Language Policy and Planning in Universities: Teaching, Research and Administration

ISBN-13: 9781138301900 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 266 str.

Anthony J. Liddicoat

Opis

With higher education becoming increasingly internationalised, questions of language are central to how universities function. This volume shows that language issues in universities are complex and often contested. It was originally published as a special issue of Current Issues in Language Planning.

Spis treści

Introduction – Language policy and planning in universities: teaching, research and administration  1. Language policy, planning, and enactment: the necessity and empowering potential at the local level  2. English-medium instruction in Japanese universities: policy implementation and constraints  3. Language policies in Puerto Rican higher education: conflicting assumptions of bilingualism  4. Language policy and planning: challenges for Latin American universities  5. Language planning at a cross-border university in Swaziland: the case of teaching and learning, research and institutional administration  6. Examining the English language policy for ethnic minority students in a Chinese university: a language ideology and language regime perspective  7. Towards reconciliation through language planning for Indigenous languages in Canadian universities  8. Carving out institutional space for multilingualism in the world’s most multilingual region: the role of Linguistics at the University of the South Pacific  9. Academic literacy as language policy in community college developmental writing  10. Fractionating English language proficiency: policy and practice in Australian higher education  11. Language, identity, and citizenship in a U.S. University: immigrant English learners’ identity (re) positioning  12. Conflicting views on language policy and planning at a Colombian university  13. Learner autonomy in foreign language policies in Vietnamese universities: an exploration of teacher agency from a sociocultural perspective  14. University administrators as forced language policy agents. An institutional ethnography of parallel language strategy and practices at the University of Copenhagen

O autorze

Anthony J. Liddicoat is Professor in the Centre for Applied Linguistics at the University of Warwick, UK, and Adjunct Professor in the School of Communication, International Studies and Languages at the University of South Australia. His research interests include language and intercultural issues in education, and language policy and planning.