drawing on survey and interview data, the study points to a tension between generally positive attitudes towards
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The neoliberal structures of English in Japanese higher education: applying Bernstein’s pedagogic device Current Issues in Language Planning (IF 2.03) Pub Date : 2022-07-28 Michael D. Smith
ABSTRACT As global neoliberalism continues to take root, States aim to produce linguistically-skilled human capital to gain an advantage within highly-competitive market conditions. With this relationship in view, English language proficiency constitutes a ‘rational’ educational pathway for national and personal-level success within an outwardly meritocratic knowledge economy. Yet, in Japan, as in
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Handbook of home language maintenance and development: social and affective factors (handbooks of applied linguistics) Current Issues in Language Planning (IF 2.03) Pub Date : 2022-07-26 Maya Khemlani David
Published in Current Issues in Language Planning (Vol. 24, No. 3, 2023)
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A quantitative analysis of the language policy processes in early childhood professionals’ advice on multilingual parenting Current Issues in Language Planning (IF 2.03) Pub Date : 2022-07-16 Victoria Van Oss, Wendelien Vantieghem, Esli Struys, Piet Van Avermaet
ABSTRACT Whereas early childhood professionals can play a pivotal role in fostering young children’s home language development, little is known about what determines the kind of multilingual parenting advice they offer families. The objective of this study was to deconstruct the processes culminating in two types of such recommendations: advice highlighting the usage of the home language in the family
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Individual language policy: Bilingual youth in Vietnam Current Issues in Language Planning (IF 2.03) Pub Date : 2022-07-05 Shuyun Zheng, Xuesong (Andy) Gao
Published in Current Issues in Language Planning (Vol. 24, No. 2, 2023)
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Language policy and planning in the teaching of native languages in Pakistan Current Issues in Language Planning (IF 2.03) Pub Date : 2022-06-19 Zia ur Rehman Bazai, Syed Abdul Manan, Stefanie Pillai
ABSTRACT The teaching of native languages is seen as being key to the development of cognitive skills, better academic performance in early grades and a resource for linguistic (re)vitalization and cultural revival. This study examines the institutional challenges in teaching and learning native languages in Pakistan. The study uses teachers’ agency through the public sphere paradigm as a theoretical
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Language planning for diversity in foreign language education Current Issues in Language Planning (IF 2.03) Pub Date : 2022-06-17 Anthony J. Liddicoat
ABSTRACT Studies in language policy and planning (LPP) for the teaching and learning of foreign languages have been under-represented in LPP scholarship. This under-representation is especially the case for studies of policy and planning for foreign languages other than English outside the English-speaking world. Foreign language education in much of the world has become synonymous with the teaching
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Language ideological landscapes for students in university language policies: inclusion, exclusion, or hierarchy Current Issues in Language Planning (IF 2.03) Pub Date : 2022-06-15 Mai Shirahata, Malgorzata Lahti
ABSTRACT Many universities in non-English speaking countries have been adopting English as a medium of instruction to internationalize their education. We set out to compare the language policies of a Finnish and a Japanese university using the lens of language ideology – a set of normative beliefs about the social dimension of language. Data were collected from selected documents of the two universities
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Conscripted into thinking of scarce, selective, privatized, and precarious seats in dual language bilingual education: the choice discourse of mercenary exclusivity Current Issues in Language Planning (IF 2.03) Pub Date : 2022-05-23 M. Garrett Delavan, Juan A. Freire, Trish Morita-Mullaney
ABSTRACT This multimodal critical discourse analysis is part of a larger equity audit of how the websites of 11 of the largest U.S. school districts discussed access to dual language bilingual education (DLBE). Prior research has frequently documented how administrators utilize DLBE programs to compete with one another for the supposedly necessary resource of privileged students, while deprioritizing
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A language management approach to language problems: Integrating macro and micro dimensions Current Issues in Language Planning (IF 2.03) Pub Date : 2022-03-22 Zhuo Meifang
(2022). A language management approach to language problems: Integrating macro and micro dimensions. Current Issues in Language Planning: Vol. 23, No. 3, pp. 343-345.
