From Language Revival to Language Removal? The Teaching of Titular Languages in the National Republics of Post-Soviet Russia
Publisher: ECMI Volume: 28 pages, pdf Description: Since the early 1990s, “language revival” has been at the core of language policy in education in Russia’s national republics. Have the policies actually “revived” the languages? The problem of evaluating the policy impact on the teaching of the republics’ titular languages in post-Soviet Russia has been a subject of scholarly interest. Some research has been conducted on language revival in education in the republics titled after peoples speaking Turkic languages, starting in Tatarstan and Bashkortostan (e.g. Boiko et al., 2002; Garipov et al., 2006; Gataullina, 2001; Safin, 1997; Graney, 1999; Gorenburg, 2005 and others).