Language Planning and Policy: Issues in Language Planning and Literacy

✍ Scribed by Anthony J. Liddicoat (editor)

• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 281
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ 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
Vernaculars in Literacy and Basic Education in Cambodia, Laos and Thailand
Literacy 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
Literacy and Language-in-Education Policy in Bidialectal Settings