Intersections in Language Planning and Policy

Intersections in Language Planning and Policy
Author: Jean Fornasiero
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 539
Release: 2020-09-28
Genre: Education
ISBN: 3030509257

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This volume encompasses the range of issues encountered by language scholars who teach and research in departments of languages and cultures within the higher education system, predominantly in Australia, but touching other universities worldwide. Related studies on language planning, methodology or pedagogy have focused on one or more of these same issues, but rarely on their totality. Intersections as a metaphor running discreetly through the essays in this volume, connects them all to a lived reality. The field of languages and cultures, as it is practised and reflected upon in Australian universities, is essentially an interdisciplinary and interconnecting space - one in which linguistic and disciplinary diversities meet and join forces, rather than collide or disperse along different pathways. The international and local studies featured here focus on language planning, new pedagogies and language reclamation and link to meeting points and commonalities. They show that language scholars are increasingly finding themselves on common ground as they tackle issues of policy and practice affecting their field, whether within their institutions, within the tertiary system, or within the framework of government policy.

Language Ideology, Policy and Planning in Peru

Language Ideology, Policy and Planning in Peru
Author: Serafín M. Coronel-Molina
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2015
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1783094249

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This book explores the role of language academies in preserving and revitalizing minority or endangered languages. This book would appeal to anyone studying the history of the Quechua language, as well as to those studying broader issues of indigenous language planning and policy, maintenance and revitalization.

Engaged Language Policy and Practices

Engaged Language Policy and Practices
Author: Kathryn A. Davis
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2016-12-08
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1317442482

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Engaged Language Policy and Practices re-envisions language policy and planning as an engaged approach, drawing on and portraying theoretical and educational equity perspectives. It calls for the right to language policy-making in which all concerned—communities, parents, students, educators, and advocates—collectively imagine new strategies for resisting global neoliberal marginalization of home languages and cultural identities. This book subsequently emphasizes the means by which engaged dialectic processes can inform and clarify language policy-making decisions that promote equity. In other words, rather than descriptions of outcomes, the authors emphasize the need to detail the means by which local/regional actors resist and transform inequitable policies. These descriptions of processes thereby provide all actors with ideological, pedagogical, and equity policy tools that can inform situated school and community policy-making. This book depicts ways in which engaged language policy embodies the intersection of critical inquiry, participant involvement, and ongoing engaged language planning processes. It further offers an alternative to the traditional top-down approach to language education policy-making. Engaged Language Policy and Practices is essential reading for scholars, teachers, students, communities, and others concerned with worldwide language and identity equity.

Language Planning and Policy

Language Planning and Policy
Author: Anthony Liddicoat
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2008
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1847690637

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Language problems potentially exist at all levels of human activity, including he local contaxts of communities & institutions. This volume explores the ways in which language planning works as a local activity in a wide variety of contexts around the world & deals with a wide range of language planning issues.

Translation and Public Policy

Translation and Public Policy
Author: Gabriel González Núñez
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 186
Release: 2017-04-21
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1315521768

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This book brings together an ensemble of leading voices from the fields of economics, language policy, law, political philosophy, and translation studies. They come together to provide theoretical perspectives and practical case studies regarding a shared concern: translation policy. Their timely perspectives and case studies allow for the problematizing and exploration of translation policy, an area that is beginning to come to the attention of scholars. This book offers the first truly interdisciplinary approach to an area of study that is still in its infancy. It thus makes a timely and necessary contribution. As the 21st century marches on, authorities are more and more confronted with the reality of multilingual societies, and the monolingual state polices of yesteryear seem unable to satisfy increasing demands for more just societies. Precisely because of that, language policies of necessity must include choices about the use or non-use of translation at different levels. Thus, translation policy plays a prominent yet often unseen role in multilingual societies. This role is shaped by tensions and compromises that bear on the distribution of resources, choices about language, legal imperatives, and notions of justice. This book aims to inform scholars and policy makers alike regarding these issues.

