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 …

Educating multilingual students is a great challenge for both teachers and parents in a
society in which English is the medium of schooling and of wider communication. Top‐down …

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 …

As US classrooms approach a decade of response to No Child Left Behind, many questions
and concerns remain around the education of those labeled as 'English language …

A diverse array of language education policies are put into practice in schools around the
world, yet little research exists about the complex process of language policy …

In this article, we establish direct links between language policy on the one hand and
assessment in multilingual contexts on the other hand. We illustrate the bi-directional …

This study explores teachers' beliefs about multilingualism and multilingual students in
Swedish primary schools. The aim is to support a better-informed discussion about teachers' …

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 today's society we increasingly create and consume written content and images. This
includes a range of sources, from social media posts to records held within organisations …

The present study was developed to assess teachers' beliefs on (1) the role of prior
language knowledge in language learning;(2) the perceived usefulness of language …