基本説明
The book includes discussion and examples from countries world-wide, as well as exercises and suggested reading in each chapter and an extensive bibliography.
Full Description
This book offers a topical new introduction to a resurgent academic discipline. This book explores the importance of language in issues of migration, globalisation, cultural diversity, nation-building, education and ethnic identity. Written as an advanced introduction, the 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.
Contents
1. The Discipline of Language Planning; 2. The Practice of Language Planning; 3. Educational and Political Dimensions of Bilingual Education; 4. Minority Languages and Language Revitalisation; 5. The Global Spread of English; 6. New Englishes and Teaching Models; 7. Language Education Policy and the Medium Of Instruction.
