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Review of Roy (2020): French Immersion Ideologies in Canada Language Problems and Language Planning (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-03-31 Matthew Hayday
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Review of Ricento (2019): Language politics and policies. Perspectives from Canada and the United States Language Problems and Language Planning (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-03-28 Rachelle Vessey
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Review of Leal (2021): English and Translation in the European Union: Unity and Multiplicity in the Wake of Brexit Language Problems and Language Planning (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-03-28 Nils Ringe
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West African Pidgin as a tool for socio-economic development Language Problems and Language Planning (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-03-28 Samsondeen Ajagbe,Bridget Fonkeu,Uyi Edegbe
AbstractThis paper highlights the important role of Pidgin in economic development in West Africa. We use a unificationistmodel of dependence relations to explain the nexus between West African Pidgin (WAP) and the region’s socio-economic development.The study draws on the formidable role that Pidgin plays as the language of communication in the thriving informal cross-bordermarkets along the Nigerian-Cameroonian
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Review of Horn, Lecomte & Tietze (2020): Managing Multilingual Workplaces: Methodological, Empirical and Pedagogic Perspectives Language Problems and Language Planning (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-12-31 Tobias Schroedler
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Pluricentric linguistic justice in Quebec Language Problems and Language Planning (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-12-31 Leigh Oakes,Yael Peled
AbstractWith the emergence of the notion of Standard Quebec French, debates about linguistic usage in Quebec are todaylargely shaped by two competing normative models: an exonorm defined for all intents and purposes in France and an endonormreflecting socially acceptable usage as determined by Quebecers themselves. While language attitude research has provided someindication of the normative preferences
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Review of Peled & Weinstock (2020): Language Ethics Language Problems and Language Planning (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-12-31 Elvira Riera-Gil
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Language gender gap at work across OECD countries Language Problems and Language Planning (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-12-31 Teresa Corbella,Amado Alarcón,Joanna Andraszak
AbstractLanguage gender differences at work have been widely described though hardly measured. The object of this study is whether there are gender differences in the use of language skills at work and what those differences are. A gender gap measure of linguistic skills used at work is presented and computed for 21 countries using data from the first round of the Survey of Adult Skills (n = 109 695)
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Territorial and non-territorial arrangements in a multi-ethno-linguistic context Language Problems and Language Planning (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-11-24 Ádám Németh
AbstractThis article argues that the geographically dispersed distribution of the minorities in the Baltic republics(apart from the Poles in Lithuania and the Russians in Northeast Estonia) constitutes an objective obstacle to provision ofterritorially based minority rights. However, the potential alternatives to the territorial principle are also rarely adopted. Thecultural autonomy model in Estonia
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The economic effects of the territoriality principle Language Problems and Language Planning (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-11-24 Zsombor Csata,Roman Hlatky,Amy H. Liu,Ariel Pitre Young
AbstractThe territoriality principle stipulates that minority communities in a given territory should be linguistically accommodated. What are the economic effects of this principle? In this paper, we argue that the recognition of multiple languages confers respect on the minority group; it allows people to engage and participate meaningfully in society – thereby facilitating economic well-being. There
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Personality and territoriality in theory and in Belgium Language Problems and Language Planning (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-11-24 Helder De Schutter
AbstractLanguage policy debates regularly refer to the principles of personality and territoriality. Yet the precise meaning of these principles remains unclear. In this contribution, I conceptualize these principles as poles of a continuum between official bilingualism (instantiating the personality principle) and official unilingualism (exemplifying the territoriality principle), with a mixed regime
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Geographical retreat and symbolic advance? Language Problems and Language Planning (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-11-24 John Coakley
AbstractLanguage policy in the Republic of Ireland has an unusual starting point: the geographical base of the Irishlanguage is very weak and territorially dispersed, yet the constitutional status of the language is extremely strong. The articleexplores this paradox. It sets Irish language policy in two contexts: that of successful nationalist movements mainly in Centraland Eastern Europe in the early
