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Ren, Li; Hu, Guangwei – Language Policy, 2013
This article reports a case study of two Chinese-English bilingual families in Singapore and illustrates the importance of incorporating two hitherto disconnected fields of research--family language policy and family literacy practices--to an understanding of early language and literacy acquisition in the familial milieu. Specifically, this work…
Descriptors: Family Literacy, Foreign Countries, Socialization, Ideology
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Weber, Jean-Jacques; Horner, Kristine – Language Policy, 2010
This paper examines how language-in-education policies in European Union member-states have been influenced by EU policies, and how an identical cluster of keywords--which includes in particular diversity, social cohesion, integration, as well as exclusion as their negative counterpart--emerges from and informs language-in-education policies both…
Descriptors: Language of Instruction, Foreign Countries, Language Planning, Educational Policy
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Mangual Figueroa, Ariana – Language Policy, 2013
This article draws on a 23 month ethnographic study of an emerging--newly established and rapidly growing--Latino community in the New Latino Diaspora of the U.S. in order to examine how educators and parents interpret language education policy (LEP). It analyzes how an English as a Second Language director and one undocumented Mexican mother…
Descriptors: Citizenship, Language Planning, Educational Legislation, Educational Policy
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Lee, Hikyoung; Lee, Kathy – Language Policy, 2013
Since the 1990s, universities in South Korea have participated in an aggressive movement to globalize their institutions through the medium of English by hiring English-proficient faculty. To attain tenure, faculty must publish in international indexed journals (IIJs), which results in a de facto language policy of publishing in English because…
Descriptors: Publish or Perish Issue, Language Planning, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
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Rios-Aguilar, Cecilia; Gonzalez Canche, Manuel S.; Sabetghadam, Shirin – Language Policy, 2012
Approximately five million English Language Learners (ELLs) attend public schools in the United States. Because the majority of ELLs tend to live in immigrant families, schools become the means to provide ELLs with the English skills necessary to be competent in school and in life. Federal and state policies regarding instructional arrangements…
Descriptors: Evidence, Language Planning, Academic Achievement, Second Language Learning
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Yitzhaki, Dafna – Language Policy, 2010
This paper reports on findings of a study examining attitudes and perspectives toward the public use of Arabic in Israel as reflected by minority and majority group members. Analysis of data from 32 Israeli students--Jewish and Arabs--who participated in a series of focus group sessions yielded two main theoretical constructs that characterize the…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Language Planning, Jews, Language Attitudes
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Wee, Lionel – Language Policy, 2010
Singapore's language policy has no place for either the various dialects of Chinese (the exception is Mandarin), or Singlish (a colloquial variety of English). These have been the targets of government campaigns that aim, as far as possible, to ensure that Singaporeans stop using them. However, it is interesting to observe that government…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Dialects, Public Health, Foreign Countries
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Higgins, Christina – Language Policy, 2010
In the healthcare arena, language policy-related research has thus far been limited to questions about "language access," i.e., whether individuals are supplied with health information in their languages, and whether interpreters for doctor-patient consultations are provided (Martinez 2008; Ngo-Metzger et al. 2003; Partida 2007; Vahabi…
Descriptors: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Prevention, Public Health, International Organizations
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Johnson, David Cassels – Language Policy, 2009
While theoretical conceptualizations of language policy have grown increasingly rich, empirical data that test these models are less common. Further, there is little methodological guidance for those who wish to do research on language policy interpretation and appropriation. The ethnography of language policy is proposed as a method which makes…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Ethnography, Data Collection, Public Policy
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Lane, Pia – Language Policy, 2009
The dimension of language policing that is the focus in this article refers to the management of micro-level language use by a macro-level institution, in this context the Norwegian Language Council, co-constructed with media actors. An important aspect of language policing is the official definition of terms, carried out by bodies like the…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Nationalism, Citizenship, Official Languages
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Kim, Eun Gyong – Language Policy, 2011
This study examines the English language teaching (ELT) policies and measures taken under the United States Army Military Government in Korea (USAMGIK) from 1945 to 1948, in an attempt to illuminate their implications on the current ELT in Korea. The study analyzes data derived from documents of the Korean and the U.S. governments, literature on…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Language Planning
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Kelly-Holmes, Helen; Moriarty, Mairead; Pietikainen, Sari – Language Policy, 2009
The language policies adopted, imposed, or rejected in minority language media highlight the complexities of multilingualism and its regulation or ordering in contemporary contexts. In this article, we discuss convergence and divergence in the language policing of three minority language media contexts, namely Basque, Irish and Sami. All of the…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Multilingualism, Irish, Uncommonly Taught Languages
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Paciotto, Carla; Delany-Barmann, Gloria – Language Policy, 2011
Discontinuities are often found between top-down language education policies and local language policy enactments, as de facto language policymaking results from stakeholders' negotiation and interpretation of policy mandates. Teachers occupy a particular role in the execution of language education policies, as they are the "final…
Descriptors: Expertise, Rural Schools, Language Planning, Immersion Programs
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Friginal, Eric – Language Policy, 2009
This study overviews current threats to the sustainability of the outsourced call center industry in the Philippines and discusses implications for macro and micro language policies given the use of English in this cross-cultural interactional context. This study also summarizes the present state of outsourced call centers in the Philippines, and…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Communication Problems, Industry, Foreign Countries
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Manley, Marilyn S. – Language Policy, 2008
This article qualitatively and quantitatively investigates the Quechua language attitudes and maintenance practices of the members of two non-profit, non-governmental agencies in Cuzco, Peru. Within their respective agency/community contexts, the members of both groups claim to have significantly more positive attitudes toward Quechua and exhibit…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Language Attitudes, Foreign Countries, American Indian Languages
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