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Showing 1 to 20 of 175 for “"language policy"”.
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Language policy implementers: Faculty perspectives on language policy at a Southeastern U.S. University
Faculty members, as language policy implementers, retain significant control of the enactment of policy in local contexts. In order to better understand the relationship between de jure language policies at multiple levels of the policy hierarchy, in addition to faculty members? acceptance or …
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Language Policy, Protest and Rebellion
The hypothesis that language discrimination contributes to protest and/or rebellion is tested. Constitutional language policy regarding administrative/judicial, educational and other matters is measured on three separate scales developed for this study; the status of each minority group's language …
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Education Language Policy and Bilingual Education: The Impact of French Language Policy in Primary Education in Niger
… program which advocates the use of regional languages (Hausa, Zarma-Songhai, Fulfulde, Kanuri and Tamajeq) along with French in primary education. The regional languages must serve first as means of instruction from first up to fourth grade, while French is taught as a subject; and in fifth …
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Internationalizing Illinois: English language policy at UIUC
… undergraduate students with English language policy at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in order to better understand the larger issue of language ideology and language practices amid the context of the internationalization of higher education in a …
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Elites, Language Policy and Political Integration in Hyderabad
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Analysis of language policy implementation in basic education
… that comprises of eleven official languages post the apartheid era” (Pluddeman et al, 2004: 13-14). The apartheid era saw only “English and Afrikaans recognised as languages of official status across the nation even though indigenous languages existed in the country” (Cakata & …
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Essays on the Economics of Language and Language Policy
… concerns the economic dimensions of second language knowledge and acquisition and the economic implications of language policies. The value of the ability to speak and understand a second language depends on the extent to which it enlarges one's communicative sphere which, in turn, depends …
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The EMI content lecturer as a language policy broker
… 2023). In Flanders, Dutch is the official language, which serves as the standard medium of education at all levels. Now heavily protected, Dutch’s role as an academic language is the result of a sociolinguistic and language policy shift throughout the 20th century, when higher education …
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European Union Accession and the Future of Croatian Language Policy
… paper examines the past and present of Croatian language policy and advances expectations for the future of said policy. I first provide background on the present state of language policy in Croatia, namely how Croatian language policy has been formulated with the intention of widening the …
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Whose French? Authority and public discourse in language policy debates
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2024-09-16 without embargo terms
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Local language policy: shifting scales in the English-only movement
This dissertation examines how language policymakers in the United States write, discuss, and resist local English-only policies. By tracing the trajectories of four interconnected, local campaigns to make English the official language, I show that such policies are not static texts or abstract …
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Elementary school teachers' attitudes towards multilingualism and language policy: Kazan, Russia
… approach to study schools as sites of language policy implementation. Contributions of language policy, TESOL and multilingual education, and linguistic anthropology help understand the role of teachers in language education. Of particular interests are teachers’ attitudes towards …
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Sites of indigenous language practice : geography of American Indian language policy
… in the United States, speaking their native language has become a rare opportunity. There are several obstacles standing in their way, from geographically separated communities to hundreds of years of contrarian policies and sometimes a collective lack of interest. Today, indigenous language …
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Idioma com a veu: Teacher perspectives on language policy in Catalonia
This qualitative study explores the dimensions of language learning and identity development through the eyes of language teachers in the Catalonia region of Spain. Three interviews with teachers from the greater Barcelona area as well as the Tarragona province are of primary focus to this …
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The war and siege: language policy and practice in Gibraltar, 1940-1985
My thesis explores language policy and practice in the history of the people of Gibraltar between 1940 and 1985. This period covers the wartime Evacuation and the Spanish border restrictions and closure, and it is also fundamental in the emergence of Gibraltarian identity and democratic rights. My …
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Toward a theory of positive psychology in supporting child-centred family language policy
… psychology in the design of child-centred family language policy (FLP) to support home language maintenance in transnational bilingual families with young children learning two or more languages simultaneously at home. This study aims to understand and describe how FLP is co�constructed by the …
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Dual language bilingual education program implementation : teacher language ideologies and local language policy
… the top-down implementation process of a dual language bilingual education (DLBE) program in over 60 schools in a large urban school district in Texas to identify language ideologies and issues of language policy and policy implementation according to local participating educators. Drawing on a …
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Policy Processes in Relation to Language in Tanzania: Examining Shifts in Language Policy
… the new global agenda involves the politics of language. In the case of the African continent and other developing nations worldwide, language policy has become one of the most contested factors linked to achieving the 'global imperative.' Language is particularly vital because of its purported …
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Living Language Policy Through Stratified Space: A Linguistic Ethnography in the United Arab Emirates
This project explores the lived language policy experiences of a group of foreign residents (noncitizens with fixed-term visas) who live in Ras Al Khaimah, a small city in the United Arab Emirates. The primary set of participants are staff and students recruited from a private language school in …
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University language policy management: the case of a university of technology in South Africa
The present study examined language policy management in higher education institutions in South Africa using a University of Technology as a case study. The first objective of the study was to ascertain the extent of students’ language learning problems that manifest at the University of Technology …
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