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Direct linkUrsula Lanvers – Irish Educational Studies, 2024
The launch of Ireland's first official language education policy Languages Connect, Ireland's Strategy for Foreign Languages in Education 2017--2026 (DES 2017) envisages wide-reaching changes for foreign language learning and teaching, both at primary and secondary sector. This study asks if the policy is equipped to address Ireland's main…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Irish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Download full textSlatinská, Anna; Pecníková, Jana – European Journal of Contemporary Education, 2017
The focal point of the article is Irish language teaching in the Republic of Ireland. Firstly, we deal with the most significant documents where the status of the Irish language is being defined. In this respect, for the purposes of analysis, we have chosen the document titled "20 Year Strategy for the Irish language" which plays a…
Descriptors: Irish, Language Maintenance, Second Language Instruction, Self Concept
O Laoire, Muiris – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2012
The formulation of a languages-in-education policy (LEP) in Ireland illustrates some challenges at the macro- and micro-levels. A clamour for policy has reverberated through language education institutions in Ireland within the last decade. This paper explores and discusses: (1) the trajectory of an LEP in Ireland from initial formulation to…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Language Planning, Official Languages, Multilingualism
Peer reviewedO Buachalla, Seamus – European Journal of Education, 1984
Ireland's policy concerning the use and instruction of the Irish language at all educational levels is traced from early official neglect through early curricular occurrence, resurgence under adverse circumstances, a high point of policy and implementation in the 1940s, and more recent policy confusion. (MSE)
Descriptors: Curriculum, Educational History, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education
Mackey, William F. – 1977
This paper provides a summary of the proceedings of a public lecture and a seminar conducted by William F. Mackey, on "Options for Language Promotion by Means of the Education System" and "Implications of Bilingualism," including the question and answer sessions. Part one, summarizing the lecture, discusses the role of the…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Educational Policy, Language Attitudes
Peer reviewedHuallachain, Colman L. O. – International Review of Education, 1978
This paper considers the declining use of Irish (Gaelic) as a language of instruction in both Ulster and the Republic of Ireland in this century. Policy statements are analyzed. Tables list percentages of primary and secondary schools conducted in Irish, English, or bilingual modes over the decades. (SJL)
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, English
Adams, Karen L., Ed.; Brink, Daniel T., Ed. – 1990
Essays on the campaign to establish English as the United States' official language include: "Official Languages and Language Planning" (Richard Ruiz); "Una lingua, una patria?: Is Monolingualism Beneficial or Harmful to a Nation's Unity?" (David F. Marshall and Roseann D. Gonzalez); "Canadian Perspectives on Official…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Classroom Communication
