Language Planning in the Asia Pacific

Language Planning in the Asia Pacific PDF Author: Robert B. Kaplan
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317981804
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 259

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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.

Language Planning in the Asia Pacific

Language Planning in the Asia Pacific PDF Author: Robert B. Kaplan
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317981804
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 259

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Book Description
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.

Language Planning for Medium of Instruction in Asia

Language Planning for Medium of Instruction in Asia PDF Author: M. Obaidul Hamid
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317699858
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 219

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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.

Language and Language-in-Education Planning in the Pacific Basin

Language and Language-in-Education Planning in the Pacific Basin PDF Author: R.B. Kaplan
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401701458
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 283

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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.

Language Planning and Language Policy

Language Planning and Language Policy PDF Author: Ping Chen
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136854460
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 236

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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.

Language Planning in Southeast Asia

Language Planning in Southeast Asia PDF Author:
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ISBN:
Category : Language planning
Languages : en
Pages : 422

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English and Language Planning

English and Language Planning PDF Author: Thiru Kandiah
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish Academic
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 330

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Language Planning and Policy in Asia: Japan, Nepal, Taiwan and Chinese characters

Language Planning and Policy in Asia: Japan, Nepal, Taiwan and Chinese characters PDF Author: Robert B. Kaplan
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
ISBN: 1847690955
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 308

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This volume covers the language situation in Japan, Nepal and Taiwan, as well as the modernisation of Chinese Characters in China, 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 and the other two have been participants in the language planning context.

Education in Languages of Lesser Power

Education in Languages of Lesser Power PDF Author: Craig Alan Volker
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN: 9027269580
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 300

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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.

Language Planning and Policy in Asia

Language Planning and Policy in Asia PDF Author: Richard B Baldauf (Jr.)
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781847690951
Category : Language planning
Languages : en
Pages :

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The Politics of English

The Politics of English PDF Author: Lionel Wee
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027272131
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 334

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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.