The fastest guide to Klang Valley. A guide to the essentials of Klang Valley that helps you hit the ground running on your trip. A practical e-book of things to do and see in Klang Valley.

The fastest guide to Klang Valley. A guide to the essentials of Klang Valley that helps you hit the ground running on your trip. A practical e-book of things to do and see in Klang Valley.

The fastest guide to Klang Valley. A guide to the essentials of Klang Valley that helps you hit the ground running on your trip. A practical e-book of things to do and see in Klang Valley.

The fastest guide to Klang Valley. A guide to the essentials of Klang Valley that helps you hit the ground running on your trip. A practical e-book of things to do and see in Klang Valley.

The fastest guide to Kuala Lumpur. A guide to the essentials of Kuala Lumpur that helps you hit the ground running on your trip. A practical e-book of things to do and see in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

The fastest guide to Kuala Lumpur. A guide to the essentials of Kuala Lumpur that helps you hit the ground running on your trip. A practical e-book of things to do and see in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Conference Proceedings of 4th International Conference on Tourism Research

This volume inserts the place of the local in theorizing about language policies and practices in applied linguistics. While the effects of globalization around the world are being discussed in such diverse circles as corporations, law firms, and education, and while the spread of English has come to largely benefit those in positions of power, relatively little has been said about the impact of globalization at the local level, directly or indirectly. Reclaiming the Local in Language Policy and Practice is unique in focusing specifically on the outcomes of globalization in and among the communities affected by these changes. The authors make a case for why it is important for local social practices, communicative conventions, linguistic realities, and knowledge paradigms to actively inform language policies and practices for classrooms and communities in specific contexts, and to critically inform those pertaining to other communities. Engaging with the dominant paradigms in the discipline of applied linguistics, the chapters include research relating to second language acquisition, sociolinguistics, literacy, and language planning. The majority of chapters are case studies of specific contexts and communities, focused on situations of language teaching. Beyond their local contexts these studies are important for initiating discussion of their relevance for other, different communities and contexts. Taken together, the chapters in this book approach the task of reclaiming and making space for the local by means of negotiating with the present and the global. They illuminate the paradox that the local contains complex values of diversity, multilingualism, and plurality that can help to reconceive the multilingual society and education for postmodern times.

Stephen Hamnett and Dean Forbes have brought together some of the region’s most distinguished urbanists to explore the planning history and recent development of Pacific Asia’s major cities. They show how globalization, and the competition to achieve global city status, has had a profound effect on all these cities. But how resilient are these cities to the risks that they face? How can they manage continuing pressures for development and growth while reducing their vulnerability to a range of potential crises? And, given the tradition of top-down, centralized, state-directed planning which drove the economic growth of many of these cities in the last century, what prospects are there of them becoming more inclusive and sensitive to the diverse needs of their populations and to the importance of culture, heritage and local places in creating liveable cities?