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Bilingual education rejected: English-only despite Lau Lang. Policy (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-09-17 Sarah C. K. Moore, John Chi
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Community-based and formal Chinese language education in urban California, 50 years after Lau v. Nichols Lang. Policy (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-30 David Shuang Song
Through ethnographic fieldwork and sociological theory drawing from French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, this article describes possibilities and restrictions for Chinese language education for Chinese-diasporic youth in the San Francisco area, 50 years after Lau v. Nichols. I examine four sites of this education, all of which serve these youth across a range of socioeconomic and language backgrounds in
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Principal agency 50 years after the Lau decision: Building and sustaining bilingual education programs for Asian languages Lang. Policy (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-22 Zhongfeng Tian, Kevin M. Wong
This study examined how three champion principals of Asian language dual language bilingual education (DLBE) programs—Cantonese, Korean, and Mandarin—in California have navigated the oscillating language-in-education policies after the Lau decision. We explored principals' various roles through a lens of agency in a social justice leadership framework, specifically considering the opportunities and
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English-medium teachers as policymakers through critical translingual literacy instruction Lang. Policy (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-14 Mary Amanda Stewart, Alexandra Babino, Victor Antonio Lozada, Ángeles Muñoz, Zulma Mojica
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Reflections on Lau: A historical perspective Lang. Policy (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-14 Kenji Hakuta, Sarah C. K. Moore
This paper is describes the author’s personal involvement with issues of policy and implementation that were sparked by the Lau decision. Topics included are student assessment, the bilingual education wars, the role of research, the paradigm shift with the advent of standards, and California state policy in the education of English learners.
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Attitudes of Dalit students and teachers towards English: a language of Dalit emancipation? Lang. Policy (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-19 S. Ramamoorthy, Sunita Mishra
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“Because guess what? I don’t even want to speak English”: English as an obstacle for the development of multilingualism at a South African institution Lang. Policy (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-08 David Lasagabaster
South Africa immediately springs to mind as the epitome of multilingual language policies. In fact, its Constitution granted official status to 11 languages in 1996, and the Language Policy in Higher Education passed by the Ministry of Education in 2002 required universities to develop and use the indigenous official languages as academic languages, in addition to Afrikaans and English. With this multilingual
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A genealogical inquiry into raciolinguistic ideology and language policy among Spanish Franciscan missionaries in Alta California Lang. Policy (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-06 Cory A. Buckband
This paper utilizes raciolinguistic genealogy (Flores, in International Journal of the Sociology of Language 2021:111–115, 2021) to explore an historical case study of Spanish Franciscan missionaries in Alta California during an early period of colonization spanning the seventeenth-nineteenth centuries. In the study, I apply a raciolinguistic lens to investigate the racialized and racist basis for
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The impact of language education policies on Irish sign language in Irish deaf education Lang. Policy (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-06 John Bosco Conama
This article will explore the impact of various language education policies and their measures on Irish Sign Language (ISL) in Irish deaf education. The focus will be on how previous and current policy decisions regarding language education have affected the use and recognition of ISL as a legitimate language in the education system. The article will discuss both deaf schools and mainstream schools
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Bill 7633 on the restriction of the use of Russian text sources in Ukrainian research and education: analysing language policy in times of war Lang. Policy (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-05 Tetyana Lunyova, Ursula Lanvers, Oksana Zelik
For centuries, Ukraine has been a site of conflicts over language rights. During 70 years of Soviet leadership, Ukraine experienced’relentless Russification’ (Reznik in Language of conflict: discourses of the Ukrainian crisis (pp. 169–191). Bloomsbury Publishing, London, 2020 p. 170). After breaking from Soviet rule, the Ukrainian language became an increasingly powerful symbol and means of national
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English medium instruction in Ethiopian university mission statements and language policies Lang. Policy (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Tolera Simie, Jim McKinley
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Classroom implementation by Masbatenyo public elementary teachers of the mother tongue-based multilingual education policy: a case study Lang. Policy (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Bernard M. Barruga
