Multilingual, globalizing Asia
Subtitle: implications for policy and education
By: guest editors, Lisa Lim, Ee-Ling Low ; editor, Susanne Niemeier
Contributors: International Association of Applied Linguistics
Series: AILA review -- v. 22; AILA review -- v. 22.
Publisher: John Benjamins Pub. Co.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 130
ISBN-13: 9789027239945
Subjects: Multilingualism; Language policy; Globalization; Language and languages; Study and teaching
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The plurilingual tradition and the English language in South Asia / Suresh Canagarajah; title: Language as a problem of development : ideological debates and comprehensive education in the Philippines / T. Ruanni F. Tupas; title: Not plain sailing : Malaysia's language choice in policy and education / Azirah Hashim; title: Beyond fear and loathing in SG : the real mother tongues and language policies in multilingual Singapore / Lisa Lim; title: Towards 'biliteracy and trilingualism' in Hong Kong (SAR) : problems, dilemmas and stakeholders' views / David C.S. Li; title: English in China : convergence and divergence in policy and practice / Anwei Feng; title: The teaching of English as an international language in Japan : an answer to the dilemma of indigenous values and global needs in the expanding circle / Nobuyuki Hino; title: Multilingual Asia : looking back, looking across, looking forward / Paul Bruthiaux.