Language plays a crucial role in education; yet, on daily basis teachers and school leaders must navigate complex web of competing often conflicting priorities relation to various dimensions language education. This includes supporting students’ first literacy development, sustaining the teaching foreign languages curriculum considering other community or home spoken by students. However, while...

Foreign Language Education Policy (FLEP) needs to be understood as part of broader educational policies and as situated within overarching social macro plans. In this paper, based on a conception of policy as distinct from goals and objectives, and with a view of the relevant literature, we will present some theoretical guidelines of setting and/or evaluating foreign language education policies...