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Manoj Kumar – Contemporary Education Dialogue, 2024
In the immediate aftermath of Indian Independence in 1947, there was a palpable attempt to replace English with Hindi and other Indian languages to unleash the processes of decolonisation. English was castigated as the language of the British Empire and was seen to be the basis of power and privilege for a handful of English-educated elites. A new…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Official Languages, Indians, Indo European Languages
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Friedman, Debra A. – Applied Linguistics, 2010
This study uses a language socialization approach to explore the role of Ukrainian language instruction in the revitalization of Ukrainian as the national language. Based on 10 months ethnographic observation and videotaping of classroom interaction in two fifth-grade Ukrainian language and literature classrooms, it focuses on corrective feedback…
Descriptors: Socialization, Official Languages, Ideology, Ukrainian