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Showing 1 to 20 of 46 for “"Language Planning"”.
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Language Planning and Education: The Case of Namibia
… assumptions underlying the Namibian English-only language policy stated in Article 3(1) of The Constitution of the Republic of Namibia (1990). The document stipulates educational provision for Namibian learners who belong to multilingual, ethnolinguistic and socio-economic groups. Since this …
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NDF-Based API for Human-assisted Language Planning (HaLP)
… show the promise of LLMs for generalizable task planning. Challenges in integrating LLM for high-level planning include outputting infeasible or sub-optimal plans, but the potentials include cultural commonsense to reason about high-level tasks on par with a human. Related works will generate …
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Language ecology and language planning in Chiang Rai Province, Thailand.
'Language Ecology and Language Planning in Chiang Rai, Thailand' had three main aims: to study the language ecology and sub-ecologies of Chiang Rai province, to study the factors and forces that affect the language ecology, and to study language plans and language policies in Chiang Rai. This study …
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Language planning and social transformation in the Limpopo Province: The role of language in education
Please read the abstract in the section 00front of this document
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Translation and interpreting as instruments of language planning in South Africa : focus on court interpreting
… Apart from English and Afrikaans, ten other languages, including South African Sign Language, have acquired official status. This linguistic dispensation should allow every citizen access to fair justice and a fuller participation in the democratisation process at all levels. It is obvious …
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Language Planning in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Analysis of the Role of Translators as Agents in Language Change
Language planning and policy (LPP) in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) has been constructed on the basis of a standard language ideology that has often excluded the speakers from the language legitimisation process. The LPP efforts for the Bosnian language have led to conflicting covert and overt …
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Where language is made: language planning at the intersections of national and international literacy and language work
… fully in U.S. culture and economy. Accordingly, language planning projects (e.g. anti-bilingual education legislation and the English-Only Movement) aim to eradicate language differences and, with them, the need to develop resources and nurture attitudes that support linguistic plurality. The …
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The Impact of Language Planning and Policy on High School Long-term English Language Learners in a Selected North Texas Urban District
Language policy reform movements have increased accountability in order for schools to improve student achievement and measure the progress of English language learners. The number of English language learners (ELLs) has grown significantly in the school population, yet the level of academic …
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Taalbeplanning : die stand en toekoms van taalbeplanning vir Afrikaans in 'n multitalige Suid-Afrika
LANGUAGE PLANNING: THE PRESENT SITUATION AND THE FUTURE OF LANGUAGE PLANNING FOR AFRIKAANS IN A MULTI-LINGUAL SOUTH AFRICA. The hypothesis underlying this study is the following: The fact that the position of Afrikaans is under siege at present can be attributed, among others, to the years of …
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‘Shifting the Landscape’, Indigenous Immersion and Bilingual Education in Mexico:Tosepan Kalnemachtiloyan. Language planning, Buen Vivir, and Representations of indigenous identity in the Sierra de Puebla, Mexico
… often perceived as distant. I examined the language planning within Tosepan Kalnemachtoliyan. Their work for indigenous language revitalization, and their inclusion of indigenous knowledge and values in the curriculum, seem to enable students to 'reframe' their indigenous identity in a …
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The change of language and the language of change : a consideration of some of the assumptions behind non-governmental language planning projects : implications for language in education policy
Language planning and language policy are currently being debated by both politicians and educationists. Language policy is seen by both Afrikaner nationalists and some progressive educationists as the key to political and economic power. This dissertation argues that language policy-making alone …
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INVESTIGATING THE INFLUENCE OF SINGAPORE'S LANGUAGE POLICIES ON FAMILY LANGUAGE POLICY AMONG TAMIL-INDIAN PARENTS IN SINGAPORE
Language planning in the multilingual city-state of Singapore has been characterized by a complex set of campaigns and policies aimed at maximizing economic competitiveness and increasing national cohesion, while simultaneously preserving the country’s ethnic heritage and multicultural identity. …
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Han’gŭlization and romanization: two models of script change
Script change is a branch of language planning and language policy. To assist language planners and policy makers with their endeavors, I have performed a Qualitative Research Synthesis to determine if the Han’gŭlization of Korean and the Romanization of Turkish are two distinct models of script …
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"Hands off our language!" Deaf sign language teachers' perspectives on sign language standardisation
… of codified standard varieties of British Sign Language (BSL) and German Sign Language (Deutsche Gebclrdensprache, DGS), there have been repeated calls for the standardisation of both languages primarily from outside the deaf communities. The development of standard varieties has been suggested …
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A linguistic description of spoken Brunei English in the 1990s
… the study is concerned with the pedagogical and language planning implications of recognizing the existence of a Bruneian variety of English, and with proposing an appropriate English language teaching model for the Bruneian education system.
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Phonetic Features in Language Production: An Experimental Examination of Phonetic Feature Errors
… us about the function of phonetic features in language planning have come from examinations of naturally occurring speech error corpora (Shattuck-Hufnagel & Klatt, 1979, Stemberger, 1982). Four experiments were conducted to examine unambiguous feature errors in error elicitation tasks. …
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A sociolinguistic profile of Mamelodi and Atteridgeville : its role in language policy development at local government level
… Metropolitan Area) - including reference to language use, knowledge, behaviour, status and attitudes. A questionnaire reflecting the principles of inter-methodological cross-validation was developed as research instrument in order to attain a sociolinguistic profile of the areas under …
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Kia mate rā anō a Tama-nui-te-rā: reversing language shift in Kōhanga reo
This thesis focuses on reversing language shift (RLS) efforts via the revernacularisation of te reo Māori (the Māori language) in Te Amokura Kōhanga Reo (Māori language nest). J. Fishman’s (2001a) graded intergenerational disruption scale (GIDS), and M. Durie’s (2001, 2003) discussions on Māori …
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Garifuna: the birth and rise of an identity through contact langugage and contact culture
Garífuna is the language of the Garífuna people, African descendants who live mostly on the Atlantic coast of Belize, Guatemala and Honduras (including some communities in the United States). Labeled linguistically as an Arawak language, Garífuna also displays influences from other languages as a …
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A Framework for LLM-based Lifelong Learning in Robot Manipulation
… increasingly they are being guided by large language model planners that decompose complex tasks into subgoals. Recent works indicate that these language models may also be effective skill learners. We develop HaLP 2.0, a modular and extensible framework for lifelong learning in …
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