This study aimed to explore the implementation of the Mother Tongue-Based Multilingual Education (MTB-MLE) policy by public elementary teachers in the Philippines through a case study approach. Specifically, the study sought to examine how three elementary teachers in one public school institution distinctively implement the MTB-MLE policy in their classrooms. The study used a qualitative research
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Language revitalization through a social movement lens: grassroots Galician language activism Lang. Policy (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Bernadette O’Rourke, Alejandro Dayán-Fernández
In this article, a social movement lens is applied to examine the dynamics of an urbanbased language revitalization movement in the Autonomous Community of Galicia (North-western Spain). The potential of Resource Management Theory is explored as a way of systematically analysing the dynamics of urban-based language revitalization movements. It does this by identifying factors which both helped fuel
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A raciolinguistic perspective on career readiness standards in career and technical education: Professionalism and communication skills as white linguistic practices Lang. Policy (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Mark R. Emerick, Pauline E. LeMaster
In this paper, we draw on raciolinguistic ideologies and chronotopes to critique career readiness, a race-evasive educational policy discourse that purportedly benefits all students, as grounded in white linguistic ideologies. Drawing on critical discourse analysis, we analyze state-level career readiness policy documents from Pennsylvania and interviews with teachers and administrators from an ethnographic
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Choosing is losing: language policy and language choice acts at the asylum law firm Lang. Policy (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Marie Jacobs
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“Maybe it was a shield, you know”: Exploring family language policy through the lens of perezhivanie Lang. Policy (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-08 Polina Vorobeva, Dmitri Leontjev
The current study builds an argument for using Vygotskian perezhivanie as a theoretical perspective to explore the becoming and being of family language policy (FLP). We shift the focus from the three components constituting FLP – language beliefs or ideologies, language practices, and language planning or management – to the individual. Namely, we suggest focusing on the individuals who sift their
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How stable is a family’s language policy? Multilingual families’ beliefs, practices, and management across time Lang. Policy (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-01 Ily Hollebeke
The dynamic nature of multilingual families and their language policies has been touched upon by numerous studies. Adding to the field, the present study assesses the stability of family language policy in a standardised and quantitative manner. To this end, a linguistically heterogenous sample consisting of 488 multilingual families raising young children in Belgium’s Flemish Community was surveyed
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Language and late modernity: An archaeology of statal narratives of multilingualism in the Philippines Lang. Policy (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Dana Osborne
This analysis examines an archaeology of statal narratives as they relate to the multilingual linguistic milieu of the Philippines since independence at mid-20th century. Critical transformations to statal narratives linked to language over the last century have been shaped by interacting, sometimes competing discourses, deriving from a paradoxical mix of influences: on one hand, contemporary narratives
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Ten years later: What has become of FLP? Lang. Policy (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Xiao Lan Curdt-Christiansen, Åsa Palviainen
In this special issue, we focus on how family language policy (FLP) as a field of enquiry has evolved over the ten years since the publication of the first thematic issue on FLP in Language Policy in 2013. We explore how some of the long-standing issues, such as language shift, language status and language attitude, have been addressed through the lens of raciolinguistic and critical theories, and
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Aspirational family language policy Lang. Policy (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-11-06 Corinne A. Seals, Natalia Beliaeva
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Family, a racialized space: A phenomenological approach to examining Afghan refugee families’ language policies in Norway Lang. Policy (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-10-16 Seyed Hadi Mirvahedi
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Has language as resource been the basis for mother-tongue instruction in Sweden? On the evolution of policy orientations towards a uniquely enduring bilingual policy Lang. Policy (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-10-06 Memet Aktürk-Drake
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Digital communication as part of family language policy: the interplay of multimodality and language status in a Finnish context Lang. Policy (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-09-28 Åsa Palviainen, Tiina Räisä
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Language policy from textuality to (re)entextualization: expanding the toolkit for discursive analyses Lang. Policy (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Kristof Savski
