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David Lasagabaster – Language Policy, 2025
South Africa immediately springs to mind as the epitome of multilingual language policies. In fact, its Constitution granted official status to 11 languages in 1996, and the Language Policy in Higher Education passed by the Ministry of Education in 2002 required universities to develop and use the indigenous official languages as academic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multilingualism, Language Planning, Student Attitudes
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Higgins, Christina; Nettell, Richard; Furukawa, Gavin; Sakoda, Kent – Linguistics and Education: An International Research Journal, 2012
This article discusses a documentary film project produced by high school students in Hawai'i that investigated the value of Pidgin (Hawai'i Creole) in schools and society, and which ultimately aimed to address the problem of "linguicism" (Skutnabb-Kangas, 1990). The project was carried out within a critical language awareness framework…
Descriptors: Language Dominance, Pidgins, Metalinguistics, Contrastive Linguistics