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Promoting linguistic diversity Reflections on the language policy of European language policy conferences

Linguistics

To face up to the omnipresence of ?Anglo-American? (as defined in footnote 2), conferences on language policy today address the issue of promoting li...

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The article, "Promoting linguistic diversity: Reflections on the language policy of European language policy conferences," immediately draws attention...

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Dag F. Simonsen

Over the fence ? and into English? Reflections on adolescents, academics, linguistic development and language policy in Norway in the early 2000s

Linguistics

After a discussion of recent language-policy developments in the Scandinavian countries, and of the domain loss theory saying English may displace Sc...

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The paper "Over the fence? and into English? Reflections on adolescents, academics, linguistic development and language policy in Norway in the early...

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Bent Preisler

Deconstructing ?the domain of science? as a sociolinguistic entity in EFL societies: The relationship between English and Danish in higher education and research

Linguistics

Preisler introduces the Danish debate concerning the influence of English on Danish language and language use, and ? drawing on previous research ? d...

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This paper tackles the critical and increasingly relevant sociolinguistic issue of English's influence on national languages within the academic spher...

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Hartmut Haberland

Domains and domain loss

Linguistics

The domain concept, originally suggested by Schmidt-Rohr in the 1930s (as credited in Fishman?s writings in the 1970s), was an attempt to sort out di...

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This paper offers a timely and critical re-examination of the "domain" concept, a foundational construct in sociolinguistics, particularly as it relat...

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Annjo K. Greenall

To translate or not to translate: Attitudes to English loanwords in Norwegian

Linguistics

The ?fast forward? button for the influx of English loanwords1 into the Scandinavian languages has long since been pressed. The views on this phenome...

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This paper, "To translate or not to translate: Attitudes to English loanwords in Norwegian," offers a timely and highly relevant exploration of a pers...

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Miriam Schildkraut

Linguistic socialization and social identity Arab students in a mixed college in Israel

Sociology

The following article brings results from an error analysis of data collected from Arab students whose L1 is Arabic and L2 is Hebrew. The subjects pa...

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This article presents an intriguing study into the linguistic socialization and social identity of Arab students learning Hebrew as an L2 within a uni...

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Karin Risager

Languaculture as a key concept in language and culture teaching

Pedagogy

Are language and culture inseparable, or are they separable? Neither of these positions is tenable, and in order to find a solution to this seeming p...

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This paper addresses a foundational and often debated question in language studies: the intricate relationship between language and culture. By arguin...

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Ulla Lundgren

Intercultural understanding in teaching and learning English An opportunity for Swedish compulsory education

Pedagogy

The aim of this study is to examine the prospects of developing intercultural understanding through English as a foreign language (EFL) in the Swedis...

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This study, "Intercultural understanding in teaching and learning English: An opportunity for Swedish compulsory education," addresses a highly pertin...

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Maud Ciekanski

Towards the development of a plurilingual and pluricultural competence

Andragogy

In 2001, the CRAPEL ran an experimental course in both English and Spanish for French-speaking adult beginners. This course, which was aimed at learn...

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This paper presents an intriguing and highly relevant experimental study conducted by CRAPEL, investigating an integrated approach to teaching two for...

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This article proposes a timely and relevant new model for foreign language didactics, addressing the ongoing re-evaluation of fundamental concepts wit...