Current Issues in Language Planning最新文献

{"title":"Contrasting a university's language policy with its linguistic landscape: a Norwegian case study","authors":"Heiko Motschenbacher","doi":"10.1080/14664208.2023.2283652","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14664208.2023.2283652","url":null,"abstract":"This study demonstrates that linguistic landscape analysis is a powerful tool for assessing the effectiveness of a university language policy, as it provides in situ evidence for discursive pattern...","PeriodicalId":51704,"journal":{"name":"Current Issues in Language Planning","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138541869","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Bulgarian language policy","authors":"Svetla Koeva","doi":"10.1080/14664208.2023.2268445","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14664208.2023.2268445","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThe paper presents some general facts about Bulgarian, which is spoken by over 8 million people all over the world and is the official language of the Republic of Bulgaria. It is shown that language diversity within the country has been relatively constant and modest over the last 90 years (with a clear dominance of Bulgarian). The focus of the paper is the presentation of the legislation in Bulgaria that regulates language teaching and use in different spheres of life, the main activities of the national institute of language, and the role of language education. The main findings are as follows: There is no dedicated Bulgarian Language Act. Instead, over 100 legislative acts govern issues concerning the usage and study of the Bulgarian language. The Institute for Bulgarian Language at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences supports the Bulgarian state’s language policy through: researching the present state, history, and dialect variety of the Bulgarian language; monitoring changes in written and spoken language; publishing grammars and dictionaries; and developing language resources and technologies. The key factors that influence language education in Bulgaria include early childhood education and care, equity in education and educational outcomes, and the rise of new learning styles.KEYWORDS: Bulgarian languagelanguage policyofficial language protectionnational institute of languagereading literacy Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 https://www.nsi.bg/en/content/19806/прессъобщение/population-september-7-20212 https://population.un.org/unmigration/index_sql.aspx3 The information is from: https://www.ethnologue.com/language/bul/ (16 countries with less than 20,000 Bulgarians are not presented). The information for North Macedonia is taken from the annual reports of Bulgarian citizenship and the Bulgarians abroad committee, which are affiliated with the Bulgarian Presidency: https://m.president.bg/en/cat107/Godishni-dokladi-grajdanstvo.4 In detail in English, the features of the morphological structure of the Bulgarian language are presented by R. Nicolova (Nicolova, Citation2017).5 https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_jp-ii_enc_19850602_slavorum-apostoli.html6 https://censusresults.nsi.bg/Census/Reports/2/2/R9.aspx7 https://www.nsi.bg/sites/default/files/files/pressreleases/Census2021-ethnos_en.pdf8 The number of dialects depends on the accepted classification.9 https://www.parliament.bg/en/const10 https://www.cem.bg/files/1651646128_zrt_eng.pdf11 https://ibl.bas.bg12 https://ibl.bas.bg/rbe/13 https://ibl.bas.bg/en/informatsiya/uslugi/elektronna-biblioteka/14 https://dcl.bas.bg/bulnet/15 https://ibl.bas.bg/dictionary_portal/lang/en/16 https://ibl.bas.bg/ezikovispravki/17 https://www.facebook.com/ezikovi.spravki/18 https://ibl.bas.bg/en/resursi/19 https://ibl.bas.bg/ezikovi_spravki/20 http://lll.mon.bg/uploaded_files/ZAKON_za_preducilisnoto_i_ucilisnot","PeriodicalId":51704,"journal":{"name":"Current Issues in Language Planning","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135888086","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"From policy to practice: how schools implement German language support policy in Austria","authors":"Susanne Schwab, Katharina Resch, Marie Gitschthaler, Sepideh Hassani, Diana Latzko, Antonia Peter, Sarah Walczuch","doi":"10.1080/14664208.2023.2269726","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14664208.2023.2269726","url":null,"abstract":"In 2018/2019, the Government of Austria instituted a new language support model to Austrian schools that included segregated language support measures for non-fluent German-speaking students. The central research aim of the paper is to investigate how the implementation of this new language support model compares to the policy requirement by examining different models of implementation. In the framework of the initial phases of the project ‘A multi-perspective study on German language support’, 12 interviews with German language support teachers and school principals were conducted. Following a prototypical case study analysis, four models of implementation were identified: (1) Segregationmodel, (2) Mixed segregated and integrated model, (3) Individualized language support, and (4) Inclusive support model. Given that thisis the first study in Austria to