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Linguistic trajectories and family language policy from the perspective of multilingual young adults in Mexico Lang. Policy (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-09-13 Dana K. Nelson, Jesahe Herrera Ruano, Rodrigo Parra Gutiérrez, Jesús H. K. Zepeda Huerta
Research into Family Language Policy (FLP) focuses on language planning by and among family members within home spaces. In this study we gather data from multilingual young adults with different backgrounds across Mexico through an online questionnaire. We use a trajectory approach to look at how FLP changes over time and space from the perspective of young adults. Our data provides a diversity of
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Bilingual children’s perceived family language policy and its contribution to leisure reading Lang. Policy (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-09-10 Baoqi SUN, Chin Ee LOH, Mukhlis Abu Bakar, Viniti Vaish
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Pride, prejudice and pragmatism: family language policies in the UK Lang. Policy (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-09-10 Xiao Lan Curdt-Christiansen, Li Wei, Zhu Hua
In this study, we examine how mobility and on-going changes in sociocultural contexts impact family language policy (FLP) in the UK. Using a questionnaire and involving 470 transnational families across the UK, our study provides a descriptive analysis of different family language practices in England and establishes how attitudes influence the different types of FLP in these families. Complementing
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Critical language policy: Investigating ESL department chair’s implementation of AB 705 Lang. Policy (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-07-21 Lee Her
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“I’ve become what I’m trying to fight…”: classroom language policy navigation and embodied critical consciousness Lang. Policy (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-07-01 Rachel Snyder Bhansari
Much recent research examines how teachers navigate language policy in dual language bilingual education (DLBE) classrooms (Cervantes-Soon et al., 2017; Palmer & Martínez, 2013). While previous work has illustrated that teachers’ language use is varied and related to identity, little research has considered the role of emotions in this setting (Benesch, 2020). Drawing on data from a year-long ethnography
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Conceptualisation of family and language practice in family language policy research on migrants: a systematic review Lang. Policy (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-06-28 Priyanka Bose, Xuesong Gao, Sue Starfield, Shuting Sun, Junjun Muhamad Ramdani
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Local linguistic ideologies and Iraqi Turkmens’ experience of forced migration to Turkey: a folk linguistic perspective Lang. Policy (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-06-13 Hasret Saygı, Işıl Erduyan
With the current situation of the political turmoil in Northern Iraq, Turkey has been a natural destination country for thousands of refugees escaping the war, including the Iraqi Turkmens. Being native speakers of Turkmen-Turkish and Arabic, Iraqi Turkmen refugees go through confrontations about linguistic ideologies with the local Turkish community on a daily basis. Drawing on linguistic ethnographic
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Family language policy and language shift in postcolonial Mozambique: a critical, multi-layered approach Lang. Policy (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-05-29 Feliciano Chimbutane, Perpétua Gonçalves
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“What is language for us?”: Community-based Anishinaabemowin language planning using TEK-nology Lang. Policy (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-05-12 Paul J. Meighan
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Navigating competing policy demands: Dual service provision for English learners with disabilities in middle school Lang. Policy (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-05-04 Sara E. N. Kangas, Megan Cook
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Policy formation for adult migrant language education in England: national neglect and its implications Lang. Policy (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-04-08 James Simpson, Ann-Marie Hunter
This article is about current policy in the coordination of opportunities for adult migrants in England to learn English. People who move to a different country experience a need to learn the dominant language of their new environment, to support their settlement. A willingness to learn the language is a marker of social inclusion from a political perspective too: an insistence that migrants have an
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Language policy at an abortion clinic: linguistic capital and agency in treatment decision-making Lang. Policy (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-04-08 Ella van Hest, July De Wilde, Sarah Van Hoof
This paper investigates an abortion clinic’s procedural choices regarding the management of linguistic diversity. It focuses in particular on how language serves as capital for clients’ agency in decision-making regarding their abortion treatment. Based on linguistic-ethnographic fieldwork in a Flemish abortion clinic, we analyse the clinic’s institutional language policy, which states that clients
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Family language policy in retrospect: Narratives of success and failure in an Indian–Iranian transnational family Lang. Policy (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-02-16 Seyed Hadi Mirvahedi, Mona Hosseini
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Re-orienting to language users: humanizing orientations in language planning as praxis Lang. Policy (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2022-11-23 Yalda M. Kaveh
