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Hywel Coleman; Nur Fauzan Ahmad; Nilawati Hadisantosa; Kuchah Kuchah; Martin Lamb; Dana Waskita – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2024
Research on English Medium Instruction (EMI) in Higher Education (HE) has tended to have a technicist orientation, examining for example how it is implemented and the challenges it has encountered. Much less critical attention has been given to the rationales that language policy makers and other stakeholders offer for introducing EMI - the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Deans, Higher Education, College Students
Yawen Han; Juan Dong – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2024
The adoption of English medium instruction (EMI) in higher education has gained popularity in China's tertiary education as a result of globalization. International students in Chinese universities are celebrated as part of soft power projection to extend China's global impact. Informed by Piller and Cho's concept of "Neoliberalism as…
Descriptors: Language of Instruction, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries
Christopher Samuell – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2024
Private educational activities designed to enhance student outcomes outside the formal schooling system are increasingly referred to as shadow education. In Japan, shadow education traditionally consists of for-profit cram schools or "juku." "Juku" take many forms in Japan, yet their primary function is to offer students extra…
Descriptors: Tutoring, Socioeconomic Status, Decision Making, English (Second Language)
Rachel McKee; Mireille Vale – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2024
This paper examines recent lexical expansion in New Zealand Sign Language (NZSL) in the context of change in the status of the language and ongoing contact with other (spoken and signed) languages. We categorised 917 new signs documented in the past five years according to their source, semantic field, and sign formation mechanism(s), both…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Semiotics, Linguistic Borrowing, Phrase Structure
Xiangyun Li; Qi Shen – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2024
It is increasingly recognized that agency plays an essential role in shaping language-in-education policy (LEP) and influencing the learning process. Research on agency has not yet adequately engaged with the field of heritage education and maintenance in diasporas. Drawing on Shohamy's and Bonacina-Pugh's conceptualization of declared, perceived,…
Descriptors: Personal Autonomy, Heritage Education, Multilingualism, Foreign Countries
Lin Chen; Danping Wang – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2024
The field of language policy and planning has seen increasing scholarly attention that explores social actors' micro language planning towards a given language policy situation at the grassroots level. In educational contexts, teachers and educators are often considered pivotal locals whose agency, when enacted in micro language planning, can…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Heritage Education, Mandarin Chinese, Native Language
Yu, Hua; Johnson, David Cassels – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2023
This paper investigates the strategies of governance in the language policy "Chanting the Chinese Classics" (CCC) as deployed by State authorities, schools, and local communities. It highlights the strategy of 'viewing' as a nexus between language policy processes and traditional Chinese governing philosophy. To examine the connections…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Governance, Chinese, Foreign Countries
Yessenbekova, Kymbat – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2023
In the era of the globalization of the English language, Kazakhstan has strategically implemented English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI) in higher education. Accordingly, the aim of this study was to explore teachers' and students' perceptions of their EMI experiences, focusing on the interplay between language management (LM), language…
Descriptors: Language of Instruction, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, College Faculty
Wang, Sixuan; Hatoss, Anikó – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2023
This paper examines the impact of the local tea industry on the language ecology of the geographically remote Blang community in China. The paper takes an ecology perspective in language planning where all languages in the locality are given equal attention. These languages in the context of this paper include Blang, Putonghua, and English as the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Attitudes, Ideology, Entrepreneurship
Maraf, Baya; Vanci Osam, Ulker – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2023
The present study provides an insight into foreign language policy endeavour in Algeria. It responds to the concept of an English 'tidal wave' (Spolsky [2004]. "Language policy." Cambridge University Press), and uses Spolsky's ([2009]. "Language management." Cambridge University Press) social approach and Djité's ([1994].…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Language Planning
Selleck, Charlotte – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2023
This article adopts a gendered take on Family Language Policy (FLP) by questioning the way that gender impacts on the issues faced by refugee woman during and after flight. For this reason, the ethnographically informed research addresses the concerns and experiences of mothers and daughters in the Somali community in Bristol, one of the fastest…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immigrants, Refugees, Females
Lee, Cher Leng; Phua, Chiew Pheng – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2023
Singapore is a multiracial nation with a majority ethnic Chinese population. Since its independence in 1965, it has adopted an 'English-knowing' bilingual policy to achieve economic, social, and political objectives. For the past two decades, there has been a rapid increase in the percentage of ethnic Chinese Primary One students coming from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction, Mandarin Chinese, Uncommonly Taught Languages
Shirahata, Mai; Lahti, Malgorzata – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2023
Many universities in non-English speaking countries have been adopting English as a medium of instruction to internationalize their education. We set out to compare the language policies of a Finnish and a Japanese university using the lens of language ideology -- a set of normative beliefs about the social dimension of language. Data were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Language Planning, Educational Policy
Garrett Delavan, M.; Freire, Juan A.; Morita-Mullaney, Trish – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2023
This multimodal critical discourse analysis is part of a larger equity audit of how the websites of 11 of the largest U.S. school districts discussed access to dual language bilingual education (DLBE). Prior research has frequently documented how administrators utilize DLBE programs to compete with one another for the supposedly necessary resource…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Bilingual Education, Discourse Analysis, School Choice
Bazai, Zia ur Rehman; Manan, Syed Abdul; Pillai, Stefanie – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2023
The teaching of native languages is seen as being key to the development of cognitive skills, better academic performance in early grades and a resource for linguistic (re)vitalization and cultural revival. This study examines the institutional challenges in teaching and learning native languages in Pakistan. The study uses teachers' agency…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Planning, Native Language Instruction, Language Teachers