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"Motivations for Service Provision Spectrum": Needs Assessments and Language Policy Approaches
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Easlick, Kathleen – Language Policy, 2023
This paper examines the role of language policy and needs assessments in the provision of public services to regional minority and immigrant language speakers in the UK and Finland. Semi-structured interviews with service providers in Helsinki, Rovaniemi, Manchester, and Cardiff revealed how language policy and language needs are conceptualised…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Public Policy, Foreign Countries, Needs Assessment
Contesting Sub-State Integration Policies: Migrant New Speakers as Stakeholders in Language Regimes
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Augustyniak, Anna; Higham, Gwennan – Language Policy, 2019
This paper aims to illuminate the role of sub-state languages in the integration process of migrants in two sub-state regions: Wales in the UK and the Basque Autonomous Community in Spain. We investigate how language and the idea of 'belongingess' based on language learning and knowledge are constructed in the integration policies in these two…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Ethnography, Language Planning, Second Language Learning
Language Policy and Orthographic Harmonization across Linguistic, Ethnic and National Boundaries in Southern Africa
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Banda, Felix – Language Policy, 2016
Drawing on online and daily newspapers, speakers' language and writing practices, official government documents and prescribed spelling systems in Southern Africa, the paper explores the challenges and possibilities of orthographic reforms allowing for mobility across language clusters, ethnicity, regional and national borders. I argue that this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Usage, Public Policy, Ethnic Groups
New Speakers of New and Old Languages: An Investigation into the Gap between Language Practices and Language Policy
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Spotti, Massimiliano; Kroon, Sjaak; Li, Jinling – Language Policy, 2019
This paper explores the intersection of new speakers in conditions of globalisation led mobility and it investigates the implications the phenomena may have for language policy making. It first describes two historical phases in language policy development that are closely related to a sociolinguistics of stability. In this, it criticises how…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Planning, Mandarin Chinese, Indo European Languages
Legislating Language in Taiwan: From Equality to Development to Status Quo
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Dupré, Jean-François – Language Policy, 2016
This paper looks into failed attempts by the Democratic Progressive Party's (DPP) minority government (2000-2008) to alter Taiwan's Mandarin-dominated language regime by drafting law proposals recognizing the languages of all Taiwanese ethnic groups as equal national languages. This paper argues that the failure to enact language regime change in…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Public Policy, Policy Formation, Foreign Countries
Reflections on a Language Policy for Multilingualism.
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Annamalai, E. – Language Policy, 2003
Suggests that a policy of multilingualism must aim for maintenance of a functional network of languages from which the maintenance of individual languages evolves. It must recognize limitations and special interests orientation of the government as the prime agent of language policy and allow agency to communities and individuals to shape policy…
Descriptors: Government Role, Language Maintenance, Language Planning, Multilingualism