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Nancy H. Hornberger - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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immigration policy as family Language policy mexican immigrant children and families in search of biliteracy
International Journal of Bilingualism, 2019Co-Authors: Sarah Gallo, Nancy H. HornbergerAbstract:Aims and objectives/purpose/research questions:In this article we draw upon the ethnography of Language Planning and policy (LPP) to examine the complexities of how young Latino children with a rec...
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ethnography of Language Planning and policy
Language Teaching, 2018Co-Authors: Nancy H. Hornberger, Aldo Anzures Tapia, David H Hanks, Frances Kvietok Duenas, Siwon LeeAbstract:A decade ago, Hornberger & Johnson proposed that the ethnography of Language Planning and policy (ELPP) offers a useful way to understand how people create, interpret, and at times resist Language policy and Planning (LPP). They envisioned ethnographic investigation of layered LPP ideological and implementational spaces, taking up Hornberger's plea five years earlier for Language users, educators, and researchers to fill up and wedge open ideological and implementational spaces for multiple Languages, literacies, identities, and practices to flourish and grow rather than dwindle and disappear. With roots going back to the 1980s and 1990s, ethnographic research in LPP had been gathering momentum since the turn of the millennium. This review encompasses selected ethnographic LPP research since 2000, exploring affordances and constraints of this research in yielding comparative and cumulative findings on how people interpret and engage with LPP initiatives. We highlight how common-sense wisdom about the perennial gap between policy and practice is given nuance through ethnographic research that identifies and explores intertwining dynamics of top-down and bottom-up LPP activities and processes, monoglossic and heteroglossic Language ideologies and practices, potential equality and actual inequality of Languages, and critical and transformative LPP research paradigms.
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the continua of biliteracy and the bilingual educator educational linguistics in practice
International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2004Co-Authors: Nancy H. HornbergerAbstract:The continua model of biliteracy offers a framework in which to situate research, teaching, and Language Planning in linguistically diverse settings; bilingual teacher education represents a conjunction of all three of these and hence, a good candidate for applying the continua model. This paper uses selected experiences in Language teacher education as practised at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education to illustrate the potential of the continua model as heuristic in continually (re)writing the bilingual or Language educator's knowledge base in response to the demands of educational policy and practice. A series of vignettes serves as a means for exploring dilemmas confronting bilingual (and Language) educators and ways in which the continua model might shape a response: the global/local dilemma – global social, cultural, and political trends as contexts for biliteracy; the standard/nonstandard dilemma – media of biliteracy as reflected in evolving views of Language and literacy in ...
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Quechua Language Shift, Maintenance, and Revitalization in the Andes: The Case for Language Planning
International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 2004Co-Authors: Nancy H. Hornberger, Serafín M. Coronel-molinaAbstract:Although Quechua is spoken by eight to twelve million people across six South American countries, by most measures, Quechua is an endangered Language. This article provides an overview of the current situation of Quechua Language shift, maintenance, and revitalization, and makes a case for the importance of Language Planning for the survival and development of the Language. We use Fishman's notion of physical/demographic, social, and cultural dislocations as an organizing rubric for discussing Quechua's current situation (Fishman 1991: 55-65), and the typology of status, corpus, and acquisition Planning to discuss the role of Language Planning in Quechua's position, both current and future. We take into account the role of linguistic ideologies and Language attitudes in Language shift, maintenance, and revitalization and in the Language-Planning process, working from the assumption that Language is a critical element of ethnic identity for many Quechua speakers in the Andes.
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unpeeling the onion Language Planning and policy and the elt professional
TESOL Quarterly, 1996Co-Authors: Thomas Ricento, Nancy H. HornbergerAbstract:The field of Language Planning and policy (LPP) provides a rich array of research opportunities for applied linguists and social scientists. However, as a multidisciplinary field that seeks to understand, among other things, why some Languages thrive whereas others are marginalized, LPP may appear quite theoretical and far removed from the lives of many English Language teaching (ELT) practitioners. This is unfortunate, because ELT professionals—be they teachers, program developers, materials and textbook writers, administrators, consultants, or academics—are involved in one way or another in the processes of LPP. The purpose of this article is to unravel those processes and the role of ELT professionals in them for both theoretical and practical reasons: theoretical, because we believe there are principled ways to account for why particular events affect the status and vibrancy of Languages and speech communities, and practical, because we believe there are ways to influence the outcome of social processes. In general, we find that the principle of linguistic self-determinism-the right to choose (within limits) what Languages one will use and be educated in—is not only viable but desirable for LPP decision making because it both promotes social equity and fosters diversity. In this article, we examine how ELT professionals are already actively engaged in deciding Language policies, how they promote policies reaffirming or opposing hierarchies of power that reflect entrenched historical and institutional beliefs (see Phillipson & Skutnabb-Kangas, this issue), and how they might affect changes in their local contexts.