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Salvaging Mandarin education in Singapore through community Current Issues in Language Planning (IF 2.03) Pub Date : 2022-03-11 Cher Leng Lee, Chiew Pheng Phua
ABSTRACT Singapore is a multiracial nation with a majority ethnic Chinese population. Since its independence in 1965, it has adopted an ‘English-knowing’ bilingual policy to achieve economic, social, and political objectives. For the past two decades, there has been a rapid increase in the percentage of ethnic Chinese Primary One students coming from primarily English-speaking families. This has caused
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The gendered migrant experience: a study of family language policy (FLP) amongst mothers and daughters in the Somali community, Bristol Current Issues in Language Planning (IF 2.03) Pub Date : 2022-03-06 Charlotte Selleck
ABSTRACT This article adopts a gendered take on Family Language Policy (FLP) by questioning the way that gender impacts on the issues faced by refugee woman during and after flight. For this reason, the ethnographically informed research addresses the concerns and experiences of mothers and daughters in the Somali community in Bristol, one of the fastest growing communities in the city but one that
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Minority language rights to education in international, regional, and domestic regulations and practices: the case of Frisian in the Netherlands Current Issues in Language Planning (IF 2.03) Pub Date : 2022-02-24 Zoha Bayat, Ruth Kircher, Hans Van de Velde
ABSTRACT This paper examines minority language education in the Dutch province of Fryslân from a rights-based approach. To conduct the analysis, we employed a qualitative (legal) content analysis. We explored minority language rights at different levels to answer the following question: To what extent are international and regional standards on minority-language education applied domestically to education
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English as a medium of instruction in Kazakhstani higher education: a case study Current Issues in Language Planning (IF 2.03) Pub Date : 2022-02-23 Kymbat Yessenbekova
ABSTRACT In the era of the globalization of the English language, Kazakhstan has strategically implemented English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI) in higher education. Accordingly, the aim of this study was to explore teachers’ and students’ perceptions of their EMI experiences, focusing on the interplay between language management (LM), language practices (LP) and language ideology (LI) (Spolsky
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The smile revolution (hirak) as a driving force for an English ‘tidal wave’ and foreign language policy-making in Algeria Current Issues in Language Planning (IF 2.03) Pub Date : 2022-02-15 Baya Maraf, Ulker Vanci Osam
ABSTRACT The present study provides an insight into foreign language policy endeavour in Algeria. It responds to the concept of an English ‘tidal wave’ (Spolsky [2004]. Language policy. Cambridge University Press), and uses Spolsky’s ([2009]. Language management. Cambridge University Press) social approach and Djité’s ([1994]. From language policy to language planning. National Languages and Literacy
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Sustaining and revitalizing Indigenous languages in Oklahoma public schools: educational sovereignty in language policy and planning Current Issues in Language Planning (IF 2.03) Pub Date : 2022-02-10 Kari A. B. Chew, Courtney Tennell
ABSTRACT As Indigenous scholars committed to Indigenous education in Oklahoma, we use a decolonizing approach to consider how the 39 Indigenous Nations in Oklahoma assert educational sovereignty to sustain Indigenous high school students’ linguistic and cultural identities. Seeking to promote education models that sustain and revitalize Indigenous languages, we ask: 1) How do Indigenous Nations in
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Languages for learning: a framework for implementing India’s multilingual language-in-education policy Current Issues in Language Planning (IF 2.03) Pub Date : 2022-02-08 Santosh Kumar Mahapatra, Jason Anderson
ABSTRACT This paper proposes a framework for multilingual language-in-education policy implementation, offered as a critically constructive response to India’s recent National Education Policy 2020 (GOI, 2020). Rooted in India’s existing educational language policy, our linguistically inclusive ‘Languages for Learning’ (LFL) framework is, we believe, structurally flexible, socioculturally feasible
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Second language learning and socioeconomic development: interrogating anglonormativity from the perspective of pre-service modern language professionals Current Issues in Language Planning (IF 2.03) Pub Date : 2022-01-03 Ferney Cruz Arcila, Vanessa Solano-Cohen, Ana Cecilia Rincón, Antonio Lobato Junior, María Briceño-González
ABSTRACT In the context of an undergraduate program in modern languages that includes the learning of French, Italian, Portuguese, and German in addition to English, this paper problematizes anglonormativity; that is, the dominant discourses of English as the taken-for-granted language of development. From the particular context of Colombia, where the hegemony of English has notoriously shaped different
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Discourses shaping the language-in-education policy and foreign language education in Nepal: an intersectional perspective Current Issues in Language Planning (IF 2.03) Pub Date : 2021-12-29 Prem Prasad Poudel, Tae-Hee Choi
ABSTRACT Language policy and planning in Nepal has been contested due to the co-existence of multiple contradictory discourses concerning teaching and learning of local, national, foreign, and international languages. Recently a multilingual policy was issued to create space for the once-banned ethnic/indigenous languages in public schooling, further complexifying the landscape. A few studies have
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Negotiating hegemonies in language policy: ideological synergies in media recontextualizations of audit culture Current Issues in Language Planning (IF 2.03) Pub Date : 2021-12-16 Kristof Savski
ABSTRACT One of the products of globalization in sociolinguistics is the emergence of transnational regimes in language policy, in which power is exercised across boundaries of traditional nation states. This paper engages with audit culture, a transnational policy mechanism which involves the continuous evaluation of nation states’ performance through the use of purportedly neutral, typically quantitative
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Language, hospitality, and internationalisation: exploring university life with the ethical and political acts of university administrators Current Issues in Language Planning (IF 2.03) Pub Date : 2021-12-13 Luke Holmes
ABSTRACT Drawing on the ethico-political framework of hospitality, this paper investigates the communicative practices of three administrative support staff as they attempt to manage the twin challenges of working in adherence to state and institutional language policies while communicating ethically in an internationalising workplace. Academic administrative staff rarely feature in studies on internationalisation