Regulatory and accreditation organizations have advocated open visitation policies and allowance of support persons of patients’ choosing, but it is unknown if support is allowed equitably. Data from hospitalized patients were analyzed to determine access to support persons, stratified by patient-reported race/ethnicity, language, sex, age, and education. A multivariate regression model was con...

Mark Hugo Lopez is research director at the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (www.civicyouth.org, CIRCLE). He is also a research assistant professor at the University of Maryland’s School of Public Affairs. He received his PhD in economics from Princeton University in 1996. His work concentrates on youth civic engagement, language policy, and bilingual educat...

Using available data from Singapore’s national census and economic reports, national exams, international comparison studies and small-scale studies, this paper examines the sociohistorical circumstances that led to the creation of Singapore’s bilingual education policy, the results of this policy on recent academic achievement and implications for second language acquisition theory. National e...

This paper is concerned with the fundamental and intrinsic links between early receptive and expressive oral language competence on the one hand and the transition to literacy in the early school years and achievement of academic (and life) success on the other. Consequently, it also concerns the professional knowledge base of two key disciplines whose work is central to children's early langua...

INTRODUCTION According to Crystal (2003), English is arguably the world's first ―global language,‖ a language that is used more commonly than any other language and one recognized with a powerful status in every country. English in South Korea of course is no exception. As a country where English is used as a foreign language, South Korea has become one of the largest consumers of English with ...

The extended editorial provides a general introduction to the individual contributions to this Special Issue on ‘Choice in language education’. Together with the concluding piece by Lid King, it frames the various cases presented, and offers a discussion of the broader socio-political, cultural, economic and conceptual context within which they are located and against which they can be read. It...