Terminology planning and standardization of basic Croatian musical terminology by Sanja Kiš Žuvela, Ana Ostroški Anić

“…As two integral components of communication and language planning within a language standardization process, terminology planning and terminology standardization are the activities applied to consciously and systematically develop a particular language for special purposes in accordance with the communicational needs of the subject field. …”
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Preface to Per Linguam 27(1) by Christa van der Walt

“…<p>This first number of Per Linguam in 2011 sees an extended Editorial Board and we would like to welcome the following esteemed scholars:</p> <ul><li>Prof Colin Baker from the University of Wales (Bangor), a specialist in bilingual education;</li><li>Prof Herman Batibo from the University of Botswana, a specialist on African languages, language planning and policy issues in Africa; and </li><li>Prof Petra Engelbrecht from the University of Canterbury, an educational psychologist.…”
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The Role of English in Shaping the Linguistic Landscape in Slovenia by Nada Šabec

“…It is suggested that Slovenia should invest more effort both in the actual implementation of its language policy and language planning so as to guarantee that Slovene retains its status as official and state language not only de jure but also de facto. …”
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Challenges of Hungarian high education in Ukraine by Victoria Ferenc

“…On the other hand, while education is one of the effective and powerful means of achieving social goals of the minority and choosing the language of instruction is a crucial part of language education policy, minority universities neglect serious language planning activity. It is high time forevery institute to work out an individual university language policytaking into account their own aims and personal conditions.…”
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The Theory of Neural Cognition Applied to Robotics by Claude F. Touzet

“…The TnC explains how a memory can become an actor pursuing various goals, and proposes explanations concerning the implementation of a large variety of cognitive abilities, such as attention, memory, language, planning, intelligence, emotions, motivation, pleasure, consciousness and personality. …”
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Migration and language education : towards a typology of complementary schools by Jain, Ritu

“…Singapore‟s educational policy constitutes an example of affirmative language planning as it offers semi-official support to non-mainstream languages (Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu). …”
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Is Mandarin essential to the construction of Chinese-ness in Singapore? by Wong, Kevin Zi Hao

“…The findings reveal a mismatch between official and unofficial constructions of Mandarin in Singapore, and point towards limitations in language planning in Singapore.…”
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The role of language in the construction of Chinese ethnicity in Malaysia, Singapore, and China by Wong, Kevin Zi Hao

“…Chinese Malaysians and Chinese Singaporeans are found to differ in ways that suggest the susceptibility of Chinese ethnicity to ideological construction by the state through language planning and policy. Meanwhile, Chinese Malaysians and Chinese Singapore differ from Mainland Chinese in a way that underscores the heterogeneity of Chinese ethnicity globally.…”
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The implications of neurological models of memory for learning and teaching by Scott-Taylor, Timothy H.

“…The ability to hold and collate information is critical to fundamental brain activities such as abstract thought, language, planning and, above all, to learning. The slow process of unraveling neurological links between brain areas involved in cognition has delayed an understanding of how learning actually takes place which goes beyond the working models of memory we use to optimize teaching. …”
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Education, language policy and language use in the Philippines by Symaco, L.P.

The Handbook of Hispanic Sociolinguistics / by Da̕z-Campos, Manuel, editor 634259

“…. -- Offers the first authoritative collection exploring research strands in the emerging and fast-moving field of Spanish sociolinguistics -- Highlights the contributions that Spanish Sociolinguistics has offered to general linguistic theory -- Brings together a team of the top researchers in the field to present the very latest perspectives and discussions of key issues -- Covers a wealth of topics including: variationist approaches, Spanish and its importance in the U.S., language planning, and other topics focused on the social aspects of Spanish -- Includes several varieties of Spanish, reflecting the rich diversity of dialects spoken in the Americas and Spain.…”

Language policy in the Kingdom of Prussia at the junction of the 18th-19th centuries by Ona Aleknavičienė

“…With regards to Mielcke’s observation about civil servants who need to learn Lithuanian and the Lithuanian approach to language, Heilsberg took a practical position on language planning. He suggested expanding the Lithuanian language use in the public sphere rather than considering the idea of German as a common state language. …”
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Sprechgeschwindigkeit als Indikator der perzipierten Sprechflüssigkeit in Deutsch als Fremdsprache by Mirjana M. Kovač

“…The aim of this article is to evaluate perceived fluency, which according to research results refers to the impression of the listener that the psycholinguistic processes of language planning and language production work smoothly and efficiently, i.e. that these two processes can be performed by speakers almost simultaneously. …”
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Notas para uma política de ensino de línguas by José Carlos Paes de Almeida Filho

“…The range of supporting factors in the education of agents for a professional and developed teaching of languages includes language planning whose scope is wider and shelters important second and foreign language policies. …”
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Reawakening the Irish language through the ırish education system: Challenges and priorities by T.J. Ó Ceallaigh, Áine Ní Dhonnabhain

“…Since the foundation of the Irish Free State, the education system has been targeted as an agency and model for Irish language planning, education and language revitalisation and has had a critical role in generating linguistic ability in the Irish language. …”
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Micro-corpus codification in the Hebrew Revival by Moshe Nahir

“…The development of Modern Hebrew may be viewed as consisting of three periods, in each of which at least one language planning "goal" has been sought. The first of these periods is that of "Language Revival" (1890-1914) in which the revival of that language in Palestine took place. …”
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Interfacing Language Research with Policy by Gregory H. Kamwendo

“…It is widely agreed in the literature of language planning that research (i.e. fact finding) is one of the most important inputs to a language policy formulation process (e.g. …”
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Language Policy and Planning: An Analysis of the Themes Present in Research in Brazil by Socorro Cláudia Tavares de Sousa, Cynthia Israelly Barbalho Dionísio

“…The main themes identified in this study were: educational language policies, language planning, languages in contact, diffusion of the Portuguese language, and (meta)linguistic knowledge and language policies. …”
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A few things about normativisation of the Aragonese by Marco Antonio Joven Romero

“…</p> <p>This article summarizes the central issues of the debate from the viewpoint of a supporter of standardization and normalization focused on a common model, using the latest interactive public discussion held with one of the defenders of language planning around diatopic varieties, Professor José Luis Mendivil.…”
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Intercultural Language Competence and Business Communication by Valentina Golysheva

“…Students studying business language should be recommended to do the research in the theory of language planning namely Political Correctness (PC). Observing politeness strategy, i.e. avoiding direct imposition either in conditional requests or imperatives might be useful for students studying English to be learned as value one. …”
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