Full Description
The papers in this volume examine selected language problems and educational issues in the region. Following a critical introduction to language planning, a range of problems facing governments, language planners and consultants, and educators are discussed: What language(s) should be taught and used? Who should be involved in making educational and language policy? What agendas are at work in existing policies? This book will be of value to all those interested in the politics, language and culture of Australia, the South Pacific and South-east Asia.
Contents
Part 1 An overview on language planning issues and changeplanning and education, Richard B.Baldauf; on the limits of language planning - class, state and power, Allan Luke et al. Part 2 Language planning and use in Australia: making language policy - Australia's experience, Joseph Lo Bianco; some competing goals in aboriginal language planning, Paul Black; towards evaluating the aboriginal bilingual education program in the Northern Territory, Bill Eggington and Richard B. Baldauf; controllers or victims - language and education in the Torres Strait, Joan Kale; an annotated bibliography on Australian languages, Joan Kale and Allan Luke. Part 3 Language planning and use in Melanesia and Polynesia: Solomons pijin - colonial ideologies, Roger M. Keesing; Solomons pijin - an unrecognized national language, Christine Jourdan; language planning in Papua New Guinea, Joan Kale; Creolized Tok Pisin - uniformity and variation, Geoff P. Smith; Tok Pisin at university - an educational and language planning dilemma in Papua New Guinea?, John Swan and Don Lewis; language planning in Vanuata, Andrew Thomas; education and language planning in the Samoas, Richard B.Baldauf; language planning in Melanesia and Polynesia, Vicki Teleni. Part 4 Language planning and use in South East Asia: how bilingualism is being integrated in Negara Brunei Darussalam, Gary Jones; the English language in Malaysia and its relationship with the national language, A.Conrad and K.Ozog; evaluating bilingual education in the Philippines - towards a multidimensional model of evaluation in language planning, Andrew Gonzalez; an annotated bibliography on language planning and education in South East Asia, Bo Yin; language planning and education - a critical rereading, Allan Luke and Richard B. Baldauf.
