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The Impact of Language Policy on Endangered Languages

, 2017
Evaluation of the potential and actual impact of language policy on endangered languages is complicated by lack of straightforward causal connections between types of policy and language maintenance and shift, as well as by confusion of policy and ...
S. Romaine
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Language Policy and Language Rights

2007
Abstract In most countries along the Pacific Rim, there is an increasing mismatch between official policy, which has become progressively more liberal and supportive of minority linguistic and other rights, and the reality of continuing loss of indigenous minority languages.
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Language Tests, Language Policy, and Citizenship

2018
The role of language tests in immigration policy has attracted significant attention in recent years as the disruptive effects of globalisation are felt. Much of the research has focused on the situation in Europe, where societies that were traditionally not countries of immigration now have significant and increasing immigrant communities.
Tim McNamara, Kellie Frost
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National Sign Languages and Language Policies

1997
The development of national sign languages and of language policies associated with national sign languages are both relatively recent, and are products of the spread of nationalism, spurred on by national and international movements in the fields of human rights and education.
Don Miller, Jan Branson
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Security and Language Policy

2018
This chapter draws critical security studies into the investigation of language policy for two reasons. First, it provides informative commentary on how the concept of security is being reconfigured, with developments in digital technology, large-scale population movements, and the privatisation of public services.
Ben Rampton   +3 more
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Language Teaching and Language Policy in Nigeria

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2011
In recent years there has been renewed interest in the study of languages in Nigeria. There is no doubt that we have multiplicity of languages among different ethnic groups in Nigeria with each group guarding its language jealously, yet there has not been a separate language policy, other than the bits and fragments in the National Policy on Education (
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Family Language Policy

2018
The family is a social unit which has its norms for speaking, viewing, acting, and believing, thus providing a cornerstone for language socialisation and language development. This chapter begins with a brief introduction to the theoretical conceptualisation of family language policy (FLP) currently used by most researchers.
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Foreign Language Policy

2014
In the course of development, most countries have explicitly or implicitly acknowledged the importance of national language as well as foreign language(s). Language is considered as one of the most important of the three connected phenomena: language, nation and development (Lee and Suryadinata, 2007).
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