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The Expansive Language Access Framework: An Integrated Approach to Addressing Oppression in Language Education
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María Cioè-Peña; Rebecca E. Linares; Sara E. N. Kangas – Language Policy, 2025
While language education programs were created with an equity stance in mind--with the goals of increasing access and facilitating academic success for ethnically and linguistically marginalized students--the larger educational context has compromised access for multiply marginalized students. Recognizing a need for more complex understandings of…
Descriptors: Power Structure, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Multilingualism
Alternative Sources of Data for Alternative Histories of Standardisation
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Elspaß, Stephan – Language Policy, 2020
What almost all accounts of standardisation histories have in common is a focus on printed, formal or literary texts from writing elites. While Haugen identified the written form of a language as "a significant and probably crucial requirement for a standard language" (Haugen in Am Anthropol 68:922-935, 1966a; Haugen, in: Bright (ed)…
Descriptors: Standard Spoken Usage, Standards, Language Planning, Linguistic Theory
A Language Academy by Any Other Name(s): The Case of Croatia
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Langston, Keith; Peti-Stantic, Anita – Language Policy, 2011
There are three main institutions in Croatia today that are actively engaged in language management activities on the national level: The Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, The Council for the Norms of the Croatian Standard Language, and the Institute for the Croatian Language and Linguistics. Their efforts are focused on establishing the…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Language Variation, Foreign Countries, Organizations (Groups)