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Evans, Stephen – Language Policy, 2011
The 2010-2011 academic year marked the beginning of a new chapter in the long and controversial history of medium-of-instruction (MOI) policy in Hong Kong. Under the government's "fine-tuning" policy, schools hitherto compelled to use Chinese as the MOI have been given more scope to teach in English at junior secondary level, thereby…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Policy, Educational History, Language of Instruction
Krzyzanowski, Michal; Wodak, Ruth – Language Policy, 2011
This paper explores the interplay between the politics and policies of multilingualism by looking at the role of political macro-strategies in shaping language and multilingualism policies within the European Union. The paper focuses on the relationship between the European Union's 2000-2010 Lisbon Strategy on the European Knowledge-Based Economy…
Descriptors: Democracy, Multilingualism, Language Planning, Foreign Countries
Hiss, Florian – Language Policy, 2013
The study focuses on local people's expressions of attitudes and ideologies in the light of proposed Sami-Norwegian bilingual policies in their Northern Norwegian hometown. The local politicians' plan to introduce the bilingual regulations of an "administrative area for the Sami language" in the town of Tromso encountered conflicting…
Descriptors: Ideology, Bilingualism, Norwegian, Language Role
Georgiou, Vasiliki – Language Policy, 2011
This paper presents key insights from the analysis of a language debate in Cyprus, triggered when a number of individuals and groups refused to endorse the standardisation of the orthography of place names and the argumentation through which it was supported. The paper is based on a collection of newspaper texts and related documents and is…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Persuasive Discourse, Ideology, Foreign Countries
Armstrong, Timothy Currie – Language Policy, 2012
Ideology can be understood as a guide to action, and therefore, language ideology can be viewed as a link between language ability on the one hand, and language use on the other. In this respect, language ideology plays a central role in the success of language revitalization movements. In an effort to understand how new language ideologies are…
Descriptors: Language Dominance, Language Role, Ideology, Language Planning
Kristinsson, Ari Pall Kristinsson – Language Policy, 2012
The article addresses the actual and perceived roles of national organisations and bodies, such as language "academies" or "councils", in recent history. In particular, the article seeks to shed light on the question what may prompt national governments in modernity and late modernity to establish and fund such bodies to…
Descriptors: Evidence, Foreign Countries, War, Ideology
Gafaranga, Joseph; Niyomugabo, Cyprien; Uwizeyimana, Valentin – Language Policy, 2013
An invitation to integrate macro and micro level analyses has been extended to researchers as this integration is felt to be the way forward for language policy research (Ricento, Ideology, politics and language policies: Focus on english, John Benjamins, Amsterdam, 2000). In turn, the notion of 'micro' in language policy has been specified as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Planning, African Languages, Case Studies
Krizsán, Attila; Erkkilä, Tero – Language Policy, 2014
This article explores the multilingual and multicultural aspects of community-building, networking and communication in the European Union's (EU) political and administrative system. We investigated the networking and communicative preferences of EU civil servants and lobbyists using survey data and thematic interviews. Our aim was to gain a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multilingualism, Public Service, Cultural Pluralism
Tosi, Arturo – Language Policy, 2011
An informal organisation that is becoming quite influential in the spread of Italian in Italy, as well as abroad, is the "Accademia della Crusca" which began its activities during the Renaissance, under quite different auspices. Founded in Florence in 1582-1583, this Academy was inspired by the theories of Pietro Bembo (1470-1547), a…
Descriptors: Literature Appreciation, Foreign Countries, Italian, Organizations (Groups)
Abdelhay, Ashraf Kamal; Makoni, Busi; Makoni, Sinfree Bullock – Language Policy, 2011
This article provides a textual analysis of the Naivasha language provisions in Sudan in an attempt to explore how political discourse is manifested in each policy statement. Using Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) as an analytic and interpretive framework, the article argues that the Naivasha language provisions as political discourse are shaped…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Discourse Analysis, Position Papers, Foreign Countries
Langston, Keith; Peti-Stantic, Anita – Language Policy, 2011
There are three main institutions in Croatia today that are actively engaged in language management activities on the national level: The Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, The Council for the Norms of the Croatian Standard Language, and the Institute for the Croatian Language and Linguistics. Their efforts are focused on establishing the…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Language Variation, Foreign Countries, Organizations (Groups)
Ni Ghearain, Helena – Language Policy, 2011
This article analyses the findings of a study which investigated the hypothesis--based thus far on anecdotal evidence--that Irish speakers in traditional Gaeltacht areas do not accept official terminology planning, both in terms of their language practices and beliefs. While the findings provide some qualitative support for the hypothesis, in…
Descriptors: Political Attitudes, Irish, Language Acquisition, Native Speakers
Palmer, Deborah; Henderson, Kathryn; Wall, Dorothy; Zúñiga, Christian E.; Berthelsen, Stefan – Language Policy, 2016
This article documents and interrogates top-down district-wide implementation of a two-way dual language bilingual education (DLBE) program in a large urban district. We carried out a language policy ethnography to explore the way two schools' teams of third grade teachers worked together to negotiate the intersection of DLBE implementation and…
Descriptors: Team Teaching, Language Planning, Teacher Collaboration, Faculty Development
Coelho, Fabio Oliveira; Henze, Rosemary – Language Policy, 2014
This article describes and analyzes how rural Nicaraguan teachers and NGO leaders are working with a US university-based team to develop a locally responsive, critical, and inquiry-based approach to the Ministry of Education requirement for English in secondary school. This requirement has placed a new and challenging expectation upon rural…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Planning, Rural Areas, Educational Policy
Patrick, Donna; Budach, Gabriele; Muckpaloo, Igah – Language Policy, 2013
This study investigates the intersection of family language policy with Indigenous multiliteracies and urban Indigeneity. It documents a grassroots Inuit literacy initiative in Ottawa, Canada and considers literacy practices among Inuit at a local Inuit educational centre, where maintaining connections between urban Inuit and their homeland…
Descriptors: Family Literacy, Eskimo Aleut Languages, Eskimos, Foreign Countries