A study of Macao tertiary students’ attitudes to issues in postcolonial Macao’s language policy and
                    planning

Abstract This study focuses on Macao, a former Portuguese colony and a Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China after 1999. A questionnaire survey and semi-structured interviews were conducted in 2012 and 2013 respectively among freshmen of the University of Macau to investigate their attitudes to issues in Macao’s language policy and planning (LPP). Findings of this study reflect their practical attitudes, as reflected in their attitudes towards the choice of English or Portuguese as the first foreign language in Macao public schools. At the same time, their attitudes also reflect their strong local allegiances and resistance to Mainland China’s cultural practices, as reflected in their views on the issue of the official status of Putonghua in the Macao SAR, the choice of Putonghua or Cantonese as the medium of instruction, and the maintenance of traditional Chinese characters, written Cantonese, and Cantonese Romanization System in Macao.

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Language Policy and Planning in Hong Kong

Annual Review of Applied Linguistics ◽

10.1017/s0267190500002889 ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 14 ◽

pp. 177-199 ◽

Cited By ~ 23

Author(s):

Robert Keith Johnson

Keyword(s):

Hong Kong ◽

Language Policy ◽

Full Range ◽

People’S Republic Of China ◽

Language Policy And Planning ◽

People's Republic Of China ◽

Land Area ◽

Republic Of China ◽

Policy And Planning

Hong Kong has a population of 5,902,100 people crowded into its land area of 1076 sq. kms. In broad terms, 98 percent of its population are Chinese.1 They speak Cantonese among themselves and English in dealing with expatriates. The expatriate community, once predominantly British, now reflects the full range of national and multinational commercial and banking interests, including those of the People's Republic of China (PRC) and Taiwan. Luke and Richards (1982) described Hong Kong as having diglossia without bilingualism.

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Exploring family language policy and planning among ethnic minority families in Hong Kong: through a socio-historical and processed lens

Current Issues in Language Planning ◽

10.1080/14664208.2020.1748371 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 1-21 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Mingyue Michelle Gu ◽

Yawen Han

Keyword(s):

Hong Kong ◽

Language Policy ◽

Ethnic Minority ◽

Language Policy And Planning ◽

Family Language Policy ◽

Family Language ◽

Minority Families ◽

Policy And Planning ◽

Ethnic Minority Families

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Language policy and language planning in mainland Southeast Asia: Myanmar and Lisu

Linguistics Vanguard ◽

10.1515/lingvan-2018-0071 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

Author(s):

David Bradley

Keyword(s):

Southeast Asia ◽

Language Policy ◽

Minority Groups ◽

Minority Group ◽

National Language ◽

Minority Languages ◽

Language Policy And Planning ◽

Educational Strategies ◽

Policy And Planning ◽

Mainland Southeast Asia

AbstractMost nations in mainland Southeast Asia and elsewhere have one national language as a focus of national identity and unity, supported by a language policy which promotes and develops this language. Indigenous and immigrant minority groups within each nation may be marginalized; their languages may become endangered. Some of the official national language policies and ethnic policies of mainland Southeast Asian nations aim to support both a national language and indigenous minority languages, but usually the real policy is less positive. It is possible to use sociolinguistic and educational strategies to maintain the linguistic heritage and diversity of a nation, develop bilingual skills among minority groups, and integrate minorities successfully into the nations where they live, but this requires commitment and effort from the minorities themselves and from government and other authorities. The main focus of this paper is two case studies: one of language policy and planning in Myanmar, whose language policy and planning has rarely been discussed before. The other is on the Lisu, a minority group in Myanmar and surrounding countries, who have been relatively successful in maintaining their language.

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Language Policy and Planning in Independent Namibia

Annual Review of Applied Linguistics ◽

10.1017/s0267190500002919 ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 14 ◽

pp. 240-253 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Wilfrid Haacke

Keyword(s):

United Nations ◽

Language Policy ◽

Sub Saharan Africa ◽

Constitutional Rights ◽

Language Policy And Planning ◽

African Countries ◽

Policy Document ◽

Sub Saharan ◽

Policy And Planning ◽

Local Languages

An advantage of Namibia's late attainment of independence is that it can benefit from the experience of other African countries that achieved independence some thirty years earlier. Hence Namibia is unique in that it is the only country in sub-Saharan Africa that at the time of attaining independence already provided for constitutional rights for its local languages. The major policy document of the then liberation movement SWAPO, Toward a language policy for an independent Namibia (United Nations Institute for Namibia 1981), which was published in Lusaka by the institute (UNIN) as proceedings of a seminar held in 1980, essentially set the trend for the policies pursued since independence in 1990.

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