Language Planning In The Asia Pacific

Author : Robert B. Kaplan,Richard B. Baldauf
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317981800

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Language Planning in the Asia Pacific by Robert B. Kaplan,Richard B. Baldauf Pdf

This volume covers the language situation in Hong Kong, Timor-Leste and Sri Lanka explaining the linguistic diversity, the historical and political contexts and the current language situation, including language-in-education planning, the role of the media, the role of religion and the roles of non-indigenous languages. Two of the authors are indigenous to the situations described while the other has undertaken extensive field work and consulting there. The three monographs contained in this volume draw together the literature on each of the polities to present an overview of the research available about each of them, while providing new research-based information. The purpose of the volume is to provide an up-to-date overview of the language situation in each polity based on a series of key questions in the hope that this might facilitate the development of a richer theory to guide language policy and planning in other polities where similar issues may arise. This book was published as special issues of Current Issues in Language Planning.

Author : M. Obaidul Hamid,Hoa T.M. Nguyen,Richard B. Baldauf
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317699859

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Language Planning for Medium of Instruction in Asia by M. Obaidul Hamid,Hoa T.M. Nguyen,Richard B. Baldauf Pdf

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.

Author : R.B. Kaplan,Richard B. Baldauf Jr.
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789401701457

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Language and Language-in-Education Planning in the Pacific Basin by R.B. Kaplan,Richard B. Baldauf Jr. Pdf

This work examines and reviews the ecological context of language planning in 14 countries in the Pacific basin: Japan, the two Koreas, Taiwan, the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei Darussalam, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu. It provides the only up-to-date overview and review of language policy in the region and challenges those interested in language policy and planning to think about how such goals might be achieved in the context of language ecology.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Language planning
ISBN : UOM:39015034235724

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Language Planning in Southeast Asia by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ping Chen,Nanette Gottlieb
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136854460

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Language Planning and Language Policy by Ping Chen,Nanette Gottlieb Pdf

Examines the major issues of language planning and policy in Japan, Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea and Vietnam, particularly those relating to the selection of official language, script, and written language.

Author : Thiru Kandiah,John Kwan-Terry
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish Academic
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015032257266

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English and Language Planning by Thiru Kandiah,John Kwan-Terry Pdf

Author : Richard B Baldauf (Jr.),Robert B. Kaplan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Language planning
ISBN : 1847690955

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Language Planning and Policy in Asia by Richard B Baldauf (Jr.),Robert B. Kaplan Pdf

Author : Lionel Wee,Robbie B.H. Goh,Lisa Lim
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027272133

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The Politics of English by Lionel Wee,Robbie B.H. Goh,Lisa Lim Pdf

This volume brings together contributions that explore the increasingly important roles that English plays in Asia, including its contribution to economic growth, national imaginaries and creative writing. These are issues that are political in a broad sense, but the diversity of Asian contexts also means that the social, political and cultural ramifications of the spread of English into Asia will have to be understood in relation to the challenges facing specific societies. The chapters in the book collectively illustrate this diversity by focusing on countries from South Asia, Southeast Asia and the Asia Pacific. Each country has two contributions devoted to it: one paper provides an overview of the country’s language policy and its positioning of English, and another provides a critical discussion of creative expressions involving the use of English. Taken together, the papers in the volume detail the most recent developments concerning the politics of English in Asia.

Author : Craig Alan Volker,Fred E. Anderson
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027269584

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Education in Languages of Lesser Power by Craig Alan Volker,Fred E. Anderson Pdf

The cultural diversity of the Asia-Pacific region is reflected in a multitude of linguistic ecologies of languages of lesser power, i.e., of indigenous and immigrant languages whose speakers lack collective linguistic power, especially in education. This volume looks at a representative sampling of such communities. Some receive strong government support, while others receive none. For some indigenous languages, the same government schools that once tried to stamp out indigenous languages are now the vehicles of language revival. As the various chapters in this book show, some parents strongly support the use of languages other than the national language in education, while others are actively against it, and perhaps a majority have ambivalent feelings. The overall meta-theme that emerges from the collection is the need to view the teaching and learning of these languages in relation to the different needs of the speakers within a sociolinguistics of mobility.

Author : Jiří Nekvapil,Tamah Sherman
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Intercultural communication
ISBN : 3631582633

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Language Management in Contact Situations by Jiří Nekvapil,Tamah Sherman Pdf

The authors of this volume analyze language contact situations emerging in East and Central Europe, Australia, and Japan. The individual chapters focus on language problems which appear in concrete interactions between speakers of various languages. The objective of the book is to demonstrate the capacity of the language management framework on the basis of highly diversified empirical material and thus aid in the solving of similar language problems which arise in different types of intercultural contact. The chapters contribute to the forming of a new approach to the processes underlying linguistic diversity, covering both its micro and macro aspects.

