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Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: Literacy and language planning - Anthony J. Liddicoat (University of South Australia) 2. Language planning for literacy: Issues and implications - Anthony J Liddicoat 3. Early literacy policy: National and local instantiations - Lisa Patel Stephens (Lynch School of education at Boston College) 4. Language planning and literacy in Kenya - living with unresolved paradoxes - Margaret Jepkirui Mutthwi (translation consultant! United Bible Societies! Kenya) 5. Conceptions of Literacy in Canadian Immigrant Language Training - Ellen Cray and Pat Currie (Carleton University!Canada) 6. Singapore's literacy policy and its conflicting ideologies - Catherine Chua (University of Queensland) 7. Rethinking Language Planning and Policy from the Ground Up: Refashioning Institutional Realities and Human Lives - Vaidehi Ramanathan (University of California) 8. Legislating Literacy for Linguistic and Ethnic Minorities in Contemporary China - Minglang Zhao (Dickinson College! USA) 9. Vernaculars in Literacy and Basic Education in Cambodia! Laos and Thailand - Kimmo Kosonen (Payap University! Thailand) 10. Literacy in Pidgin and Creole Languages - Jeff Siegal (University of New England! Australia) 11. The consequences of vernacular (il)literacy in the Pacific - Terry Crowley 12. Literacy in a Dying Language: The Case of Kuot! New Ireland! Papua New Guinea - Eva Lindstrom (University of Stockholm! Sweden) 13. Vernacular Literacy in the Touo Language of the Solomon Islands - Michael Dunn (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics) 14. Is it Aulua or Education Dressed up in Kastom?: A Report on the Ongoing Negotiation of Literacy and Identity in a Ni Vanuatu Community - Martin Paviour-Smith (Massey University! New Zealand) 15. Bridging the Gap: The Development of Appropriate Educational Strategies for Minority Language Communities in the Philippines - Diane Dekker and Catherine Young (SIL International! Philippines) 16. Literacy and Language-in-Education Policy in Bidialectal Settings - Andreas Papapavlou and Pavlos Pavlou (University of Cyprus) ...
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Anthony J. Liddicoat is Associate Professor in Applied Linguistics at the Research Centre for Languages and Cultures Education in the School of International Studies at the University of South Australia. His research interests include: language and intercultural issues in education, conversation analysis, and language policy and planning
