Overview
- Focuses on the interaction between locally available languages in terms of policy and practice in language use and language learning
- Presents a relational view of language planning and language learning
- Provides a regional focus on a particularly dynamic geographical area, while identifying general principles that have relevance beyond the Asia-Pacific area
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Multilingual Education (MULT, volume 9)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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The Changing Dynamics Between English Language and Mother Tongues in Asian Contexts
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Asian Languages in Australia: The Challenges of Teaching, Learning and Assessment
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Tensions in the Linguistic Space
Keywords
- Asian languages in Australia
- Chinese language learning
- Chinese teaching in the Australian classroom
- English in Malaysia
- English in Singapore
- English language and mother tongues in Asian contexts
- English language learning
- Global Englishes
- Japanese language education in Australia
- Language Policy Asia Pacific
- Language culture identity
- Learning Indonesian in Australia
- World Englishes
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Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Dynamic Ecologies
Book Subtitle: A Relational Perspective on Languages Education in the Asia-Pacific Region
Editors: Neil Murray, Angela Scarino
Series Title: Multilingual Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7972-3
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-7971-6Published: 27 January 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0095-3Published: 17 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-7972-3Published: 13 January 2014
Series ISSN: 2213-3208
Series E-ISSN: 2213-3216
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 233
Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations
Topics: Language Education, Educational Policy and Politics, Applied Linguistics