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Bruen, Jennifer; Sheridan, Vera – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2016
This paper considers the impact of geopolitical factors, and in particular the collapse of Communism and EU accession, on language education policy and practice in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). CEE is understood here as referring to the former soviet-controlled, eastern bloc counties of Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, East Germany, Hungary,…
Descriptors: Language of Instruction, Second Language Learning, Social Systems, Social Change
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Klapper, John – Comparative Education, 1992
Traces history of foreign language instruction (predominantly Russian as a result of former Soviet political domination) in the German Democratic Republic prior to unification. Russian instruction, as a tool for ideological control, emphasized receptive skills such as lexis and morphology. Explains changes in content and methods in foreign…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational History, Foreign Countries, Ideology