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Direct linkChakrani, Brahim; Huang, Jason L. – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2014
This article investigates overt language attitudes and linguistic practices among French-taught university students in Morocco, showing the relationship between language behavior and attitudes. The results reveal a class-based divide in respondents' patterns of language use, in their support of the French monolingual sanitized classroom, and…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, French, Semitic Languages, Language Variation
Gu, Mingyue – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2014
This article explores language ideologies and language uses in a multilingual university in Hong Kong by exploring the voices and experiences of both mainland Chinese and Hong Kong students. Drawing on the notions of language ideologies, separate multilingualism, and translanguaging, the research illustrates how students' linguistic…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Multilingualism, Universities
Velasco, Patricia – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2014
Mixtecos, members of an Indigenous group from Mexico, have settled in large numbers in New York. Their children are found in bilingual classrooms (Spanish-English), but little is known about parent-school interactions. This work describes the educational ideologies that 23 Mixteco mothers shared during 5 focus group interviews distributed across 9…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Mother Attitudes, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Kuteeva, Maria – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2014
As a result of internationalisation, many universities in northern Europe have adopted English as a medium of instruction. At the same time, recent language policies have reinforced the importance of the national language(s) in the academic domain. Parallel language use was introduced and institutionalised in order to ensure students' right…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, International Education, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Curdt-Christiansen, Xiao Lan – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2014
This article examines how political discourse, language ideologies, recent Chinese curriculum reforms, and their representations in the media are inextricably related. Using the "Speak Mandarin Campaign" as background for the inquiry, I focus on textual features of the various media sources, TV advertisements, campaign slogans, official…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Planning, Chinese, Discourse Analysis
González-Carriedo, Ricardo – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2014
The media in general and newspapers in particular have a powerful influence on the formation of public attitudes in society. This study aimed at identifying and analyzing the ideologies of two newspapers in Arizona in regard to English language learners. Using discourse analysis, 90 texts published by "The Arizona Republic" and the…
Descriptors: Immigration, English Language Learners, Newspapers, Discourse Analysis
De Angelis, Gessica – Intercultural Education, 2014
The present study adopts a multilingual approach to analysing the standardized test results of primary school immigrant children living in the bi-/multilingual context of South Tyrol, Italy. The standardized test results are from the Invalsi test administered across Italy in 2009/2010. In South Tyrol, several languages are spoken on a daily basis…
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, Test Results, Immigrants, Foreign Countries
Lebreton, Marlène – Journal of Research in International Education, 2014
The International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme supports the learning of languages and cultures, but the role of the additional language within this programme is often unclear. There remains a great variability in schools regarding the frequency of lessons and the way that the additional language is taught within the Primary Years…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Cultural Awareness
Crump, Alison – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2014
Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) scholars have recently drawn on critical race theory (CRT) to critique and understand the propagation of Whiteness as a norm associated with native English speakers. However, the area of language studies, more broadly defined, has yet to develop the same link with CRT. To this end, this…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Race, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Gerson, Sarah A.; Woodward, Amanda L. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2014
Understanding the actions of others depends on the insight that these actions are structured by intentional relations. In a number of conceptual domains, comparison with familiar instances has been shown to support children's and adults' ability to discern the relational structure of novel instances. Recent evidence suggests that this…
Descriptors: Infants, Infant Behavior, Goal Orientation, Comparative Analysis
Motha, Suhanthie; Lin, Angel – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2014
In this article, the authors argue that at the center of every English language learning moment lies desire: desire for the language; for the identities that English represents; for capital, power, and images that are associated with English; for what is believed to lie beyond the doors that English unlocks. However, despite its centrality within…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Language Teachers
Selvi, Ali Fuad – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2014
Situated at the intersection of sociolinguistic and educational planes, English as a medium-of-instruction debate has always been at the crux of the intense debates, and offers a lens for a systematic investigation of the spread of English in Turkey. As Turkey is moving toward greater integration with the European Union and promoting its…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language of Instruction, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Earls, Clive W. – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2014
In 2002, English-medium degree programmes (EMDPs) became a permanent feature of German higher education (HE). While this action marked an important step towards government-supported institutionalisation of English in Germany, no formal strategy or guidelines governing the role of English in HE have been developed. To date, research in this area in…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Role, Foreign Countries
Kamwendo, Gregory; Hlongwa, Nobuhle; Mkhize, Nhlanhla – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2014
After the demise of apartheid in South Africa in 1994, 11 languages (English, Afrikaans and 9 indigenous African languages) were given official status. In the higher education landscape, English remains the dominant language of scholarship. At the University of KwaZulu-Natal, English is the main medium of instruction but the institution's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language of Instruction, Native Language, Second Language Learning
Abongdia, Jane-Francis A.; Willans, Fiona – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2014
This paper investigates language ideologies relevant to medium of instruction policy within two postcolonial countries: Cameroon and Vanuatu. Each country experienced British and French rule, and has retained both English and French as official languages and media of instruction. However, since Independence, there has been a difference in the way…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Attitudes, Second Language Learning, Educational Policy
