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Jones, Jennifer M. – Language Policy, 2012
This article reports on the findings of a school ethnographic study of language-in-education policy implementation carried out during a time of intra-tribal conflict in the Sabaot language group. The conflict led to the displacement of significant numbers of Sabaot people from their homes in a linguistically homogenous Sabaot area. Several…
Descriptors: African Languages, Language Planning, Conflict, Ethnography
Fogle, Lyn Wright – Language Policy, 2013
Family language policy refers to explicit and overt decisions parents make about language use and language learning as well as implicit processes that legitimize certain language and literacy practices over others in the home. Studies in family language policy have emphasized the ways in which family-internal processes are shaped by and shape…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Multiple Literacies, Language Usage, Interviews
Pavlenko, Aneta – Language Policy, 2011
The main purpose of the present paper is to draw attention to contexts where two conceptions of linguistic rights--the rights of languages and the rights of speakers--come into conflict. To illustrate such conflict, I will examine justifications of language laws adopted in two post-Soviet countries, Latvia and Ukraine. I will begin with an…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Conflict, Language Role, Monolingualism
de Bres, Julia – Language Policy, 2011
New Zealand's two main government Maori language planning agencies, the Maori Language Commission and the Ministry of Maori Development, have engaged for some time in language planning targeting the attitudes and behaviours of non-Maori New Zealanders towards the Maori language. This activity is undertaken on the basis that the attitudes and…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Foreign Countries, Malayo Polynesian Languages, Ethnic Groups
Schiffman, Harold F.; Weiner, Richard E. – Language Policy, 2012
Until recently, educational language policy in the US has been the chief site of contention about language, as seen in recent initiatives, referenda, and state constitutional amendments. Provision for drivers' licensing testing in languages other than English (LotE), on the other hand, has often exemplified what we call expedient language policy,…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Testing, Certification, Motor Vehicles
Gandara, Patricia; Orfield, Gary – Language Policy, 2012
The United States is home to the largest number of immigrants of any nation (United Nations 2006). In 2005, 38.5 million residents of the U.S. were foreign born. As a result, an increasing number of children in the public schools are either immigrants or the children of immigrants: more than one of every five. Most of these children come from…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Court Litigation, Second Language Learning, Immigrants
Orman, Jon – Language Policy, 2012
This article examines the phenomenon of African migration to post-apartheid South Africa from a language-sociological perspective. Although the subject has been one largely neglected by language scholars, the handful of studies which have addressed the issue have yielded ethnographic data and raised questions of considerable significance for the…
Descriptors: Social Status, Racial Segregation, Ethnography, Foreign Countries
Langman, Juliet – Language Policy, 2014
With shifts in demographics leading to increasingly diverse student populations, and pressures from state educational accountability offices to streamline budgets and improve test scores, teachers at the secondary level are increasingly challenged to support English learners new to US schools. Teachers, often with minimal understanding of second…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Language Planning, Code Switching (Language), Teaching Methods
Perez Baez, Gabriela – Language Policy, 2013
San Lucas Quiavini is a community of Zapotec (Otomanguean) speakers in Oaxaca, Mexico. Since the 1970s, the community has seen large-scale migration to Los Angeles, California, where about half the community now resides. Participant observation and interviews conducted over nine years in both locales, with a focus on interactional patterns in the…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Foreign Countries, Language Acquisition, Ideology
Combs, Mary Carol; Nicholas, Sheilah E. – Language Policy, 2012
This article discusses the effect of Arizona's language policies on school districts serving Native American students. Although these policies were designed to restrict the access of Spanish-speaking immigrant and citizen students to bilingual education programs, their reach has extended into schools and school districts serving Native Americans.…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, American Indians, Bilingual Education, Second Language Learning
Pan, Lin – Language Policy, 2011
This paper investigates the Chinese state's English language ideologies as reflected in official Chinese foreign language education policies (FLEP). It contends that the Chinese FLEP not only indicate a way by which the state gains consent, maintains cultural governance, and exerts hegemony internally, but also shows the traces of the combined…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Ideology, Educational Policy, English (Second Language)
Avni, Sharon – Language Policy, 2012
This article ethnographically analyzes the everyday negotiations of a language policy at a private religious educational institution whose explicit educative mission is the transmission of religious beliefs, values, and practices. Specifically, it explores a Hebrew-only language policy at a Jewish day school located in New York City, and focuses…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Language Planning, Jews, Day Schools
Seloni, Lisya; Sarfati, Yusuf – Language Policy, 2013
This article explores the diminished use of Judeo-Spanish among Jews living in Turkey and asks the following research question: What factors, ideologies, and practices contribute to the demise of Judeo-Spanish? To address this question, we employed life history inquiry based on two oral history archives documenting elderly Turkish-Jewish community…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Foreign Countries, Language Acquisition, Ideology
Fitzsimmons-Doolan, Shannon – Language Policy, 2009
The pluralist narrative of language policies suggests that language policies are influenced by public perceptions of immigrants (Darder 2004; Gonzalez 2000; Pavlenko 2002; Valdes 1997). This paper investigates the relationship between newspaper discourse about language policies and newspaper discourse about immigration. It asks how much key,…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Semantics, Immigration, Immigrants
Leppanen, Sirpa; Piirainen-Marsh, Arja – Language Policy, 2009
Building on an understanding of language policy as continually evolving, emergent and influenced by norms of specific communities and cultures, this paper investigates the practices through which young people negotiate informal language policies when interacting with new media in the context of electronic gaming. We examine how young new media…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Norms, Bilingualism, Computers