ISBN:
1853599786
,
1853599778
,
9781853599781
,
9781853599774
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (ix, 271 p)
,
ill
,
26 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Language planning and policy
Parallel Title:
Print version Language Planning and Policy : Issues in Language Planning and Literacy
DDC:
306.4/49
Keywords:
Literacy
;
Language policy
;
Language planning
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
While literacy has always been central to language planning work, there are fewer studies which focus primarily on literacy as a language planning activity. This volume investigates the complex issues and social and political pressures relating to literacy in a variety of language planning contexts around the world
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; The Contributors; Introduction: Literacy and Language Planning; Language Planning for Literacy: Issues and Implications; Early Literacy Policy: National and Local Instantiations; Language Planning and Literacy in Kenya: Living with Unresolved Paradoxes; Conceptions of Literacy in Canadian Immigrant Language Training; Singapore's Literacy Policy and its Conflicting Ideologies; Rethinking Language Planning and Policy from the Ground Up: Refashioning Institutional Realities and Human Lives; Legislating Literacy for Linguistic and Ethnic Minorities in Contemporary China
Description / Table of Contents:
Vernaculars in Literacy and Basic Education in Cambodia, Laos and ThailandLiteracy in Pidgin and Creole Languages; The Consequences of Vernacular (Il)literacy in the Pacific; Literacy in a Dying Language: The Case of Kuot, New Ireland, Papua New Guinea; Vernacular Literacy in the Touo Language of the Solomon Islands; Is it Aulua or Education Dressed up in Kastom?: A Report on the Ongoing Negotiation of Literacy and Identity in a Ni Vanuatu Community; Bridging the Gap: The Development of Appropriate Educational Strategies for Minority Language Communities in the Philippines
Description / Table of Contents:
Literacy and Language-in-Education Policy in Bidialectal Settings
Note:
Includes bibliographical references
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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