Language Planning for Medium of Instruction in Asia

Language Planning for Medium of Instruction in Asia
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 374
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ISBN-10 : 9781317699842
ISBN-13 : 131769984X
Rating : 4/5 (42 Downloads)

Synopsis Language Planning for Medium of Instruction in Asia by : M. Obaidul Hamid

This volume investigates the policy and practice of medium of instruction at different levels of education in Asian polities including Bangladesh, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, the Maldives, Nepal, Timor-Leste and Vietnam. The chapters provide an informed understanding of the context, process, actors, goals and outcomes of medium of instruction policies from a language policy and planning perspective. The volume has an emphasis on the exploration of medium of instruction in action which brings into focus the perspectives of micro policy enactors including teachers, students, and parents in the local context, generating crucial empirical insights. This critical analysis of the goals, outcomes and experiences of this trend in global language-in-education will be of interest to language and education students, researchers, practicing teachers, executives in academia and language studies and to education policymaking authorities in Asia and other parts of the world. The volume updates existing research on medium of instruction and takes the field forward in a fast-changing world as English medium instruction policies are globalised. This book was originally published as a special issue of Current Issues in Language Planning.

Sociopolitical Perspectives on Language Policy and Planning in the USA

Sociopolitical Perspectives on Language Policy and Planning in the USA
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Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages : 390
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ISBN-10 : 9027241236
ISBN-13 : 9789027241238
Rating : 4/5 (36 Downloads)

Synopsis Sociopolitical Perspectives on Language Policy and Planning in the USA by : Thom Huebner

In the third part some practical issues are raised by looking into the role of language and culture in teaching reading, foreign language policy in higher education, Hawaiian language regenesis, and gender neutralization in American English."--BOOK JACKET.

Focus on Language Planning

Focus on Language Planning
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Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages : 372
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ISBN-10 : 9789027284761
ISBN-13 : 9027284768
Rating : 4/5 (61 Downloads)

Synopsis Focus on Language Planning by : David F. Marshall

This volume begins with an overview of Joshua A. Fishman's extensive work and influence in the field of language planning. The other papers link language planning with weighty issues such as politics, ecology, and national development. More specific papers deal with the problems of political and social intricacies of language planning in the European Community, in India, on the African continent, in Israel, Cuba and Quebec. Two papers deal with corpus planning from a lexicological (Yiddish) and terminological point of view.

Planning Language, Planning Inequality

Planning Language, Planning Inequality
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Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Total Pages : 252
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ISBN-10 : UOM:49015001294983
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Rating : 4/5 (83 Downloads)

Synopsis Planning Language, Planning Inequality by : James W. Tollefson

An examination of how an individual's native language can affect their lifestyle. Topics covered range from maintenance of the mother-tongue and second language learning, to the ideology of language planning theory, to education and language rights.

DO NOT Leave Your Language Alone

DO NOT Leave Your Language Alone
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 162
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ISBN-10 : 9781136789601
ISBN-13 : 113678960X
Rating : 4/5 (01 Downloads)

Synopsis DO NOT Leave Your Language Alone by : Joshua A. Fishman

This book, focused on corpus planning in language policy, provides a broad, integrative framework and also discusses multiple languages in detail. It provides readers with great familiarity with a wide range of language cases and at the same time gives them the theoretical tools and analysis to see how they inter-relate.The novelty of this volume i

Language Planning and Student Experiences

Language Planning and Student Experiences
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Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Total Pages : 232
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ISBN-10 : 9781783090068
ISBN-13 : 1783090065
Rating : 4/5 (68 Downloads)

Synopsis Language Planning and Student Experiences by : Joseph LoBianco

This book is a timely comparison of the divergent worlds of policy implementation and policy ambition, the messy, often contradictory here-and-now reality of languages in schools and the sharp-edged, shiny, future-oriented representation of languages in policy. Two deep rooted tendencies in Australian political and social life, multiculturalism and Asian regionalism, are represented as key phases in the country’s experimentation with language education planning. Presenting data from a five year ethnographic study combined with a 40 year span of policy analysis, this volume is a rare book length treatment of the chasm between imagined policy and its experienced delivery, and will provide insights that policymakers around the world can draw on.

