People can think of ethnography in two senses: as a process of conducting research framed
within a particular disciplinary tradition, and as a product. As process and product …

Scholars working on multilingualism within the family have often highlighted the dynamic
nature of any single family's language policy, as well as the active role that both parents and …

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 …

How do we research the dynamic aspects of the material language environment of schools?
In this article, I develop further diachronic analysis as a method to advance qualitative …

Many universities around the world are actively engaged in the process of the
internationalization of their higher education systems, trying to become more competitive in …

The central purpose of this chapter is to construct a fresh conceptual framework to
understand the relationship between the processes of globalization and minority-language …

Education and linguistics intersect in many ways. Over the past forty years, the field of
educational linguistics (a term coined by Bernard Spolsky in the 1970s, cf. Spolsky 1974 …

Recent language policy and planning research reveals how policy-makers endorse the
interests of dominant social groups, marginalise minority languages and perpetuate systems …

In the past decade, research on language policy has shifted from a top–down approach
toward the inclusion of micro-political aspects and ethnographic approaches. In studies of …

This paper is aimed at understanding the language policy of Japanese ethnic churches and
the legitimization of church member identities in the midst of dominant languages in …