Language Policy and Education in the USA

2017 ◽  
pp. 383-400
Author(s):  
Wayne E. Wright ◽  
Thomas Ricento
Keyword(s):  
Language Policy ◽  
The Usa

Language Policy and Education in the USA

2016 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Wayne E. Wright ◽  
Thomas Ricento
Keyword(s):  
Language Policy ◽  
The Usa

4. Language policy in the USA

1997 ◽  
pp. 67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary McGroarty
Keyword(s):  
Language Policy ◽  
The Usa

scholarly journals New Trends in Multilingualism and Minority Languages on a Global Scale

2020 ◽  
pp. 64-75
Author(s):  
Erzhen Khilkhanova
Keyword(s):  
Language Policy ◽  
American Indians ◽  
Minority Groups ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Minority Languages ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
North American Indians ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Framework Conditions

The article examines current trends in language policy and attitudes towards multilingualism and minority languages in the European Union, the USA, and Australia. On the example of some languages (Basque, Breton, Corsican, Sámi etc.) various factors affecting the current situation of minority languages are analyzed with priority to the state language policy. Special attention is concentrated on a new phenomenon in European sociolinguistics – the emergence of "new speakers" from minority groups who have learned these languages not in the family, but due to the educational system. Regarding the US language policy, the situation with the languages of North American Indians is described through some positive changes that have occurred in the economic, legal, cultural and linguistic environment of Indian tribes. The Australian case is analyzed as an equally striking example of progress from banning the use of aboriginal languages to modern programmes of their revitalisation. On the basis of the considered cases the author points to the importance of such factors as language activism and the financial and economic situation of minorities themselves. It is concluded that the change in the value paradigm only sets the framework conditions for the implementation of language rights but does not guarantee their success.

Understanding the Teaching Strategy of Korean Heritage Language Teachers in Community-Based Heritage Language Schools

2020 ◽  
pp. 69-86
Author(s):  
Youngmin Seo
Keyword(s):  
Language Policy ◽  
Heritage Language ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Teacher Interviews ◽  
Literacy Teaching ◽  
Heritage Language Schools ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
Language Schools

The goal in this qualitative study is to contribute to the growing understanding that heritage language (HL) teachers' literacy teaching beliefs and children's home linguistic environment mediate teachers' HL teaching strategies, including the micro-level language policy. Following the brief history of Korean HL schools in the USA, a case study conducted at two community-based Korean HL schools in California is presented. The primary data were collected through multiple teacher interviews and participant-observations in two Korean heritage language schools. The characteristics of two HL teachers' instruction capture their beliefs about literacy teaching and micro-level language policy in the classroom. The challenges of Korean-only instruction and HL education are discussed in relation to students' linguistic home environments and macro-level linguistic policy of the USA. The author concludes with the implications and recommendations for HL teachers, HL schools, and administrators regarding how to support bilingual competences and literacies of young children in minority communities.

scholarly journals Verbalization of the concept language policy

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (S4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alla I. Anisimova ◽  
Nataliia A. Safonova ◽  
Mariia Yu. Dobrushyna ◽  
Nataliia O. Lysenko ◽  
Iryna H. Bezrodnykh
Keyword(s):  
Language Policy ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Semantic Structure ◽  
Native Languages ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Important Means ◽  
Widespread Phenomenon ◽  
Similarities And Differences

The article deals with the issues of revealing the semantic structure of the concept Language Policy based on the online experiment. Most participants of the experiment represent Ukraine and European countries such as France and Germany, Poland and a few respondents from the USA and Turkey. The analysis of the similarities and differences of the concept Language Policy established via an associative experiment done with the help of respondents from different countries helps to outline their national specific features, which contribute to a deeper understanding of both foreign and native languages and cultures through the analyses of the semantic structure of the concept in question. It is emphasized that Language Policy has become a widespread phenomenon in modern Ukrainian and European societies from the social point of view. The study of a linguistic situation in a society can be considered to be an important means of forming the ability to conduct intercultural dialogues. As for the methods and linguistic tools they can vary depending on the applicable target. The article identifies common and different aspects in of the field structures of the concept Language Policy done in multilingual sociolinguistic surroundings.

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