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Mooko, Theophilus – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2009
This study explores the language policy and practice of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), an African regional economic organisation made up of 14 member states (Angola, Botswana, Democratic Republic of Congo, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), African Languages, Language Dominance, Language Planning
Laversuch, Iman Makeba – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2008
In 1976, the Seychelles government made Creole its third official language, alongside French and English. Although Creole is the native language for most Seychellois, this language policy change has remained contentious. While some have hailed it as essential to democracy, others have condemned it for widening the nation's socioeconomic divide.…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Creoles, Democracy, Official Languages
Samuelson, Beth Lewis; Freedman, Sarah Warshauer – Language Policy, 2010
The evolution of Rwanda's language policies since 1996 has played and continues to play a critical role in social reconstruction following war and genocide. Rwanda's new English language policy aims to drop French and install English as the only language of instruction. The policy-makers frame the change as a major factor in the success of social…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Language Planning, Official Languages, Language of Instruction
St. Hilaire, Aonghas – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2009
In the postcolonial era, a cultural nationalist movement has sought to elevate the status of St. Lucia's creole vernacular, Kweyol, and with some success--it is now the most visible symbol of St. Lucian national identity. This relatively new development has altered somewhat the historic linguistic status quo between the official, high status…
Descriptors: Nationalism, Public Support, Educational Policy, Foreign Countries
Kouega, Jean-Paul – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2008
This paper presents the beginning of an approach to the study of language use and religion, a sub-area of language and religion that has been little explored. Essential features of the approach include segmenting a religious service into its constituent parts and checking what language is used in what part and for what purpose. The proposed…
Descriptors: Catholics, Language Attitudes, Official Languages, Religion
Association of Canadian Community Colleges, 2009
This report was created in conjunction with the Association of Canadian Community College's (ACCC) review of the federal government's support for post-secondary institutions and their efforts in promoting bilingualism in Canada. Canada's colleges were created or expanded through a partnership of the federal and provincial governments in the 1960s.…
Descriptors: Community Development, Community Colleges, Official Languages, Foreign Countries
Clark, Julie Byrd – Ethnography and Education, 2008
In this paper, I demonstrate how four self-identified multi-generational Italian Canadian youth socially construct their identities and invest in language learning while participating in a French teacher education programme in Toronto, Canada. In doing so, I draw upon critical ethnography and discourse analysis, using multiple field methods to…
Descriptors: Official Languages, Multilingualism, Ethnography, College School Cooperation
Dagenais, Diane; Walsh, Nathalie; Armand, Francoise; Maraillet, Erica – Language Awareness, 2008
Drawing on Language Awareness (LA) approaches developed for francophone classrooms and a sociocultural theoretical perspective on language and learning that posits the genesis of new knowledge construction is situated in social interactions and shaped by socio-historical context, we conducted a small-scale case study of the implementation of LA…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Official Languages, Focus Groups, Elementary Schools
Rajah-Carrim, Aaliya – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2007
Mauritius is a multilingual postcolonial island of the Indian Ocean. Although the French-lexified creole, Mauritian Creole/Kreol, is the native language of 70% of the Mauritian population, it is excluded from the education system. Kreol lacks prestige because it is seen as broken French and associated with the local Creoles, a socioeconomically…
Descriptors: Creoles, Reputation, Language Usage, Language Attitudes
Omoniyi, Tope – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2007
My main contention in this article is that the nation-state paradigm for policies targeted at effecting development in sub-Saharan Africa is undermined by arbitrary colonial boundaries and porous borders and the challenges of transnationalism as part of the globalization phenomenon in late modernity. The nation-state paradigm is also the framework…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Models, Official Languages, Global Approach
Igboanusi, Herbert; Putz, Martin – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2008
In a surprise announcement in December 1996 in a speech at the Nigerian Institute for International Affairs, the late Nigerian Head of State, General Sani Abacha said "Nigeria is resolutely launching a programme of national language training that will in a short order, permit our country to become thoroughly bilingual". General Abacha's…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Official Languages, Foreign Countries, French

Dion, Stephane; Lamy, Gaetane – Language Problems and Language Planning, 1990
Since 1977, businesses in Quebec have been required to use French as their normal working language, and a process of "francization" has been initiated. Progress has been slowed by resistance from businesses, political hesitation, and bureaucracy. The Quebec case suggests that flexible implementation is necessary for a successful, working…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, French, Language Planning, Official Languages

Loos, Eugene – Language Problems & Language Planning, 2000
Refers to Bourdieu's publication "Language and Symbolic Power," to explain the unwillingness of member states of the European Union to grant another language (other than English, French, and to a lesser degree German) recognition: an official language can be considered as linguistic capital that affords holders symbolic power.…
Descriptors: English, French, German, Language Dominance

Oakes, Leigh – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2002
Discusses transformation of the French language policy in Europe that in which the overt promotion of French as the European lingua franca was replaced with new policy promoting multilingualism. Examines the new policy in terms of its intentions and it effectiveness as an identity strategy. Suggests that not only does the policy exclude regional…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, French, Language Role, Multilingualism
Mady, Callie – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2007
In Canada, education in French as a second language (FSL) offers students the opportunity to learn a second official language. Is such an opportunity appropriate for allophone students who are still in the process of learning English? This literature review provides a fourfold consideration of the issue. Section 1 examines the political response…
Descriptors: Official Languages, Learning Processes, Foreign Countries, French