The field of language policy and planning (LPP) has increasingly expanded its focus beyond legislative measures and macro-level policies toward understanding the power of social actors and their interpretation, appropriation, and creation of language policies in societies. This article aims to advance LPP theory and research by offering a critical and decolonial lens for conceptualizing and analyzing
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Examining the implementation of language education policies in mainstream primary schools Lang. Policy (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2022-10-27 Marieke Vanbuel, Kris Van den Branden
Recent studies in the field of language education policy (LEP) have emphasized the agency of educators in language policy implementation, which considerably influences the policy outcome. These studies, however, often focus on LEP measures for newcomers or ethnic minority students, and on the language used for instruction as the main LEP indicator. This study adopts an educational effectiveness framework
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Anglonormativity in Norwegian language education policy and in the educational trajectories of immigrant adolescents Lang. Policy (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2022-09-19 Ingrid Rodrick Beiler
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Four decades after Castañeda: a critical analysis of Bilingual/Dual Language Education in Colorado Lang. Policy (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2022-06-29 Kathy Escamilla, Sheila Shannon, Jorge García
The Castañeda Standard was handed down in 1981. We use this Standard along with Latino Critical Race Theory (Solorzano & Yosso, 2001) and Ruiz’s Language Orientations (1984) to conduct a historical analysis of bilingual education in Colorado from 1976 to 2019 to examine the availability of bilingual/dual language education for Latinx students over four decades. Our historical analysis resulted in dividing
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Typographical advocacy in the age of digital encoding Lang. Policy (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2022-06-27 Iair G. Or
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Language advocacy in times of securitization and neoliberalization: The Network LanguageRights Lang. Policy (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2022-05-20 Mi-Cha Flubacher, Brigitta Busch
In this contribution, we aim to address the following questions: What does it mean to do language advocacy in 2022? Under which conditions does it operate? What are the fights, aims, and challenges? On the one hand, answering these questions heavily depends on the political, social, cultural and linguistic context, as well as on the interests, stakes and positions of the advocacy actors. On the other
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Advocacy strategies for a new multilingual educational policy in Israel Lang. Policy (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2022-04-24 Michal Tannenbaum, Elana Shohamy, Ofra Inbar-Lourie
Advocacy strategies are characterized by collaborations amongst various stakeholders working together to create changes and reforms. In language education policy, this refers to various types of initiatives and activities intended to create language policy reforms on local and/or national levels. In this paper such activities are traced, analyzed and evaluated in relation to language education policies
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Amid signs of change: language policy, ideology and power in the linguistic landscape of urban Rwanda Lang. Policy (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2022-04-19 Tove Rosendal, Jean de Dieu Amini Ngabonziza
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Language test activism Lang. Policy (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2022-04-17 Cecilie Hamnes Carlsen, Lorenzo Rocca
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Motivations for service provision spectrum: needs assessments and language policy approaches Lang. Policy (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2022-04-17 Kathleen Easlick
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Advocating an empirically-founded university admission policy Lang. Policy (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2022-04-17 Bart Deygers, Marieke Vanbuel
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Ari Sherris and Susan D. Penfield (eds): Rejecting the marginalized status of minority languages: educational projects pushing back against language endangerment Lang. Policy (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2022-04-13 Wesley Y. Leonard
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Individual language advocates and managers Lang. Policy (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2022-03-23 Bernard Spolsky
In a theory of language policy, managers are individuals or institutions with authority to require others to change their language practices or beliefs. Advocates are individuals or institutions who want the same result, but lacking any power to enforce, can only try to persuade. Language academies can be managers or advocates. Standardization is often the work of individual language reformers and
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Correction to: Bilingual teacher educators as language policy agents: a critical language policy perspective of the Castañeda v. Pickard case and the bilingual teacher shortage Lang. Policy (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2022-02-08 Sera J. Hernández, Cristina Alfaro, Melissa A. Navarro Martell
In the original publication of the article, the affiliations were incorrectly published. This has been corrected with this Correction. The original article has been corrected.
