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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
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
Mackey, William F. – 1987
Second-language and native-language methodologies are equally inappropriate as a foundation for the language training of cultural minorities. Second-language methodologies are based on the assumption that the language is to be acquired in school, as either a subject or a school activity. The relationship between teaching and learning is taken for…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Classroom Techniques, Educational Objectives, Educational Strategies
Online Submission, 2005
There are at least 6,000--7,000 languages spoken in the world today, with over half of them endangered. And 61 percent of the endangered languages are within the Asia and Pacific Region. The publication is a report derived from the Regional (Asia and Pacific Region) Workshop on Mother Tongue/Bilingual Literacy Programs for Ethnic Minorities, held…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Written Language, Workshops, Pilot Projects
Bottani, Norberto – 1986
The member countries of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development generally provide monolingual basic education, and the imposition of a common language remains one of the political and economic functions of the schools. Multilingual or bilingual education is marginal. The individual states' language policies reflect interests in…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Educational Policy, Equal Education, Foreign Countries
Jenkins, Susan – 1990
The United States is experiencing a change in the school population at all levels of the education system. There is a compelling need to develop an integrated perspective on the literacy needs of the newly diverse population of speakers of English as a Second Language (ESL), so that all language minorities may develop literacy skills for both…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Bilingual Education, Cultural Pluralism, Demography