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The recent evolution of first languages in Catalonia Language Problems and Language Planning (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-07-15 Aveŀlí Flors-Mas,Natxo Sorolla,Miquel Àngel Pradilla,F. Xavier Vila
AbstractThe case of Catalonia has often been pointed out as a case of success in the field of language policy, based onthe improvement in its legal situation, the increase in the number of people who know it, and the extension of its use in certainfields. To contribute to a complete evaluation of the current language policy model in Catalonia, this article assesses theevolution of the first languages
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Language dominance and shift among Kalhuri Kurdish speakers in the multilingual context of Iran Language Problems and Language Planning (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-07-12 Hiwa Weisi
AbstractThe current language policy and planning of many countries still adhere to the nation-state ideology of “one nation equals one official language”. This issue is likely to cause the linguistic minority groups to devalue or even abandon their own mother tongue and identify with the official language of the country. A case in point is Iran where Persian is the only official language and other
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Immigrant linguistic integration in the multilingual context of Montreal Language Problems and Language Planning (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-07-12 Ibrahim Bousmah,Gilles Grenier
AbstractWe investigate the relative intensity of use of English and French at home for allophone immigrants in the Montreal metropolitan area. We find that the linguistic distances between immigrants’ mother tongues and English and French have an important impact on the relative intensities of use at home of the two Canadian official languages. However, immigrants whose mother tongues are closer to
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Review of Kimura & Fairbrother (2020): A language management approach to language problems: Integrating macro and micro dimensions Language Problems and Language Planning (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-06-01 Y. Tao,Z. H. Jiang
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Review of (2018): Un(intended) Language Planning in a Globalising World: Multiple Levels of Players at Work Language Problems and Language Planning (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-06-01 Kinga Kozminska
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Review of Cooke & Peutrell (2019): Brokering Britain, educating citizens: Exploring ESOL and citizenship Language Problems and Language Planning (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-03-31 Mohammed Ateek
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Lingue, dialetti e religione nelle aree occitane e francoprovenzali Language Problems and Language Planning (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2020-12-31 Matteo Rivoira
Astratta Gli stretti e complessi rapporti tra religione e lingua sono ormai uno degli ambiti di studio della sociologia del linguaggio. L’adozione in ambito religioso di determinati codici discende in genere dalla disponibilità di varietà elaborate nel repertorio linguistico comunitario, ma al contempo essa può determinare ristrutturazioni del repertorio stesso, in primis sullo status delle lingue
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Review of Pizzoli (2018): La politica linguistica in Italia. Dall’unificazione nazionale al dibattito sull’internazionalizzazione Language Problems and Language Planning (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2020-12-31 Emanuele Miola
This article reviews La politica linguistica in Italia. Dall’unificazione nazionale al dibattito sull’internazionalizzazione
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Fifty ways to legitimate your language Language Problems and Language Planning (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2020-12-31 Gabriele Iannàccaro,Vittorio Dell’Aquila
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The dilemmas of ‘saving’ a dying language Language Problems and Language Planning (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2020-12-31 Silvia Dal Negro
Abstract Walser German is a prototypical example of ‘extreme’ minority language, the survival of which appears at present extremely critical, at least in the Italian context. From a sociolinguistic point of view, Walser German is dispersed in a discontinuous territory and subject to language shift, language attrition and demographic shrinkage. Linguistically, it is part of a dialect continuum that
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Review of Giudici, Ronza & Pini (2020): Il plurilinguismo svizzero e la sfida dell’inglese. Riflessioni dal laboratorio elvetico a confronto con l’Europa Language Problems and Language Planning (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2020-12-31 Sabine Christopher
This article reviews Il plurilinguismo svizzero e la sfida dell’inglese. Riflessioni dal laboratorio elvetico a confronto con l’Europa
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La romaní in Italia tra rappresentazione e legittimazione Language Problems and Language Planning (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2020-12-31 Andrea Scala
AstrattaL’articolo esamina le dinamiche connesse con la (auto-)rappresentazione e la legittimazione della romaní in Italia. Comunità di lingua romaní sono presenti in Italia fin dalla prima età moderna e tutti i parlanti di romaní di antico insediamento nella penisola sono cittadini italiani, tuttavia la legge 482/1999 della Repubblica Italiana "Norme in materia di tutela delle minoranze linguistiche