Author : Robert B. Kaplan,Richard B. Baldauf Jr.,Nkonko Kamwangamalu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134916740

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Language Planning in Europe by Robert B. Kaplan,Richard B. Baldauf Jr.,Nkonko Kamwangamalu Pdf

This volume focuses on language planning in Cyprus, Iceland and Luxembourg, explaining the linguistic diversity, historical and political contexts and current language situation (including language-in-education planning), the role of the media, the role of religion and the roles of non-indigenous languages. The authors are indigenous to the situations described, and draw on their experience and extensive fieldwork there. The three extended case studies contained in this volume draw together the literature on each of the polities to present an overview of the existing research available, while also providing new research-based information. The purpose of this volume is to provide an up-to-date overview of the language situation in each polity based on a series of key questions, in the hope that this might facilitate the development of a richer theory to guide language policy and planning in other polities where similar issues may arise. This book comprises case studies originally published in the journal Current Issues in Language Planning.

Author : Ben Fenton-Smith,Pamela Humphreys,Ian Walkinshaw
Publisher : Springer
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783319519760

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English Medium Instruction in Higher Education in Asia-Pacific by Ben Fenton-Smith,Pamela Humphreys,Ian Walkinshaw Pdf

This volume draws together the viewpoints and research findings of leading scholars and informed local practitioner-researchers throughout Asia-Pacific about the issues and challenges of English as a medium of instruction (EMI) at higher education institutions in that region. Specifically, it addresses four key themes: Macro-level EMI policy and practice; institutional implications for pedagogy; stakeholder perceptions of EMI; and challenges of interpersonal interaction in EMI contexts. The book is among the first to critically examine the emerging global phenomenon of English as a medium of instruction, and the first title to exclusively explore Asia-Pacific tertiary contexts. It will be of particular interest to policy-makers in international education and tertiary educators seeking blueprints for practice, as well as scholars and postgraduate students of English as a lingua franca, English for academic purposes, academic language and learning, and language education in Asia-Pacific.

Author : Richard B. Baldauf,Robert B. Kaplan,Knonko Kamwangamalu,Pauline Bryant
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135708870

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Language Planning in Primary Schools in Asia by Richard B. Baldauf,Robert B. Kaplan,Knonko Kamwangamalu,Pauline Bryant Pdf

In foreign language education, decisions must be taken on what languages to teach, who will teach them, in which schools (i.e. all, only urban, only rural), in which grades, the number of hours a week, and the cost involved. This book explores the answers to these questions across a number of Asian polities. It illustrates why some of the efforts undertaken are successful and why some are not, why – despite significant investments of time and resources – some students do not seem to acquire the languages being taught, and why some teachers responsible for instruction in the designated foreign languages have problems achieving fluency in the designated language or have other language teaching difficulties. It suggests some strategies various polities might attempt to achieve their stated language learning objectives. This book was originally published as a special issue of Current Issues in Language Planning.

Author : Nkonko Kamwangamalu,Richard B. Baldauf Jr.,Robert B. Kaplan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134916955

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Language Planning in Africa by Nkonko Kamwangamalu,Richard B. Baldauf Jr.,Robert B. Kaplan Pdf

This volume focuses on language planning in the Cameroon, Sudan and Zimbabwe, explaining the linguistic diversity, historical and political contexts, current language situation (including language-in-education planning), the role of the media, the role of religion and the roles of non-indigenous languages. The authors are indigenous to the situations described, and draw on their experience and extensive fieldwork there. The extended case studies contained in this volume draw together the literature on each of the polities to present an overview of the existing research available, while also providing new research-based information. The purpose of this volume is to provide an up-to-date overview of the language situation in each polity based on a series of key questions, in the hope that this might facilitate the development of a richer theory to guide language policy and planning in other polities where similar issues may arise. This book comprises case studies originally published in the journal Current Issues in Language Planning.

Author : Richard B. Baldauf,Robert B. Kaplan,Knonko Kamwangamalu,Pauline Bryant
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Asien
ISBN : 0415520843

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Language Planning in Primary Schools in Asia by Richard B. Baldauf,Robert B. Kaplan,Knonko Kamwangamalu,Pauline Bryant Pdf

People in many polities gradually have come to believe that their children could be guaranteed better economic opportunities if they had English as part of their linguistic repertoire spurring the addition of English to the school curriculum at an earlier and earlier age. However, early instruction is often implemented without regard to the availability of adequate support structures (e.g. teachers, facilities, funding) and in an environment where English has little real function outside the classroom. This volume presents nine case studies in Asia where these issues are examined. This book was originally published as a special issue of Current Issues in Language Planning.