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Governance, Policy-Making and Language Revitalisation
This essay reflects on the significance for contemporary language revitalisation programmes of regionalisation, internationalisation, the continued...
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Family Language Policy and Language Transmission in Times of Change
In this chapter Kendall King and Ling Wang view how the field of family language policy has evolved and expanded in recent decades against a...
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English Language Teaching Development in the Midst of Morocco’s Continuing Language Policy Conundrum
Language policy in multilingual Morocco has been extremely controversial and largely politicized. It has historically sparked an enormous debate and...
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Arabisation as an Act of Linguistic and Cultural Restoration and Language Policy
This chapter discusses the attempts of the Algerian government after independence to restore the Arabic language in education and administration...
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“What is language for us?”: Community-based Anishinaabemowin language planning using TEK-nology
Language planning and policy (LPP), as a field of research, emerged to solve the “problem” of multilingualism in newly independent nation-states....
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Detached implementation: Discourse and practice in minority language use in Romania
The paper focuses on minority language policy implementation in Romania. Although the policy framework of minority language use is considered quite...
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Assessment for Learning in the Brazilian High-School EFL Context: The Case of Digital Genres
This chapter presents a case study where assessment-for-learning tasks have been implemented in the Brazilian high-school...
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Individual language advocates and managers
In a theory of language policy, managers are individuals or institutions with authority to require others to change their language practices or...
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Educators’ construction of mainstreaming policy for English learners: a decision-making theory perspective
Increasingly across the U.S. and other industrialized democracies, teachers take dual classroom roles as both content and English language educators....
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Appropriating ELT in Colombia: A Critical Call to Localize Language Teaching
For many years, English has been consolidated as the most important foreign language to teach and learn in Colombia. Governments together with other...
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Language policy and transitional justice: rights and reconciliation
Transitional justice (TJ) scenarios are where a society is moving from war to peace or from authoritarianism to democracy. A key goal of TJ is to...
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English and French bilingual education and language policy in Cameroon: the bottom-up approach or the policy of no policy?
Cameroon, host to around 280 local languages, two European official languages (English and French) and Pidgin English, has been struggling since the...
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The Mythic and the Authentic Value of English in the African Classroom: A Policy Perspective
Since the earliest days of colonial rule, the English language has held pride of place in formal education curricula across the swathes of Africa...
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Policy of Name and Naming: Multicultural Aspects
Multicultural contact invites name policies. They may affect personal names in their morphology and/or spelling (diacritics). At pivotal points in...
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The (un)making and (re)making of Guangzhou’s ‘Little Africa’: **aobei’s linguistic and semiotic landscape explored
Partly as a result of China’s reform and opening-up and the broader trend of globalisation, Guangzhou in Southern China has risen to global...
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Afterword: Conviction, Advocacy and Resilience
The author highlights important aspects of his background and career, then addresses salient points in the individual chapters, connecting these to...
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Commentary: EMI in Vietnamese Universities—The Importance of Institutional Preparation, Consultation and Support
This commentary reviews three chapters which describe the experiences of implementing EMI programmes in Vietnamese universities. It is clear from...
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English Language Policies and Practice in the World: From Problems Toward Solutions
There is increasing attention to granting wider access to education through English as a medium of instruction (EMI) in many parts of the world. This...
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Language Policy and Planning in Romani
This chapter outlines language policy and planning (LLP) efforts in Romani, where linguistic, geographical and sociocultural heterogeneity pose...