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Download full textCanakli, Levent Ali; Alabay, Sercan – Journal of Education and Learning, 2022
French teaching in Ottoman Turkey found its actual speed with the Tanzimat period (the political reforms made in the ottoman state in 1839). Until the proclamation of the Republic, and even until the 1950s, French was considered the leading carrier of Western culture and civilization in Turkey, and teaching French was deemed necessary. However, it…
Descriptors: French, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Instructional Materials
Direct linkBagwasi, Mompoloki Mmangaka – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2012
This paper argues that the linguistic struggles faced by the Southern African Development Community (the SADC) represent common linguistic struggles found in Africa and the world where some languages are accused of dominating, stifling and suppressing others. However, the language situation within the SADC is interesting because it offers us a…
Descriptors: African Languages, Language Planning, Developing Nations, Foreign Countries
Hassa, Samira – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2012
This study examines language planning as displayed in street names, advertising posters, billboards, and supermarket product displays in three Moroccan cities: Casablanca, Fes, and Rabat. The study reveals somewhat confusing language planning stemming from on-going political, economic, and social transformation in Morocco. More than 50 years after…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Semitic Languages, Foreign Countries, Language Planning
Vincent, Gerard – Francais dans le Monde, 1984
The two principal approaches of the historian and sociologist, one focusing on change and the other focusing on recurrence or continuity, are reconciled for the teacher of French culture to foreign language students. This is accomplished through an examination of the differential time structures of different social levels, an illustration that the…
Descriptors: Cultural Education, Economic Change, Family Life, Foreign Countries
Woods, David R. – 1994
A study investigated four issues in language usage in the Republic of Congo: (1) the extent of intergenerational language shift; (2) patterns in language repertoire; (3) patterns of language usage among four generations, four topics of conversation, and four different locations; and (4) language usage differences in age groups. The languages…
Descriptors: African Languages, Age Differences, Diachronic Linguistics, Foreign Countries
McFerren, Margaret – 1984
The Arabization process in the Maghreb countries--Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia--is unique in that these countries are officially committed to the use of Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) while widespread use of French, a colonial language, persists, and the formal Arabic used in Arabization differs from the colloquial forms used in each country. The…
Descriptors: African History, Arabic, Developing Nations, Educational Policy
