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Family Language Policy in the City of Zanjan: A City for the Forlorn Azerbaijani
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Mirvahedi, Seyed Hadi; Jafari, Rasoul – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2021
The study explores language maintenance and shift patterns from a family language policy perspective in Azerbaijani-Farsi bilingual families in the City of Zanjan, Iran. The city is the capital of Zanjan province which is surrounded by Azerbaijani, Kurdish, and Farsi speaking provinces giving it a specific demographic make-up to explore language…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Language Attitudes, Language Role, Language Minorities
A Polity Study of Minority Language Management in China Focusing on Zhuang
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Grey, Alexandra – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2019
This polity study is about the language policy situation in the People's Republic of China (China) with a focus on one official minority language, Zhuang. The paper offers an examination of the language policy and planning (LPP) framework nationally as it relates to official minority languages, and regionally as it relates to the Zhuang minority…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Language Planning, Languages, Foreign Countries
Language Ideologies Mediating Literacy and Identity in Bilingual Contexts
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Martinez-Roldan, Carmen M.; Malave, Guillermo – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2004
This article presents a qualitative case study of a seven-year-old Mexican American student and his family. Using Critical Discourse Analysis, we examine both the child's emergent ideas about language, as expressed in bilingual literature discussions, and his parents' ideological discourses about the use of a minority language in public schools.…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Ideology, Discourse Analysis, Official Languages
Who Wins in Research on Bilingualism in an Anti-Bilingual State?
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Cashman, Holly R. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2006
Despite its multilingual heritage, the USA has a history of linguistic intolerance. Arizona, in the country's desert Southwest, is decidedly anti-bilingual although it has significant non-English-speaking groups, especially Spanish-speaking Mexicans/Mexican-Americans and indigenous groups such as the Navajo, Hopi and Yaqui tribes, among many…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Language Research, Linguistics, Bilingual Education
Language Ideologies: Critical Perspectives on the Official English Movement. Volume 1: Education and the Social Implications of Official Language.
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Gonzalez, Roseann Duenas, Ed. – 2000
This collection of essays addresses the complicated and divisive issues at the heart of the debate over language diversity and the English Only movement in United States public education. Blending social, political, and legal analyses of the ideologies of language with perspectives on the impact of the English Only movement on education and in…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Bilingual Education, Cultural Pluralism, Educational Policy
Language Ideologies: Critical Perspectives on the Official English Movement. Volume 2: History, Theory, and Policy.
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Gonzalez, Roseann Duenas, Ed. – 2001
This collection of essays addresses the complicated and divisive issues at the heart of the debate over language diversity and the English Only movement in United States public education. Blending social, political, and legal analyses of the ideologies of language with perspectives on the impact of the English Only movement on education and in…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Bilingual Education, Cultural Pluralism, Educational Legislation