Abstracts Archive

In multilingual contexts such as Nepal, language policy planning has been contested due to the co-existence of multiple contradictory discourses concerning teaching and learning of local, national, foreign, and international languages. Due to this, attempts, both in policy and practice, in creating ...

This paper presents text corpora analyses of political and public discourses on foreign language (FL) education alongside statistical data on actual uptake. It does so by comparing both declared (official) FL policy, debated policies and actual uptake of FL learning in a number of different European...

France's colonial linguistic assimilation policy which imposed a French-only medium of instruction has been cited as a barrier to optimal education in French and in other subjects. Consequently, linguists and educators have advocated for education policy that place African languages, and French at...

In primary and secondary education in the United States, where multilingual policies have recently expanded, tension has emerged between discourses of plurality aiming to center linguistically, culturally, and racially minoritized communities on one hand and hegemonic privileging of white, English-d...

This paper is about building solidarity in language-policy activism. If racialized hierarchies of languages-and of the people who speak them-are so stable, then under what conditions is it possible to unite across difference and combat racial and linguistic stratification?The project behind the pape...

The field of language policy and planning (LPP) has traditionally been focused on policy documents and other written texts as foundational data sources. In recent years, however, empirical investigations of language practices, ideologies, and sociolinguistic norms in a wide variety of contexts have ...

Remediation reform is a neoliberal-oriented policy movement in U.S. higher education that aims to increase college completion rates. While a major focus of the movement has been on changing language education requirements for entering students, implications for multilingual and English learner stude...