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Laurie Olsen: A Legacy of Courage and Activism: Stories from the Movement for Educational Access and Equity for English Learners in California. Californians Together, Long Beach, California, 2021, 241 pp, Hb $34.99, ISBN 978–1-7363484–0-6 Lang. Policy (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2022-02-09 Ester J de Jong,Zijing An
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Nelson Flores, Amelia Tseng & Nicholas Subtirelu (eds): Bilingualism for All? Raciolinguistic Perspectives on Dual Language Education in the United States Lang. Policy (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2022-01-23 Reka C. Barton
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Mid-level leaders as key policy interpreters: state and local leaders’ perspectives on leveraging Castañeda to expand equity for English learner students Lang. Policy (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2022-01-18 Madeline Mavrogordato, Rebecca Callahan, Caroline Bartlett
With the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision in Castañeda v. Pickard, for the first time, educators and advocates saw the potential to ensure educational equity for EL students. In spirit, Castañeda offered federal oversight in the provision of educational services for EL-identified students. Castañeda’s three prongs attended to the importance of EL educational inputs i.e., program quality and implementation
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Black lives matter versus Castañeda v. Pickard: a utopian vision of who counts as bilingual (and who matters in bilingual education) Lang. Policy (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2022-01-17 Ramón Antonio Martínez, Danny C. Martinez, P. Zitlali Morales
Castañeda v. Pickard established a precedent for evaluating bilingual programs in relation to the soundness of the educational theory on which they are based. However, this notion of theoretical soundness was grounded in an underlying logic that ultimately framed emergent multilingual students as a protected class—or vulnerable population in need of Federal protection. Given the particular demographic
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Is English the world’s lingua franca or the language of the enemy? Choice and age factors in foreign language policymaking in Iran Lang. Policy (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2022-01-11 Mazlum, Farhad
Choosing which additional language to include in national curricula and when to begin teaching it are important educational policy decisions. The current study aims to provide a contextually embedded picture of such policymaking process in the Iranian context. More specifically, the study is intended to explain the agency mechanism of different actors involved in the choice of foreign languages and
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Beyond Castañeda and the “language barrier” ideology: young children and their right to bilingualism Lang. Policy (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2022-01-05 Castro, Dina C., Meek, Shantel
Forty years ago, the Castañeda v. Pickard landmark case marked an important milestone in the fight for equitable education for English learners1 in law, and for the first time linked theory, resources, and outcomes. Notwithstanding the important progress it marked in advocating for greater resources for English learners and accountability for education systems, the central goal of the Castañeda Standard
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Is language a ‘right’ in U.S. education?: unpacking Castañeda’s reach across federal, state, and district lines Lang. Policy (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2022-01-05 Coady, Maria R., Ankeny, Brian, Ankeny, Raisa
Castañeda v. Pickard (648 F.2d 989, [5th Cir. 1981]) was a significant legal case in the history of educational policy for non-native English-speaking students in the United States. The case established a three prong ‘test’ for programs for those students, including the right for students to have an educational program based on sound educational theory; resources and personnel to properly implement
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Bilingual teacher educators as language policy agents: A critical language policy perspective of the Castañeda v. Pickard case and the bilingual teacher shortage Lang. Policy (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2022-01-05 Hernández, Sera J., Alfaro, Cristina, Martell, Melissa A. Navarro
Drawing on decades of lessons from a Bilingual Teacher Education Program (BTEP) in California that has persevered both restrictive and additive federal and state educational language policies, this manuscript provides an ethnographic snapshot of how this BTEP has strategically navigated through and around anti-immigrant ideologies and policies to survive incessant attacks on bilingual education and