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Peer reviewedBright, William – Educational Media International, 1992
Defines and discusses the concept of small languages. Topics addressed include political status; official status (e.g., as a national language); distinctiveness; robustness or the degree of feasibility; social function; education to support the language; functions of literacy; and appropriate technology for use with particular languages. (12…
Descriptors: Appropriate Technology, Global Approach, Language Attitudes, Language Maintenance
Mikes, Melanie – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Education, 1984
Educational practices and problems in Yugoslavia with regard to bilingual education are described. The effect of mother-tongue education on the students' academic achievement and literacy attainment is also examined. (RM)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Education, Comparative Education, Educational Practices
Direct linkLiddicoat, Anthony J. – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2004
Language planning for literacy has typically focused on models of provision of print-based literacy programmes in order to develop widespread literate capabilities in reading and writing. This paper argues that contemporary literacy planning needs to consider more than models of delivery and engage with issues related to defining the nature of…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Literacy, Functional Literacy, Foreign Countries
Smith, Frank – 1993
Multilayered, this book presents as a narrative, a first-person scholarly (but not academic) account of the political and educational conflicts surrounding the question of the development of language and thought. It follows a group of South African graduate students, black and white, including teachers who live in Soweto, as they struggle to…
Descriptors: Apartheid, Cultural Context, Culture Conflict, Foreign Countries
Download full textGarcia, Ricardo L. – 1987
A discussion of the link between a nation's goals and its language education policy looks at four kinds of language education policies reflecting national goals. The paper examines the language education systems of the Soviet Union and the Philippines for evidence of this link. The comparison reveals striking similarities between the systems,…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Comparative Education, Educational Policy, Ethnicity
Peer reviewedRuiz, Richard – Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 1994
A discussion of U.S. language policy formation and planning covers the following: the literacy crisis, education of language minority populations, "official" English movement, gender neutrality, federal legislation, and emerging issues such as the status of Puerto Rico, American Indian languages, foreign language education, and the…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Applied Linguistics, Deafness, English
Peer reviewedKaplan, Robert B. – Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 1994
Fundamental issues in language policy and planning are discussed: language death, language survival, language change, language revival, language shift and expansion, language contact and pidginization or creolization, and literacy development. (Contains 21 references.) (LB)
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Creoles, Diachronic Linguistics, Foreign Countries
