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Liddicoat, Anthony J.; Curnow, Timothy Jowan; Scarino, Angela – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2016
This paper examines the development of the First Language Maintenance and Development (FLMD) program in South Australia. This program is the main language policy activity that specifically focuses on language maintenance in government primary schools and has existed since 1986. During this time, the program has evolved largely as the result of ad…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Planning, Language Maintenance, Native Language
Liddicoat, Anthony J. – Multilingual Matters, 2013
This book examines the ideological underpinnings of language-in-education policies that explicitly focus on adding a new language to the learners' existing repertoire. It examines policies for foreign languages, immigrant languages, indigenous languages and external language spread. Each of these contexts provides for different possible…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Educational Policy, Ideology, Second Language Learning
Taylor-Leech, Kerry; Liddicoat, Anthony J. – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2014
This overview identifies some common features of macro-level language planning and briefly summarises the changing approaches to the analysis of macro-planning in the field. It previews six cases of language-in-education planning in response to linguistic diversity presented by the contributors to this issue. The cases show how macro-planning can…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Multilingualism, Cultural Pluralism, Definitions
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Liddicoat, Anthony J. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2009
Australia's language and multicultural policies have constructed the intercultural dimension of Australian identity and practice in a number of different ways relating to different community groups. This paper traces the evolution of multicultural policy from the 1970s until the present through the main national policy documents in order to…
Descriptors: Public Policy, Ideology, Cultural Pluralism, Foreign Countries
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Liddicoat, Anthony J. – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2005
Australia's language-in-education policy documents have consistently included references to the place of "culture" in language teaching. This paper seeks to examine how the major national policies conceptualise culture and interculturality in relationship to languages education. For each policy, this study will analyse the language…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Language Planning, Second Language Learning
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Liddicoat, Anthony J. – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2004
Language planning for literacy has typically focused on models of provision of print-based literacy programmes in order to develop widespread literate capabilities in reading and writing. This paper argues that contemporary literacy planning needs to consider more than models of delivery and engage with issues related to defining the nature of…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Literacy, Functional Literacy, Foreign Countries