Kristin Snoddon - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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equity in education signed Language and the courts
Current Issues in Language Planning, 2009Co-Authors: Kristin SnoddonAbstract:This article examines several legal cases in Canada, the USA, and Australia involving signed Language in education for Deaf students. In all three contexts, signed Language rights for Deaf students have been viewed from within a disability legislation framework that either does not extend to recognizing Language rights in education or that presents obstacles to systemic Language Planning. The limitations of disability rights legislation in each country is outlined, along with alternate legal arguments for signed Language Planning in education.
Aurolyn Luykx - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The future of Quechua and the Quechua of the future: Language ideologies and Language Planning in Bolivia
International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 2004Co-Authors: Aurolyn LuykxAbstract:Current Language policies in Bolivia are based on ideological assumptions that reflect the Language practice of Spanish speakers, rather than sociolinguistic evidence. These assumptions include: that standardization is key to Quechua Language revitalization and political empowerment; that etymological criteria are the best guide for elaborating a standard; and that literacy- and school-based functions are the most crucial to Quechua's future. Inasmuch as these assumptions conflict with the Language ideologies of Quechua communities, policies' chances for success are diminished. Rather than focusing exclusively on domains where Spanish is dominant, Language planners should address Language shift in those domains that constitute Quechua's stronghold: the home and the community.
Kerry Taylorleech - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Language Planning and development aid the in visibility of Language in development aid discourse
Current Issues in Language Planning, 2017Co-Authors: Kerry Taylorleech, Carol BensonAbstract:Despite the essential role of local, regional, national and international Languages in human development, there is little reference to Language Planning in development aid discourse. Beginning with definitions of development aid and Language Planning, the paper examines how the two were linked in pre- and post-colonial times, showing how Language Planning scholarship has responded to the overarching shifts in understandings of development over time. While we find that Language Planning maintains a low profile in human development documents, we note some positive signs in UNESCO’s and UNICEF’s continuing support for Language issues. We contrast this support with the World Bank’s concern with measurable outcomes. We conclude with an analysis of how the contributions to this special issue exemplify some of the tensions inherent in Language Planning for development in a global age.
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finding space for non dominant Languages in education Language policy and medium of instruction in timor leste 2000 2012
Current Issues in Language Planning, 2013Co-Authors: Kerry TaylorleechAbstract:Timor-Leste offers a rich case study of the array of discursive influences on medium-of-instruction (MOI) policy in multilingual, post-colonial developing contexts. MOI policy in this young nation is a site of tension between struggles to define national identity in the shadow of colonial Language ideologies and the globalised discourses of powerful international development aid partners. Guided by the notion of opening up ideological and implementational space for non-dominant Languages in education, this article reviews the evolution of MOI policy in East Timorese primary education over the decade since independence. Paying particular attention to recent proposals for mother tongue-based multilingual education, the review highlights the ideological nature of the relationship between Language Planning and the MOI. The East Timorese case shows how MOI policy emerges from historical and socio-political experiences and is shaped by complex interactions between external and internal forces.
Serafín M. Coronel-molina - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Quechua Language Shift, Maintenance, and Revitalization in the Andes: The Case for Language Planning
International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 2004Co-Authors: Nancy H. Hornberger, Serafín M. Coronel-molinaAbstract:Although Quechua is spoken by eight to twelve million people across six South American countries, by most measures, Quechua is an endangered Language. This article provides an overview of the current situation of Quechua Language shift, maintenance, and revitalization, and makes a case for the importance of Language Planning for the survival and development of the Language. We use Fishman's notion of physical/demographic, social, and cultural dislocations as an organizing rubric for discussing Quechua's current situation (Fishman 1991: 55-65), and the typology of status, corpus, and acquisition Planning to discuss the role of Language Planning in Quechua's position, both current and future. We take into account the role of linguistic ideologies and Language attitudes in Language shift, maintenance, and revitalization and in the Language-Planning process, working from the assumption that Language is a critical element of ethnic identity for many Quechua speakers in the Andes.