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Review of Liddicoat (2018): Language policy and planning in universities: Teaching, research and administration Language Problems and Language Planning (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2020-12-03 Kimberley Chopin
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Review of Khan (2019): Becoming a citizen: Linguistic trials and negotiations in the UK Language Problems and Language Planning (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2020-12-03 Tony Capstick
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Language skills and labour market returns Language Problems and Language Planning (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2020-12-03 Svetlana Ridala
Abstract Increased migration, global trade and the introduction of digital labour platforms call for a better understanding of the mechanisms that can enhance economic and labour market outcomes in the face of increasing disparities in culture, language and identity. The article contributes to the literature on labour market returns on language skills, which is very heterogeneous and context-specific
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Review of De Meulder, Murray & McKee (2019): The legal recognition of sign languages: Advocacy and outcomes around the world Language Problems and Language Planning (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2020-11-23 Hanna Jaeger
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Language rights and groups of immigrant origin Language Problems and Language Planning (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2020-09-24 Iker Erdocia
Abstract In this article, I aim to analyse language rights in relation to groups of immigrant origin. Liberal democracies are reluctant to consider immigrant groups as subjects entitled to the same set of language and cultural rights enjoyed by national minorities. However, the trend towards increasing levels of immigration is configuring new cultural and language correlations within territorial boundaries
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Sources of variation in attitudes toward minority, majority and foreign language Language Problems and Language Planning (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2020-09-24 Sabina Halupka-Rešetar, Eleonóra Kovács Rácz
Abstract Vojvodina, an autonomous province in northern Serbia, is a historically multilingual and multicultural area where multilingual education forms a cornerstone of linguistic, educational and social policy and practice: in addition to the majority language, five minority languages are also in official use and speakers of these languages may receive education in their L1. However, such a situation
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Language choice in peer interactions and the role of peers in minority language maintenance Language Problems and Language Planning (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2020-09-24 Trang Thi Thuy Nguyen, M. Obaidul Hamid
Abstract Drawing on the positioning theory and the conditions for language use, this article examines Vietnamese ethnic minority students’ language choice in interactions with their same-ethnicity and majority peers, focusing particularly on their communication motives underlying this choice. Findings suggest that in regulating their language alternation practices across peer groups in different contexts
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Scientific research and languages in Portuguese Higher Education Institutions Language Problems and Language Planning (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2020-07-01 Susana Pinto, Maria Helena Araújo e Sá
Abstract This paper reports on a study that looked at Portuguese public universities setting out to identify and discuss institutional stakeholders’ social representations concerning the use of languages in scientific research and the development of institutional language policies within this area of higher education activity. In order to do so, institutional stakeholders responsible for research activities
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Mind the age gap Language Problems and Language Planning (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2020-07-01 Guilherme Fians
Abstract Esperanto is neither an official nor a commonly spoken language anywhere in the world and, due to the limited number of people who speak this language from birth and who teach it to the next generation, the persistence of this speech community cannot rely on intergenerational language transmission. Based on a year of ethnographic fieldwork in France, mainly in Paris, this article explores
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The orthography of revived Cornish as an attempt at pluricentricity Language Problems and Language Planning (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2020-07-01 Merryn Davies-Deacon
Abstract After over twenty years of debate over Cornish orthographies, recognition by the UK government according to the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages in 2003 led to the creation of what was initially intended as a “single written form” for use in official contexts. However, the inevitable impossibility of finding a compromise that pleased opposing groups of speakers with differing
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Language policy and planning in Nigeria Language Problems and Language Planning (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2020-07-01 Eucharia Okwudilichukwu Ugwu
Abstract Language planning and policy has been a recurring topic among Nigerian educators. Although the Nigerian National Policy on Education stipulates multilingual education, such provision has remained an object of criticism, rejection, and is therefore not implemented. While some of the issues often raised as hindering its implementation are well-founded, there is also a lack of political will
