Overview
- Constitutes a unique attempt to bridge studies in language acquisition with studies of language planning
- Addresses the urgent question of how language policies affect the conditions for becoming and remaining multilingual
- Includes examples of language acquisition planning from different sociolinguistic settings in countries in Asia, Europe and America
Part of the book series: Language Policy (LAPO, volume 15)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Basic and Secondary Education
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Front Matter
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Higher Education
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Keywords
- language education policy
- language acquisition planning
- language acquisition in educational settings
- plurilingual society
- monolingual ideals
- sociolinguistic research
- multilingualism and language learning
- consultancy for public policy
- complexity theory in applied linguistics
- second and foreign language learners
- TESOL
About this book
In the sociopolitics of language, sometimes yesterday’s solution is tomorrow’s problem. This volume examines the evolving nature of language acquisition planning through a collection of papers that consider how decisions about language learning and teaching are mediated by a confluence of psychological, ideological, and historical forces. The first two parts of the volume feature empirical studies of formal and informal education across the lifespan and around the globe. Case studies map the agents, resources, and attitudes needed for creating moments and spaces for language learning that may, at times, collide with wider beliefs and policies that privilege some languages over others. The third part of the volume is devoted to conceptual contributions that take up theoretical issues related to epistemological and conceptual challenges for language acquisition planning. These contributions reflect on the full spectrum of social and cognitive factors that intersect with the planning of language teaching and learning including ethnic and racial power relations, historically situated political systems, language ideologies, community language socialization, relationships among stakeholders in communities and schools, interpersonal interaction, and intrapersonal development. In all, the volume demonstrates the multifaceted and socially situated nature of language acquisition planning.
Reviews
“As researchers, our explorations of LAP practices and discourses at the crossroads of other language planning activities, in additional geographical contexts and multilingual ecologies, focusing on a broader range of language learners, and making use of a diverse toolkit of research methodologies can also find much inspiration in this volume.” (Frances Kvietok Dueñas, Language Policy, Vol. 19, 2020)
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Language Policy and Language Acquisition Planning
Editors: Maarja Siiner, Francis M. Hult, Tanja Kupisch
Series Title: Language Policy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75963-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-75962-3Published: 20 September 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-09365-5Published: 26 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-75963-0Published: 22 May 2018
Series ISSN: 1571-5361
Series E-ISSN: 2452-1027
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 255
Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations
Topics: Language Education, Language Policy and Planning, Multilingualism, Educational Policy and Politics