Summary Details
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summary: update on Official English
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| Author: | Christopher Mierzejewski | |
| Submitter Email: | click here to access email | |
| Linguistic LingField(s): |
Sociolinguistics
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| Summary: |
Last week I asked for an update on Official English laws in the U.S. Many thanks to those who responded: Jim Walker, Curt Rice, James W. Crawford, Donna Christian, Chad D. Nilep, Sharon Vaipae, Anne Moreau Several people directed me to James W. Crawford's (author of Language Loyalties: A Sourcebook of the Official English Controversy) language policy web site, which has practically all of the information I was looking for: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/JWCRAWFORD Chad D. Nilsep (chad.nilep@asu.edu) also gave me an update on a recent state law in Arizona requiring that all state business be conducted in English: the law was contested but dismissed by the Supreme Court (for technical reasons and not on the merits of the case), and so the law stands (for the time being). A few people gave me information on language policy in countries other than the U.S. or France: Sharon Vaipae (ohtani@gol.com) informed me that in Japan (a country without an official language policy) language policy regarding education requires foreigners to follow the same curriculum as the Japanese students, i.e. in Japanese, although a desire is expressed for the teacher to understand the foreign student's language for educational purposes. Anne Moreau (amoreau@courrier.usherb.ca) sent me the address of a web site in Quebec where information is available on language laws in Quebec: http://www.OLF.gouv.qc.ca |
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| LL Issue: | 8.466 | |
| Date Posted: | 05-Apr-1997 | |
| Original Query: | Read original query | |
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