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Language competition modeling and language policy evaluation Language Problems and Language Planning (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2020-07-01 Torsten Templin
Abstract In this paper, we present a framework for the analysis of effects of language policies on the competition between languages. At the core of this framework is a language competition model that takes into account four pivotal factors for the evolution of the linguistic composition of a society: intergenerational language transmission, formal language education, adult language learning and migration
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Stefaan van der Jeught. (2015) EU Language Law Language Problems and Language Planning (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2019-12-03 Michele Gazzola
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Nkonko M. Kamwangamalu. (2016) Language Policy and Economics: The Language Question in Africa Language Problems and Language Planning (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2019-12-03 Weiguo Zhang
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A response to the rejoinder of Jacques Mélitz Language Problems and Language Planning (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2019-12-03 Robert Phillipson
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Corinne A. Seals and Sheena Shah (eds.) 2018. Heritage language policies around the world Language Problems and Language Planning (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2019-12-03 Anne Pauwels
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“Rejoinder” to Robert Phillipson, Languages in public policy, and constraints in academia Language Problems and Language Planning (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2019-12-03 Jacques Mélitz
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Sotos Ochando’s language movement Language Problems and Language Planning (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2019-12-03 Roberto Garvía
Abstract Usually relegated to a footnote in the historical accounts of planned languages, Sotos Ochando’s Lengua Universal was most likely the first to give rise to a planned language movement. Contrary to later language movements, Sotos Ochando’s had no competing planned language movements to challenge it. Sotos Ochando’s Lengua Universal was also unique in that it was a philosophical language, much
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The legal rights of Aragonese-speaking schoolchildren Language Problems and Language Planning (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2019-12-03 Maria Torres-Oliva, Cristina Petreñas, Ángel Huguet, Cecilio Lapresta
Abstract Aragon is an autonomous community within Spain where, historically, three languages are spoken: Aragonese, Catalan, and Castilian Spanish. Both Aragonese and Catalan are minority and minoritised languages within the territory, while Castilian Spanish, the majority language, enjoys total legal protection and legitimation. The fact that we live in the era of the nation-state is crucial for understanding
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Leigh Oakes and Yael Peled. (2018) Normative Language Policy: Ethics, Politics, Principles Language Problems and Language Planning (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2019-07-22 Tomasz Soroka
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Assessing Bill 101 after 40 years Language Problems and Language Planning (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2019-07-22 François Vaillancourt
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Evaluating the impact of Bill 101 on the English-speaking communities of Quebec Language Problems and Language Planning (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2019-07-22 Richard Y. Bourhis
Abstract Though forty years of language policies much improved the status and use of French in Quebec, laws such as Bill 101 played a role in reducing the demographic and institutional vitality of the English-speaking communities of Quebec (ESCQ). Pro-French laws maintained Francophones at close to 80% of the Quebec population and ensured that 95% of the Quebec population acquired knowledge of French
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Quebec’s language policy and economic globalization Language Problems and Language Planning (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2019-07-22 Gilles Grenier
Abstract This article examines the economic situation of language groups in Quebec since the 1970s. Particular attention is paid to the contexts of economic globalization, where English has become the most used world lingua franca, and of immigration now being the major source of population growth. Viewing language as a market where supply and demand determine outcomes, the purpose of Bill 101 was
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Rachelle Vessey. (2016). Language and Canadian Media: Representations, Ideologies, Policies Language Problems and Language Planning (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2019-07-22 Saira Fitzgerald
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L’utilisation du français dans la sphère publique Language Problems and Language Planning (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2019-07-22 Marc Termote
Résumé Après un bref examen de certains problèmes conceptuels (partie 1), nous présentons les principales mesures introduites par la Charte de la langue française en matière de langue de travail, de langue du commerce et des affaires, et de langue d’affichage, et faisons état des modifications apportées depuis l’adoption de ces mesures en 1977 (partie 2). Nous analysons ensuite (partie 3) l’évolution
