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Direct linkValadez, Concepción; Etxeberria, Feli; Intxausti, Nahia – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2015
In the Basque Country, Northern Spain, Basque (Euskera) and Spanish are official languages. In recent decades, Basque language revitalization and the efforts to make this an unmarked language (normalization) have co-existed with the rapid increase in immigration from outside the Basque region, and most recently from outside Spain. Given the…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Languages, Foreign Countries, Immigrants
Peer reviewedMgqwashu, Emmanuel Mfanafuthi – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2014
This paper reports on a study that examined the extent to which the development of academic literacy in isiZulu, an indigenous language spoken across all the nine provinces in South Africa, enhances opportunities for epistemological access. The focus is in relation to a pilot study of a Bachelor of Education Honours module that uses isiZulu as the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Planning, African Languages, Academic Discourse
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
Nkosi, Zinhle Primrose – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2014
IsiZulu is one of the 11 official languages of South Africa and has the highest number of speakers in the country. While the South African Language Policy for Higher Education (2002) emphasizes the need to use African languages at universities, not many universities' isiZulu-speaking students prefer to be taught in isiZulu. Research has…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Language of Instruction, Student Attitudes, African Languages
Möllering, Martina; Benholz, Claudia; Mavruk, Gülsah – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2014
This contribution traces the development of an educational support program ("Förderunterricht") for immigrant children in the German Ruhr area, a region that has traditionally been strongly impacted by different waves of immigration. The program has grown out of what was originally a small-scale application of research results of a study…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Educational Policy, German, Geographic Regions
