Language Planning and Student Experiences - Intention, Rhetoric and Implementation

Presenting data from a five year ethnographic study combined with a 40 year span of policy analysis, this volume is a rare book length treatment of the chasm between imagined policy and its experienced delivery, and will provide insights that policymakers around the world can draw on.

About the author

Joseph Lo Bianco is Professor of Language and Literacy Education at the University of Melbourne and a noted language planning scholar and researcher. He is currently President of Tsinghua Asian-Pacific Forum on Translation and Intercultural Studies and Past President of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.
Renata Aliani is an experienced researcher, programme manager and educator at the Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne.

Product details

• Authors: Renata Aliani, Joseph Lo Bianco, Joseph Lobianco
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.06.2013
• EAN: 9781783090037
• ISBN: 978-1-78309-003-7
• No. of pages: 164
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 210 mm x 9 mm
• Weight: 221 g
• Series: Bilingual Education & Bilingua
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system