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Direct linkPreisler, Bent; Klitgard, Ida; Fabricius, Anne – Multilingual Matters, 2011
Based on a series of studies from universities around the world, this book suggests that internationalization does not equate with across-the-board use of English, and instead represents a new cultural and linguistic hybridity with the potential to develop new identities unfettered by traditional "us-and-them" binary thinking, and which…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Linguistics, Language of Instruction, Global Approach
Mohan, Bernard, Ed.; Leung, Constant, Ed.; Davison, Chris, Ed. – 2001
This book analyzes the system-wide provision of English-as-a-Second Language (ESL) services in Australia, Canada, and England suggests that a truly responsive educational vision is lacking. They find government policies to be inadequate; educational practices for ESL students to be either underdeveloped or poorly coordinated with practices for…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Language Attitudes, Language Planning
Ager, Dennis – 2001
The aim of this book is to investigate the motives for action on language behavior, whether this means corpus, status, or acquisition planning. It examines such questions as why individuals, groups, and governments try to influence their own or others' language behavior or language attitudes, and what drives authorities to try to control, favor,…
Descriptors: Cultural Maintenance, Educational Policy, Ethnic Groups, Foreign Countries
Extra, Guus, Ed.; Gorter, Durk, Ed. – 2001
This book focuses on the minority languages of Europe, those other than the national languages of European Union member states, by looking at the demographic, sociolinguistic, and educational aspects of both regional and immigrant languages. Empirical evidence for the status of these other languages of multicultural Europe is brought together in a…
Descriptors: Arabic, Basque, Cultural Maintenance, Educational Policy
Heller, Monica, Ed.; Martin-Jones, Marilyn, Ed. – 2001
Chapters in this volume include the following: "Co-Constructing School Safetime: Safetalk Practices in Peruvian and South African Classrooms" (Nancy H. Hornberger, J. Keith Chick); "Codeswitching and Collusion: Classroom Interaction in Botswana Primary Schools" (Jo Arthur); "Language and Educational Inequality in Primary…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language), Cultural Maintenance, Educational Policy
Eggington, William, Ed.; Wren, Helen, Ed. – 1997
This book examines the impact of English in countries in which it is taken for granted--Australia, Britain, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States. It explores how the impact of English affects the development of national language policies, the maintenance of minority languages, the ability to provide services in other languages, the efforts…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Bilingual Education Programs, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language)
