Medium of Instruction Policies

Which Agenda? Whose Agenda?
Herausgeber: Tollefson, James W.; Tsui, Amy B. M.

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Produktbeschreibung

Medium of instruction policies in education have considerable impact not only on the school performance of students and the daily work of teachers, but also on various forms of social and economic (in)equality. In many multiethnic and multilingual countries, the choice of a language for the medium of instruction in state educational systems raises a fundamental and complex educational question: what combination of instruction in students' native language(s) and in a second language of wider communication will ensure that students gain both effective subject-content education, as well as the second-language skills necessary for higher education and employment? Beyond this educational issue of choice of language(s) of instruction, medium of instruction policies are also linked to a range of important sociopolitical issues, including globalization, migration, labor policy, elite competition, and the distribution of economic resources and political power. The contributors to this volume examine the tension between the educational agendas and other social and political agendas underlying medium of instruction policies in different countries around the world, and unravel the connections between these policies and the related, critically important educational, social, political, and economic issues. Medium of Instruction Policies: Which Agenda? Whose Agenda? is intended for scholars and specialists in education, language policy, sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, and language teaching, and is intended for use in graduate and advanced undergraduate courses on language education and language policy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 466g
• ISBN-13: 9780805842784
• ISBN-10: 0805842780
• Artikelnr.: 21000632

Autorenporträt

James W. Tollefson, Amy B.M. Tsui

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface. A.B.M. Tsui
J.W. Tollefson
The Centrality of Medium-of-Instruction Policy in Sociopolitical Processes. Part I: Minority Languages in English-Dominant States.S. May
Maori-Medium Education in Aotearoa/New Zealand. D.V. Jones
M. Martin-Jones
Bilingual Education and Language Revitalization in Wales: Past Achievements and Current Issues. T.L. McCarty
Dangerous Difference: A Critical-Historical Analysis of Language Education Policies in the United States. Part II: Language in Post-Colonial States.A.B.M. Tsui
Medium of Instruction in Hong Kong: One Country
Two Systems
Whose Language? A. Pakir
Medium-of-Instruction Policy in Singapore. S.K. Gill
Medium-of-Instruction Policy in Higher Education in Malaysia: Nationalism Versus Internationalization. I. Nical
J.J. Smolicz
M.J. Secombe
Rural Students and the Philippine Bilingual Education Program on the Island of Leyte. E. Annamalai
Medium of Power: The Question of English in Education in India. H. Alidou
Medium of Instruction in Post-Colonial Africa. Part III: Managing and Exploiting Language Conflict.V. Webb
Language Policy in Post-Apartheid South Africa. K.A. King
C. Benson
Indigenous Language Education in Bolivia and Ecuador: Contexts
Changes
and Challenges. J.W. Tollefson
Medium of Instruction in Slovenia: European Integration and Ethnolinguistic Nationalism. J.W. Tollefson
A.B.M. Tsui
Contexts of Medium-of-Instruction Policy.