The Handbook of Linguistics

The Handbook of Linguistics
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Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages : 727
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ISBN-10 : 9781119302070
ISBN-13 : 1119302072
Rating : 4/5 (70 Downloads)

Synopsis The Handbook of Linguistics by : Mark Aronoff

"The first edition of this Handbook is built on surveys by well-known figures from around the world and around the intellectual world, reflecting several different theoretical predilections, balancing coverage of enduring questions and important recent work. Those strengths are now enhanced by adding new chapters and thoroughly revising almost all other chapters, partly to reflect ways in which the field has changed in the intervening twenty years, in some places radically. The result is a magnificent volume that can be used for many purposes." David W. Lightfoot, Georgetown University "The Handbook of Linguistics, Second Edition is a stupendous achievement. Aronoff and Rees-Miller have provided overviews of 29 subfields of linguistics, each written by one of the leading researchers in that subfield and each impressively crafted in both style and content. I know of no finer resource for anyone who would wish to be better informed on recent developments in linguistics." Frederick J. Newmeyer, University of Washington, University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University "Linguists, their students, colleagues, family, and friends: anyone interested in the latest findings from a wide array of linguistic subfields will welcome this second updated and expanded edition of The Handbook of Linguistics. Leading scholars provide highly accessible yet substantive introductions to their fields: it's an even more valuable resource than its predecessor." Sally McConnell-Ginet, Cornell University "No handbook or text offers a more comprehensive, contemporary overview of the field of linguistics in the twenty-first century. New and thoroughly updated chapters by prominent scholars on each topic and subfield make this a unique, landmark publication."Walt Wolfram, North Carolina State University This second edition of The Handbook of Linguistics provides an updated and timely overview of the field of linguistics. The editor's broad definition of the field ensures that the book may be read by those seeking a comprehensive introduction to the subject, but with little or no prior knowledge of the area. Building on the popular first edition, The Handbook of Linguistics, Second Edition features new and revised content reflecting advances within the discipline. New chapters expand the already broad coverage of the Handbook to address and take account of key changes within the field in the intervening years. It explores: psycholinguistics, linguistic anthropology and ethnolinguistics, sociolinguistic theory, language variation and second language pedagogy. With contributions from a global team of leading linguists, this comprehensive and accessible volume is the ideal resource for those engaged in study and work within the dynamic field of linguistics.

Language Policy and Language Planning

Language Policy and Language Planning
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 388
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ISBN-10 : 9781137576477
ISBN-13 : 1137576472
Rating : 4/5 (77 Downloads)

Synopsis Language Policy and Language Planning by : Sue Wright

This revised second edition is a comprehensive overview of why we speak the languages that we do. It covers language learning imposed by political and economic agendas as well as language choices entered into willingly for reasons of social mobility, economic advantage and group identity.

Language Planning and Education

Language Planning and Education
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Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages : 248
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ISBN-10 : 9780748626588
ISBN-13 : 0748626581
Rating : 4/5 (88 Downloads)

Synopsis Language Planning and Education by : Gibson Ferguson

Language Planning is a resurgent academic discipline, reflecting the importance of language in issues of migration, globalisation, cultural diversity, nation-building, education and ethnic identity. Written as an advanced introduction, this book engages with all these themes but focuses specifically on language planning as it relates to education, addressing such issues as bilingualism and the education of linguistic minority pupils in North America and Europe, the educational and equity implications of the global spread of English, and the choice of media of instruction in post-colonial societies. Contextualising this discussion, the first two chapters describe the emergence and evolution of language planning as an academic discipline, and introduce key concepts in the practice of language planning. The book is wide-ranging in its coverage, with detailed discussion of the context of language policy in a variety of countries and communities across North America, Europe, Africa and Asia.

The Cambridge Handbook of Bilingualism

The Cambridge Handbook of Bilingualism
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 678
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ISBN-10 : 1107179211
ISBN-13 : 9781107179219
Rating : 4/5 (11 Downloads)

Synopsis The Cambridge Handbook of Bilingualism by : Annick De Houwer

The ability to speak two or more languages is a common human experience, whether for children born into bilingual families, young people enrolled in foreign language classes, or mature and older adults learning and using more than one language to meet life's needs and desires. This Handbook offers a developmentally oriented and socially contextualized survey of research into individual bilingualism, comprising the learning, use and, as the case may be, unlearning of two or more spoken and signed languages and language varieties. A wide range of topics is covered, from ideologies, policy, the law, and economics, to exposure and input, language education, measurement of bilingual abilities, attrition and forgetting, and giftedness in bilinguals. Also explored are cross- and intra-disciplinary connections with psychology, clinical linguistics, second language acquisition, education, cognitive science, neurolinguistics, contact linguistics, and sign language research.