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Succès et faiblesses de l’intégration des immigrants par la scolarisation obligatoire en français au Québec Language Problems and Language Planning (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2019-07-22 Michel Paillé
Résumé Centré sur la langue d’enseignement, ce bilan de la Charte de la langue française (loi 101) fait état de la connaissance, de l’apprentissage et de l’usage du français. Il montre que cette loi s’est avérée très efficace pour conduire les enfants des immigrants dans les écoles françaises plutôt que dans celles du réseau scolaire anglophone. Malgré cette réussite, illustrée par des comparaisons
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Ng, P. C., & Boucher-Yip, E. F. (Eds.). (2017). Teacher agency and policy response in English language teaching Language Problems and Language Planning (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2019-03-22 Jennifer J. MacDonald
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The role of LPLP in a changing landscape Language Problems and Language Planning (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2019-03-22 François Grin
There seems to be a broad consensus nowadays among scholars, politicians, journalists and citizens at large that in the course of the last few decades, and particularly since the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989, linguistic and cultural diversity has moved to the forefront of public concerns. The prominence of linguistic and cultural diversity as a major social issue of our times is an interesting fact
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Hacia una ortografía para el chabacano zamboangueño Language Problems and Language Planning (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2019-03-22 Eduardo Tobar Delgado, Mauro Fernández
Resumen El chabacano zamboangueno goza de una vitalidad en el ambito oral que no se corresponde con la escasez de textos publicados en esta lengua criolla. Con todo, en los ultimos tiempos estan aumentando las practicas escritas en ambitos como el sistema escolar, los medios audiovisuales o internet. Estas novedades han propiciado el interes por la estandarizacion de la lengua y el desarrollo de una
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Los límites jurídicos de las políticas lingüísticas y la desterritorialidad del catalán Language Problems and Language Planning (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2019-03-22 Juan Jiménez-Salcedo
Resumen El concepto de territorialidad linguistica remite a la existencia, para cada una de las lenguas de Europa, de un regimen juridico propio circunscrito a un territorio determinado. Como categoria opuesta, el concepto de desterritorialidad implica la existencia de un no-territorio juridico, en el que no se pueden desarrollar de manera optima las politicas linguisticas necesarias para hacer que
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Attitudes toward EMI in East Asia and the Gulf Language Problems and Language Planning (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2019-03-22 Keith M. Graham, Zohreh R. Eslami
Abstract In order to raise global profiles of universities, governments around the world have pushed universities to offer English medium instruction (EMI) courses. While research examining the attitudes toward EMI has been conducted in various countries, these studies generally look at a single university and rarely examine attitudes between countries or regions. In order to investigate attitudes
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Reviewing reform Language Problems and Language Planning (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2019-03-22 Basil Cahusac de Caux
Abstract The transformation of the contemporary Japanese writing system stemmed from the simultaneous political and cultural problematizing of so-called kokugo (national language) and kokuji (national script). Debates surrounding the structure and function of the written form of Japanese played an ongoing role in Japanese language reform proposals and policy planning initiated between the mid-1860s
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Review of de Zarobe, Yolanda Ruiz, Ed. (2016) Content and Language Integrated Learning: Language Policy and Pedagogical Practice Language Problems and Language Planning (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2019-03-22 Tom Morton
This article reviews Content and Language Integrated Learning: Language Policy and Pedagogical Practice
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The complementary nature of linguistic mediation in transnational adoption mobility Language Problems and Language Planning (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2018-06-28 Alice Fiorentino
Abstract In order to explore why people in multilingual contexts choose one mediation strategy or another, we conducted case studies involving short-term mobility for adoption purposes. For parents who adopt a child born in a different country, the experience necessitates a range of linguistic strategies that include language learning, interpreting and translation services, lingua francas, and intercomprehension
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Mediation choice in immigrant groups Language Problems and Language Planning (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2018-06-28 Nune Ayvazyan,Anthony Pym
Abstract An interview survey of 51 members of Russian-speaking groups in the Salou area of southern Catalonia indicates the use of several modes of mediation to solve language problems. Professional written translators tend to be employed for official documents and high-risk situations only, whereas professional interpreters tend not to be used; family members and friends are usually preferred. There