language (L2) in primary, secondary and higher education. It is based on questionnaire surveys that were responded to by a … study includes case studies of the institutional and pedagogical relations between translation and the preferred language … relate L2 to L1 even when L1 is not used in class. The predominant ideologies of language learning can create a sense of …

article shows that multilingualism is (and will be for the foreseeable future) by far the most effective language policy for …This article addresses the question of the effectiveness and the fairness of the language policy of the European Union …, by carrying out a comparative analysis of four alternative language regimes. A monolingual language policy based on …

Distributions of language rights in multilingual settings are analyzed from a normative viewpoint in this chapter. If …-benefit calculation has to be augmented in various ways if rights influence the status of a language, which in turn influences the … preferences for language rights. Also the inter-generational transfer of language repertoires to the next generation leads to an …

The essay gives an overview of how language planning and language policy can be motivated and analyzed by economic … methods. It is discussed what type of value language-related goods possess and what type of goods they are. Properties like … degrees of rivalry, exclusion, and shielding and how they can justify language planning are treated. A cost-benefit approach …

We model political contestation over school language policy, within linguistic communities where weak property rights … property rights protection might exacerbate such language conflicts, even as they reduce the chances of persisting with …