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Resistance and Adaptation to Newspeakerness in Educational Institutions: Two Tales from Estonia
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Soler, Josep; Marten, Heiko F. – Language Policy, 2019
The term 'new speaker' has recently emerged as an attempt by sociolinguists not only to understand the different types of speaker profiles that can be found in contemporary societies, but also to grasp the underlying processes of becoming a legitimate speaker in a given society. In this article, we combine the results from two studies situated in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sociolinguistics, Language Attitudes, Language Usage
The Internationalisation of Higher Education in Two Different Contexts: Catalan and Estonian Sociolinguistic Perspectives
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Soler-Carbonell, Josep; Gallego-Balsà, Lídia – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2016
The topic of the internationalisation of academia has recently attracted attention from sociolinguists and language-policy scholars. In this paper, we compare two different universities from two contrasting contexts in Europe in order to find out more about their projected stance [Jaffe, A. (2009). Stance in a Corsican School: Institutional and…
Descriptors: International Education, Language Planning, Higher Education, Comparative Education
Estonianization Efforts Post-Independence
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Rannut, Mart – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2008
The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the sociolinguistic situation in Estonia. The paper opens with a historic overview, followed by an overview of the current demographic situation and of post-Soviet language and education policies and practices. It is argued that Estonia represents a success story in terms of language policy,…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Negative Attitudes, Official Languages, Foreign Countries
Cultural and Linguistic Diversity of the Baltic States in a New Europe
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Savickien, Ineta; Kaledaite, Violeta – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2005
Language questions are increasingly on the agenda in Europe. This paper addresses some problematic aspects of language teaching and learning that have come to the fore in the Baltic states after the European Union enlargement of 2004. First, the paper aims at providing relevant information about language policies in the former USSR and the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Multilingualism, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)