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Yi-Li Lin; Fang-Huai Ku; Yu-Shan Ku; Jean F. Andrews – Deafness & Education International, 2024
Incorporating Taiwanese Sign Language (TSL) evolved from Taiwan's historical linguistic ecology and intertwined with the linguistic ecology of Taiwan's Deaf community. Utilising a qualitative document analysis incorporating a language planning and policy framework [Cooper, R. L. (1989). Language planning and social change. Cambridge University…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sign Language, Deafness, Legislation
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Alessandra Ferrer; Tzu-Bin Lin – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Since the late 1980s, Taiwan has moved away from Mandarin-only language policy in favour of greater recognition of local Taiwanese languages as part of a greater localisation movement. While continuing to implement language policies aimed at promoting local Taiwanese languages, in December 2018, Taiwan announced intent to implement a bilingual…
Descriptors: Official Languages, Language Planning, Bilingualism, Multilingualism
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Lan, Shu-Wen – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2022
Many English-medium instruction (EMI) classrooms in non-Anglophone countries adopt a multilingual stance, using English alongside the host country's local language(s). However, the perceptions of such multilingual practices held by students remain under-researched. Given many Asian countries' current drives to internationalize and diversify their…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Student Attitudes, Multilingualism, Second Language Instruction