Multilingual education reforms in Georgia in the post-Soviet period: discourses of ethnic minority integrationSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 17 - Trang 285-306 - 2017
Teresa Wigglesworth-Baker
This research analyses how effective multilingual educational reforms (MLE) have been in post-Soviet Georgia in helping ethnic minorities to learn Georgian as a second language in order to integrate into Georgian society. It also examines the language ideologies at play within the interactive dynamics of top-down and bottom-up discourses. This research used qualitative methods of analysis and the ...... hiện toàn bộ
Demographic and sociopolitical predictors of␣American attitudes towards foreign language policySpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 5 - Trang 421-442 - 2006
John P. Robinson, William P. Rivers, Richard D. Brecht
Despite the controversies over the English-only movement, bilingual education, and language and national security, there have been only sporadic studies of the state of representative public opinion on these issues. The year 2000 General Social Survey (GSS) asked seven new questions on language policy of their national probability sample of 1397 respondents aged 18 and older. A factor analysis sug...... hiện toàn bộ
Language News in Review: UNESCO and the Quest for Cultural DiversitySpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 5 - Trang 209-218 - 2006
Barbara Soukup
This article analyzes recent news-making initiatives by UNESCO and their implications for language policy on the international level. In particular, I focus on two conventions relevant to language policy-making, the ‘Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions’ (approved October 2005), and the ‘Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Heritage’ (which e...... hiện toàn bộ
The Accademia della Crusca in Italy: past and presentSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 10 - Trang 289-303 - 2011
Arturo Tosi
An informal organisation that is becoming quite influential in the spread of Italian in Italy, as well as abroad, is the Accademia della Crusca which began its activities during the Renaissance, under quite different auspices. Founded in Florence in 1582–1583, this Academy was inspired by the theories of Pietro Bembo (1470–1547), a Venetian who felt that the best models for literary works were tho...... hiện toàn bộ