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Language Policy Hidden Agendas and New Approaches
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In this paper, Elana Shohamy considers the effects that these policies have on the real people involved and argues for a more democratic and open approach to language policy and planning, suggesting strategies for resistance to language attrition and ways to protect the linguistic rights of groups and individuals.Citations
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Content-and-Language Integrated Learning: From Practice to Principles?
TL;DR: The authors surveys recent work on content-and-language integrated learning (CLIL) for contexts where the classroom provides the only site for learners' interaction in the target language, and synthesizes research on learning outcomes in CLIL.
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Pedagogies and Practices in Multilingual Classrooms: Singularities in Pluralities
Ofelia García,Claire E. Sylvan +1 more
TL;DR: This article examined the case of a network of U.S. secondary schools for newcomer immigrants, the International High Schools, and looked at how students' plurilingual abilities are built through seven principles that support dynamic plurilingual practices in instruction-heterogeneity, collaboration, learner-centeredness, language and content integration, language use from students up, experiential learning, and local autonomy and responsibility.
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Family Language Policy
TL;DR: It is argued that family language policies are important as they shape children's developmental trajectories, connect in significant ways with children's formal school success, and collectively determine the maintenance and future status of minority languages.
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Changing Communicative Needs, Revised Assessment Objectives: Testing English as an International Language
TL;DR: The authors argued that it is unwise to define proficiency based on a single variety and because it is impossible to teach or measure proficiency in many varieties simultaneously, we have to consider revising the dominant paradigms of assessment.
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Invisible and visible language planning: ideological factors in the family language policy of Chinese immigrant families in Quebec
TL;DR: This paper examined how family languages policies are planned and developed in ten Chinese immigrant families in Quebec, Canada, with regard to their children's language and literacy education in three languages, Chinese, English, and French.