show the concrete implementation models of German language support in schoolsFindings highlight important implications for school principals and educational policy makers.","PeriodicalId":51704,"journal":{"name":"Current Issues in Language Planning","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135993584","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Individual agency in language-in-education policy: a story of Chinese heritage language schools in multilingual Brussels","authors":"Xiangyun Li, Qi Shen","doi":"10.1080/14664208.2023.2259154","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14664208.2023.2259154","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTIt 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, and practiced language policies, we examine the individual agency of three groups of actors – people with power (principals), people with expertise (teachers), and people with interest (students) – in a variety of policy or planning activities within two Chinese heritage language (CHL) schools in Brussels. On the basis of collected ethnographically informed data in conjunction with the conversation analysis of audio-recorded classroom interactions, our findings illustrate how three types of agentive roles are effective in forming language policies and constructing discursive spaces within the CHL schools, with a clear orientation shift from monolingualism to multilingualism. This study contributes to research on heritage language maintenance in a highly multilingual, diasporic, and educational context by providing a portrait of how educational practitioners and learners assert their agency to explore locally appropriate language policies that maximize actors’ potential to teach and learn heritage languages.KEYWORDS: Individual agencylanguage-in-education policychinese heritage languagemonolingualismmultilingualism AcknowledgmentI am very grateful to Dr Rik Vosters and Dr Jianwei Xu for supervising my doctoral thesis. My sincere thanks also go to all the principals, teachers, and students of the École Sun Yat-Sen de Belgique and the Eurochine Chinese Language School in Brussels, who kindly accepted my invitation to interview and observe them during my Ph.D. study. Needless to say, any errors that remain in this work are our sole responsibility.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationFundingThis work was sponsored by the China Scholarship Council (CSC) under grant number [201607110011], Shanghai Pujiang Program under grant number [22PJC111], and Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [22120230347].Notes on contributorsXiangyun LiXiangyun Li is a post-doc at the School of Foreign Languages, Tongji University. Her main research interests include language planning and policy, multilingualism, language maintenance, and heritage language education in diaspora settings. xiangyun.li@hotmail.comQi ShenQi Shen is a full professor and director of the Center for Language Planning and Global Governance, at Tongji University, Shanghai, China. His research interests include language planning and policy, educational linguistics, and sociolinguistics. qishen@tongji.edu.cn","PeriodicalId":51704,"journal":{"name":"Current Issues in Language Planning","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135579393","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Micro language planning in Mandarin-dominated Chinese language education: voices from dialect-background heritage learners in New Zealand","authors":"Lin Chen, Danping Wang","doi":"10.1080/14664208.2023.2260634","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14664208.2023.2260634","url":null,"abstract":"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 contribute to educational language policymaking. However, little attention has been given to learners – those on the receiving end of educational language policy. Situated in the current discourse concerning Mandarin-dominated Chinese language education, within the context of China’s promotion of Mandarin language learning, this study examines dialect-background heritage learners in a tertiary-level Mandarin Chinese language programme in New Zealand. By adopting the concept of micro language planning, this study explores how dialect-background heritage learners perceive and react in a Mandarin-dominated Chinese programme. The findings show that dialect-background learners exercise agency to interpret, implement, reject, and negotiate language policy according to their self-identified language needs. However, their ability to enact agency is also constrained by a series of social realities including socio-economic discourse, language ideology, language proficiency, and technology development. This study offers implications for language policy makers involved with different levels of Chinese language policy.","PeriodicalId":51704,"journal":{"name":"Current Issues in Language Planning","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136058976","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Everyday multilingualism: linguistic landscapes as practice and pedagogy <b>Everyday multilingualism: linguistic landscapes as practice and pedagogy</b> , by Anikó Hatoss, London, Routledge, 2023, i +185 pp., $252, ISBN 978-1-0322-7702-8 (hbk), 978-1-0322-7703-5 (pbk) and 978-1-0032-9378-1 (ebk)","authors":"Sixuan Wang","doi":"10.1080/14664208.2023.2259197","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14664208.2023.2259197","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51704,"journal":{"name":"Current Issues in Language Planning","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135060304","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Hungarian as a minority and majority language in different language policy contexts","authors":"István Jánk, Szilvia Rási","doi":"10.1080/14664208.2023.2256069","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14664208.2023.2256069","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThis study primarily focuses on the situation of Hungarians in minority situations in relation to language varieties, i.e. it interprets the various language policy issues primarily in the context of the Hungarian-speaking community, rather than in the context of Hungary, where the place, role and relationship between standard and non-standard language dialects play a prominent role. In most cases, the preservation of Hungarian identity is equivalent to the preservation of non-standard language varieties, in relation to which several language policy and language planning issues arise. The aim of the study is twofold. On the one hand, it aims to provide an up-to-date overview of the language policy situation of the Hungarian language and the Hungarian language community, especially with regard to the Hungarian autochthonous minority of about 3 million people who live in the countries neighbouring Hungary. On the other hand, the study describes the language policy role of dialects and the related attitudes from the perspective of the entire Hungarian language community, addressing the macro-, meso- and micro-level language planning possibilities.KEYWORDS: Hungarian dialectsnon-dominant languagesmicro- and macro-level language planningHungarian language minoritydiglossia Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 According to the latest census data, the number of Hungarians living outside the borders is 1.8–1.9 million. However, there are many Hungarians who are afraid of the negative consequences linked to their nationality and therefore decide to identify themselves as members of the majority nationality instead of the Hungarian minority.2 The summary analysis in this unit is based on public reports and recommendations published on the website of the Council of Europe (see https://www.coe.int/en/web/european-charter-regional-or-minority-languages/reports-and-recommendations).3 Although, there are often formal legal mechanisms for the protection of Hungarian, the subordinated position of the minority language, as well as the prestige and instrumentality of the state languages for vertical mobility within nation-states throughout Europe affects the reduction of the number of minority members (Trudgill, Citation2004). The factors contributing to this negative trend are also the increased number of mixed marriages, the immigration of the Hungarian population is high (in this regard, see Hungarian Citizenship Law 2010), at the same time the birth rate is low.Additional informationNotes on contributorsIstván JánkIstván Jánk is a senior lecturer at Eszterházy Károly Catholic University, Eger, Hungary and a Research Fellow at the Research Centre for Language Planning, Institute of Hungarian Research, Budapest, Hungary. His research interests include language policy and sociolinguistics especially linguistic discrimination in the education.Szilvia RásiSzilvia Rási is a doctoral student at Eszterházy K","PeriodicalId":51704,"journal":{"name":"Current Issues in Language Planning","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135148681","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Multilingual learning and language supportive pedagogies in sub-Saharan Africa","authors":"Edwin Dartey","doi":"10.1080/14664208.2023.2257494","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14664208.2023.2257494","url":null,"abstract":"Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).","PeriodicalId":51704,"journal":{"name":"Current Issues in Language Planning","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134910865","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Multilingual Learning and Language Supportive Pedagogies in Sub-Saharan Africa","authors":"Edwin Dartey","doi":"10.4324/9781003028383","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003028383","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51704,"journal":{"name":"Current Issues in Language Planning","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41798667","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Educators’ agency in implementing English-medium-instruction in Chinese higher education: a cultural-historical perspective","authors":"Thi Kim Anh Dang, Gary J. Bonar, Jiazhou Yao","doi":"10.1080/14664208.2023.2255493","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14664208.2023.2255493","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51704,"journal":{"name":"Current Issues in Language Planning","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41592561","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}