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Language Problems and Language Planning - Volume 45, Issue 3, 2021
Volume 45, Issue 3, 2021
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Translation as inclusion?
Author(s): Wine Tesseurpp.: 261–283 (23)More LessAbstractInternational NGOs (INGOs) are important agents in delivering the UN’s sustainable development agenda, but their linguistic practices have received little attention in the field of language policy and planning. This article aims to add new insights to the field by exploring the link between INGOs’ organisational value of inclusiveness and their institutional approaches to translation. It does so through a case study of Oxfam GB’s and Tearfund’s translation policy documents. The analysis reveals that the policy documents focus on written translation into a handful of lingua francas. In other words, they largely overlook the need for interpreting and translation from and into local languages. In addition, the policy documents do not make any overt links between principles of (linguistic) inclusiveness and the need for translation. The article summarises the advantages and drawbacks of creating a translation policy, and provides guidance on linking translation policy more overtly to values of inclusiveness.
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Language gender gap at work across OECD countries
Author(s): Teresa Corbella, Amado Alarcón and Joanna Andraszakpp.: 284–308 (25)More LessAbstractLanguage gender differences at work have been widely described though hardly measured. The object of this study is whether there are gender differences in the use of language skills at work and what those differences are. A gender gap measure of linguistic skills used at work is presented and computed for 21 countries using data from the first round of the Survey of Adult Skills (n = 109 695). On the basis of the 21st-century literacy needs at work approach, we compound five one-skill indicators: use of oral skills, use of reading skills, use of writing skills, use of numeracy skills, and use of ICT skills. Gender differences are quantified in relative terms controlling for occupations’ gross categories. We provide a piece of evidence for a language gender gap at work in favor of men for all language skills analyzed; there are, however, differences by country and occupational categories.
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Languages for learning
Author(s): Silvia Minardipp.: 309–330 (22)More LessAbstractMore than 25 years have passed since CLIL was first introduced in schools all over Europe with objectives, methods and organizational structures that often also vary from one country to another. Time has passed, and still without a precise framework of reference, CLIL shows its great potential as well as its drawbacks. Using data from research conducted in Italy with four CLIL teachers who teach physics through a foreign language, this article aims to highlight the possibility that CLIL can serve to make every teacher, regardless of the subject, aware of the role that language can play in learning. The data collected, which refer to the Italian education system, emphasize the central role of the subject teacher in CLIL implementation. They also draw attention to the need for important changes in the CLIL agenda for the coming years.
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Pluricentric linguistic justice in Quebec
Author(s): Leigh Oakes and Yael Peledpp.: 331–356 (26)More LessAbstractWith the emergence of the notion of Standard Quebec French, debates about linguistic usage in Quebec are today largely shaped by two competing normative models: an exonorm defined for all intents and purposes in France and an endonorm reflecting socially acceptable usage as determined by Quebecers themselves. While language attitude research has provided some indication of the normative preferences of ordinary Quebecers, the picture remains largely ambiguous. This article seeks to provide some clarity through a reconceptualisation of language attitudes intended to specifically elicit value judgments on norm setting and enforcement. Building on research in political philosophy and theory, it further develops the notion of ‘pluricentric linguistic justice’, proposed as a tool for assessing questions of authority and legitimacy concerning French in Quebec. It then presents the results of an empirical exploration of this notion focused on the attitudes of a sample of francophone Quebecers towards endonormativity, including as a function of key social variables. The study represents an innovative attempt to develop and test a methodological instrument for interrogating questions of linguistic justice in pluricentric settings more broadly.
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Review of Horn, Lecomte & Tietze (2020): Managing Multilingual Workplaces: Methodological, Empirical and Pedagogic Perspectives
Author(s): Tobias Schroedlerpp.: 357–363 (7)More LessThis article reviews Managing Multilingual Workplaces: Methodological, Empirical and Pedagogic Perspectives
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Review of Peled & Weinstock (2020): Language Ethics
Author(s): Elvira Riera-Gilpp.: 364–369 (6)More LessThis article reviews Language Ethics
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Review of Yohannes (2021): Language Policy in Ethiopia: The Interplay Between Policy and Practice in Tigray Regional State. Contributions by Joseph Lo Bianco and Joy Kreeft Peyton
Author(s): Alessandro Bausipp.: 370–374 (5)More LessThis article reviews Language Policy in Ethiopia: The Interplay Between Policy and Practice in Tigray Regional State. Contributions by Joseph Lo Bianco and Joy Kreeft Peyton
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