Despite the increasing number of the North Korean refugees in South Korea every year, there have been few studies of the language-support programs for their resettlement. This study uses a micro-language planning perspective to examine how the resettled North Korean refugee students respond to the government-level language-support programs by…

The purpose of this study was to determine if the frequent use of LanguageLinks: Syntax Assessment and Intervention (LL), produced by Laureate Learning Systems, Inc., as a supplemental classroom activity, affected morphosyntax structures (determiners, tense, and complementizers) in participants who are Deaf/Hard of Hearing (DHH) and use American…

Teachers must learn to accept the fact that variation in language is part of the communicative competence of a linguistically mature individual. (RC)

Three teachers debate the value of a statement on student language usage that was adopted by the Conference on College Composition and Communication and the National Council of Teachers of English. (RL)