Diversifying Family Language Policy

Diversifying Family Language Policy
Author: Lyn Wright
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 339
Release: 2021-12-16
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1350189901

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An increasingly important field of research within multilingualism and sociolinguistics, Family Language Policy (FLP) investigates the explicit and overt planning of language use within the home and among family members. However the diverse range of different family units and contexts around the globe necessitates a similarly diverse range of research perspectives which are not yet represented within the field. Tackling this problem head on, this volume expands the scope of families in FLP research. Bringing together contributors and case studies from every continent, this essential reference broadens lines of inquiry by investigating language practices and ideologies in previously under-researched families. Seeking to better reflect contemporary influences on FLP processes, chapters use innovative methodologies, including digital ethnographies and autoethnography, to explore diverse family configurations (adoptive, LGBTQ+, and single parent), modalities (digital communication and signed languages), and speakers and contexts (adult learners, Indigenous contexts, and new speakers). Bringing to light the dynamic, fluid nature of family and kinship as well as the important role that multilingualism plays in family members' negotiation of power, agency, and identity construction, Diversifying Family Language Policy is a state-of-the-art reference to contemporary theoretical, methodological and ethical advances in the field of family language policy.

Language Planning in the Asia Pacific

Language Planning in the Asia Pacific
Author: Robert Kaplan
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2013-12-16
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1317981804

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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.

Where Language is Made: Language Planning at the Intersections of National and International Literacy and Language Work

Where Language is Made: Language Planning at the Intersections of National and International Literacy and Language Work
Author: Nicole M. Walls
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2010
Genre:
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This dissertation examines how in the U.S. domestic context, attacks against multilingualism are often framed as practical arguments for those literacy skills needed to participate fully in U.S. culture and economy. Accordingly, language planning projects (e.g. anti-bilingual education legislation and the English-Only Movement) aim to eradicate language differences and, with them, the need to develop resources and nurture attitudes that support linguistic plurality. The 0́−practical framing0́+ of these projects has kept hostility toward multilingualism somewhat implicit, fostering instead an ambivalence that contrasts with the work of the United States in the international context to privilege literacy development over language rights. This work, I argue, has contributed to the futility of language rights in the U.S. domestic context, and has impeded the abilities of language scholars to intervene in monolingual projects. Language scholars in Rhetoric and Composition have faced resistance from within the field despite a vocal rhetorical commitment to other categories of diversity, including race, class, and gender. Revising the current notion that domestic language issues alone dictate the terms of language planning in local contexts, 0́−Where Language is Made0́+ shows that hostility toward multilingualism is a global problem, shaped and reshaped at the intersections of local, domestic, and international language projects.

Language Planning in Primary Schools in Asia

Language Planning in Primary Schools in Asia
Author: Richard B. Baldauf
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2013-09-13
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1135708878

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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.

Engaged Language Policy and Practices

Engaged Language Policy and Practices
Author: Kathryn Anne Davis
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016-12-08
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9781315695280

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Engaged Language Policy and Practices re-envisions language policy and planning as an engaged approach, drawing on and portraying theoretical and educational equity perspectives. It calls for the right to language policy-making in which all concerned--communities, parents, students, educators, and advocates--collectively imagine new strategies for resisting global neoliberal marginalization of home languages and cultural identities. This book subsequently emphasizes the means by which engaged dialectic processes can inform and clarify language policy-making decisions that promote equity. In other words, rather than descriptions of outcomes, the authors emphasize the need to detail the means by which local/regional actors resist and transform inequitable policies. These descriptions of processes thereby provide all actors with ideological, pedagogical, and equity policy tools that can inform situated school and community policy-making. This book depicts ways in which engaged language policy embodies the intersection of critical inquiry, participant involvement, and ongoing engaged language planning processes. It further offers an alternative to the traditional top-down approach to language education policy-making. Engaged Language Policy and Practices is essential reading for scholars, teachers, students, communities, and others concerned with worldwide language and identity equity.