Language planning and education / Gibson Ferguson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ferguson, Gibson.

Series:

Edinburgh textbooks in applied linguistics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language planning.

Communication in education.

Multicultural education.

Minorities--Education.

Minorities.

Physical Description:

xi, 243 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2006.

Summary:

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 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: a historical overview 1

1.1 The early years of the discipline of language planning 1

1.2 Criticisms of language planning 3

1.3 The resurgence of language planning and language policy 4

1.4 Changes in the discipline of language planning 9

2 The practice of language planning: an overview of key concepts 16

2.1 Language, nations and nationalism 17

2.2 The role of language planning in the construction of national languages and nations 20

2.3 Language planning in education 33

3 Educational and political dimensions of bilingual education: the case of the United States 37

3.1 The context of bilingual education in the United States 37

3.2 Bilingual education in the United States: educational research and pedagogy 49

3.3 The politics of bilingual education in the United States 62

4 Minority languages and language revitalisation 71

4.1 Language endangerment: a brief overview 71

4.2 The theory and practice of language revitalisation 77

4.3 Language planning and language revitalisation: a case study of Welsh and Breton 87

4.4 Conclusion: implications of the Welsh/Breton case study 107

5 The global spread of English: cause, agency, effects and policy responses 110

5.1 Cause and agency in the global spread of English 110

5.2 Effects of the global spread of English 125

5.3 Conclusion: implications of the global spread of English for English language teaching 143

6 New Englishes and teaching models: the continuing debate 149

6.1 Sociolinguistic contexts of the global use of English 150

6.2 Defining the New Englishes 152

6.3 The genesis of New Englishes 157

6.4 New Englishes and models for teaching 161

6.5 A lingua franca coda 175

7 Language education policy and the medium of instruction issue in post-colonial Africa 179

7.1 Current policies on media of instruction: articulating the problem 180

7.2 Changing the media of instruction: constraints on policy 183

7.3 The medium of instruction issue and the role of the applied linguist 192.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0748612629

0748612610

OCLC:

66263470

Publisher Number:

9780748612611

9780748612628