Language Planning is a resurgent academic discipline, reflecting the importance of language in issues of migration, globalisation, cultural diversity, nation-building, education and ethnic identity. Written as an advanced introduction, this 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...
Language Planning is a resurgent academic discipline, reflecting the importance of language in issues of migration, globalisation, cultural d...
This book explores key areas of modern society in which language is used to form power and social relations. These are presented in five sections: Language and the Media* Language and Organisations* Language and Gender* Language and Youth* Multilingualism, Identity and EthnicityThis volume examines the overlapping areas of evaluation and assessment, where 'evaluation' is defined as the systematic use of information to make decisions about language teaching programmes and 'assessment' as the systematic use of information to make decisions about individuals and their language ability. A variety...
This book explores key areas of modern society in which language is used to form power and social relations. These are presented in five sections: Lan...
