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Direct linkYaqing Chen; Lan Ni – Language Policy, 2024
As the first study addressing family language policy (FLP) in d/Deaf-parented families in China, the current research explores language ideologies, practices and management held by different members within the families. Children of d/Deaf adults (Codas) form an unusual bimodal bilingual group, and the study concerning this group prompts us to…
Descriptors: Deafness, Parents, Chinese, Language Usage
John Bosco Conama – Language Policy, 2025
This article will explore the impact of various language education policies and their measures on Irish Sign Language (ISL) in Irish deaf education. The focus will be on how previous and current policy decisions regarding language education have affected the use and recognition of ISL as a legitimate language in the education system. The article…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sign Language, Deafness, Educational Policy
Abhimanyu Sharma – Language Policy, 2025
The aim of the paper is to investigate India's language policy for its deaf and hard-of-hearing community. Although India's language policy has been examined in great detail in existing research, policies for deaf and hard-of-hearing have received little attention by scholars. In light of the scarcity of debate and research on policies for deaf…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Policy, Deafness, Hard of Hearing
Snoddon, Kristin – Language Policy, 2021
The Deaf Ontario Now movement of 1988 called for more hiring of deaf teachers and the full implementation of American Sign Language (ASL) across the curriculum in schools with deaf students. In 1989, the "Review of Ontario Education Programs for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students" recommended that ASL become a language of instruction at…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Educational Planning, Educational Policy, Foreign Countries
Rose, Heath; Conama, John Bosco – Language Policy, 2018
Linguistic imperialism--a term used to conceptualize the dominance of one language over others--has been debated in language policy for more than two decades. Spolsky (Language policy, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2004), for example, has questioned whether the spread of English was a result of language planning, or was incidental to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sign Language, Language Usage, Public Policy
De Meulder, Maartje – Language Policy, 2017
The development of sign language recognition legislation is a relatively recent phenomenon in the field of language policy. So far only few authors have documented signing communities' aspirations for recognition legislation, how they work with their governments to achieve legislation which most reflects these goals, and whether and why outcomes…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Ethnography, Federal Legislation, Comparative Analysis
