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 …

The natural first question is: What is language policy? The question is commonly asked in
books on the topic but concrete definitions are less common than discussions of language …

In this article we proffer a theoretical model for analyzing power in language policy
processes and incorporate ethnographic data to illustrate the usefulness of the model …

In this article we examine the theoretical and conceptual history of Language Planning and
Policy (LPP) and situate the ethnography of language policy within the historical trajectory of …

This article reports findings from qualitative research conducted in 17 New York City schools
to better understand why many school leaders–particularly principals–have recently …

This study examines teachers' language appropriation strategies in the multilingual setting
of Pakistani universities to show how they negotiate the official/institutional constraints …

There is a growing trend around the world to support mother tongue instruction in the early
years of a child's education. In Southeast Asia, this is apparent in a rising number of …

Language policy is generally seen as a national-level decision regarding which languages
the state will support, and in which public domains. However, the reality is that language …

This article reports data from a qualitative study conducted within the elitist English-medium
schools in three cities of Pakistan to claim that theory building, and English teaching …

The undeniable shortcomings of EAP education in Iran, from unformed policies to
uninformed choices of materials based on unverified assumptions to flawed methodologies …