The Routledge International Handbook of Language Education Policy in Asia

This handbook reviews the language education policies of Asia, encompassing 30 countries sub-divided by regions, namely East, Southeast, South and Central Asia, and considers the extent to which these are being implemented and with what effect.

This must-have handbook offers a comprehensive survey of the field. It reviews the language education policies of Asia, encompassing 30 countries sub-divided by regions, namely East, Southeast, South and Central Asia, and considers the extent to which these are being implemented and with what effect.

The most recent iteration of language education policies of each of the countries is described and the impact and potential consequence of any change is critically considered. Each country chapter provides a historical overview of the languages in use and language education policies, examines the ideologies underpinning the language choices, and includes an account of the debates and controversies surrounding language and language education policies, before concluding with some predictions for the future.

Autorentext

Andy Kirkpatrick is Professor in the Department of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences at Griffith University, Australia.

Anthony J. Liddicoat is Professor in Applied Linguistics at the University of Warwick, United Kingdom.

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Notes on contributors

Part 1: Overview1. Language education policy in Asia: An overview
Andy Kirkpatrick and Anthony J. Liddicoat

2. Minority Language Learning in Mainland Southeast Asia
   David Bradley
3. L1-based multilingual education in the Asia and Pacific region and beyond: Where are we, and where do we need to go?
   Carol Benson

Part 2: Asia4. Language Policies in Education in the People's Republic of China
Anwei Feng and Bob Adamson

5. Language education policy in Hong Kong
   Anita Y.K. Poon
6. Educational Language Policy in Macau: Finding balance between Chinese, English and Portuguese
   Andrew Moody
7. Language education policy in Japan
   Nobuyuki Honna and Junko Saruhashi
8. Language Education Policies in South Korea
   Jihyeon Jeon
9. Language education policy in North Korea
   Jae Jung Song
10. Mongolia: Language Education Policy
    Phillip Marzluf and Myagmar Saruul-Erdene
11. Language education policy in Taiwan
    Li-ying Wu and Ken Lau

Part 3: South-East Asia

12. Language-in-Education Policy Development in the Philippines
    Catherine Young and Tony Igcalinos
13. Language education policy in Vietnam
    Xuan Nhat Chi Mai Nguyen and Van Huy Nguyen
14. Lao Language Policy
    Cliff Meyers
15. Language education policy in Cambodia
    Kimmo Kosonen
16. Language education policy in Thailand
    John Draper
17. Language Policy in Myanmar
    Patrick McCormick
18. Malaysia's Complex Language Policy Journey via Bahasa Melayu and English
    Saran Kaur Gil and Azianura Hani Shaari
19. Language Education Policy: Singapore
    Ritu Jain and Lionel Wee
20. Language education policy in Indonesia -a struggle for unity in diversity
    Michelle Kohler
21. Postcolonial language-in-education policy in globalised times: The case of Timor-Leste
    Kerry Taylor-Leech
22. Language Policy and Practice in Brunei Darussalam
    Noor Azam Haji-Othman, James McLellan and Gary Jones

Part 4: South Asia

23. Language policy in education in India
    Ajit K. Mohanty
24. Language Education Policy and Inequalities of Multilingualism in Nepal: Ideologies, Histories and Updates
    Prem Phyak and Laxmi Prasad Ojha
25. Language Policy in Bhutan
    Lhundup Dukpa
26. Mother Tongue Education Policy in Pakistan
    Tariq Rahman
27. Language in education policy in Bangladesh: A neoliberal turn?
    M. Obaidul Hamid and Arifa Rahman
28. Language Education Policy in Sri Lanka
    Indika Liyanage
29. From a monolingual to a multilingual nation: Analysing the language education policy in the Maldives
    Naashia Mohamed

Part 5: Central Asia

30. Language education policy in Afghanistan
    Brian Spooner and Senzil Nawid
31. Language Planning and Language Policy in Kazakhstan
    Timothy Reagan
32. Language-in-education policy in the Central Asian republics of Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan
    Anthony J. Liddicoat.

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