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Direct linkGruffydd, Ifor; Hodges, Rhian; Prys, Cynog – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2023
This paper presents a detailed analysis of how Welsh language training in the public sector workplace in north Wales is planned and delivered. Specific attention is given to the effectiveness of strategic management on both the macro level (Welsh Government, Welsh Language Board/Welsh Language Commissioner) and the micro level (individual public…
Descriptors: Welsh, Language Planning, Workplace Learning, Strategic Planning
Takunori Terasawa; So Sudo; Takeshi Kajigaya; Ryosuke Aoyama; Ryuko Kubota – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2025
This paper examines recent reforms in English-language testing in Japan using a policy distraction framework. We identify the term 'washback (effect)' and other related discourses as major distractors and investigate how 'washback' discourses have functioned as political slogans or catchphrases in policy deliberation processes and how they have…
Descriptors: Testing Problems, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Amuzu, Evershed Kwasi; Nutakor, Yvonne Eyram; Amfo, Nana Aba Appiah – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2019
This paper aims at examining language socialisation practices of members of two groups of migrants of Nigerien origin living in Ghana, i.e. Tamasheque-speaking beggars in Accra and Hausa/Zambarima/Buzu-speaking hawkers at the Akuapem Ridge. We examine the migrants' language practices in various domains, such as work and home, interrogate whether…
Descriptors: Socialization, African Languages, Poverty, Language Usage
Berezkina, Maimu – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2018
The purpose of this study is to understand how institutional language managers make and legitimize decisions about language choice on state websites. The focus lies on state institutions in two technologically advanced European nation-states: Estonia and Norway. The analysis is empirically based on interviews with employees at the institutions who…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Language Usage, Web Sites, Decision Making
Siiner, Maarja – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2016
Nation states increasingly assign the responsibility for meeting the global competitiveness agenda to the universities themselves [Cirius, 2009, "Mobilitetsstatistik for de videregaaende uddannelser 2007/08" [Mobility statistics for higher education 2007/08]]. In Denmark, universities that have introduced English as an instrument to…
Descriptors: Language Planning, International Education, Work Environment, Immigration
Peer reviewedSaulière, Jérôme – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2014
This article looks at France's Loi Toubon, which mandates the use of French in private companies, to illustrate how macro-level language planning reaches a dead end if it fails to consider local contexts and involve micro-level agents. The motivations, limitations and contradictions of France's language policy in relation to companies are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Corporations, Sociolinguistics, Language Usage
