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Direct linkHamid, M. Obaidul; Nguyen, Hoa Thi Mai; Baldauf, Richard B., Jr. – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2013
One major impact of globalisation on education is denoted by the growing trend to use English, the global language, as a medium of instruction (MOI) in emerging polities that are trying to enhance their English-speaking capacities. This article emphasises developing an understanding of MOI from a language policy and planning as well as an…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Language Planning, Second Language Learning
Kaplan, Robert B.; Baldauf, Richard B., Jr.; Kamwangamalu, Nkonko – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2011
Language-in-education policy (decision taking) and planning (decision implementation) are complex processes requiring a number of decisions to be taken and implemented if they are to be successful. While there is research that suggests the factors that lead to successful outcomes, these are often either ignored or too difficult for polities to…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Economic Opportunities, Language of Instruction, English (Second Language)
Baldauf, Richard B., Jr.; Kaplan, Robert B.; Kamwangamalu, Nkonko; Bryant, Pauline – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2011
Primary school second/foreign language (SL/FL) programmes in Asia, as well as in other parts of the world, are becoming more common, with many targeting English as the SL or FL. The pressures for such English language programmes come from top-down notions that in a globalised world English is required for societies to be competitive, especially…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
Zhao, Shouhui; Baldauf, Richard B., Jr. – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2007
As Chinese characters ("hanzi") have three aspects--as a technical writing system, an aesthetic visual art (Chinese calligraphy), and a highly-charged cultural symbolic system--changing them is a complex process. In the 1950s when language planning campaigns were launched to modernise Chinese through "hanzi" standardisation, names were set aside…
Descriptors: Technical Writing, Language Planning, Handwriting, Written Language
Baldauf, Richard B., Jr. – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2006
Language planning is normally thought of in terms of large-scale, usually national planning, often undertaken by governments and meant to influence, if not change, ways of speaking or literacy practices within a society. It normally encompasses four aspects: status planning (about society), corpus planning (about language), language-in-education…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Power Structure, Public Policy, Guidelines
Baldauf, Richard B., Jr. – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2004
After providing a brief general framework for language policy and planning, this article examines the case of language policy and planning in Australia with a particular focus on how one of the elements in that framework, prestige planning, might contribute to successful planning implementation, thereby adding to our more general understanding of…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Reputation, Foreign Countries, Social Status
