Current Issues in Language Planning <br>
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Call Deadline: 30-Jun-2012 <br><br>
Current Issues in Language Planning is announcing a Call for Papers for a <br>forthcoming issue on 'Language Planning and Medium of Instruction'. <br> <br>The use of a language of wider communication in place of or in addition to a <br>
local or national language as the medium of instruction is increasingly <br>becoming a common feature of language policy and planning in polities <br>across the world. This dominant aspect of language in education planning has <br>
its origin in the European colonization of Asian, African and South American <br>nations. Educating the colonized in the knowledge, values and norms of the <br>West through the colonial language was an ideological imperative which <br>
served the practical needs required for continuing colonial rule. The end of <br>colonial rule brought an opportunity for colonized nations to do away with <br>colonial languages and introduce local/national languages as medium of <br>
education. However, although initial attempts to switch to local languages <br>were made in a few polities, it was more common to adopt ex-colonial <br>languages as medium of education. In continuing with colonial languages in <br>
the post-colonial period, many polities were driven by three major discourses: <br>a) local/national languages were not modern or developed enough to take the <br>role of medium of instruction; b) colonial languages were a neutral choice in <br>
the context of ethnolinguistic conflicts; c) using the target language as <br>medium of instruction was an efficient model of second language pedagogy. <br>While such discourses are prevalent across polities, globalization and the <br>
global spread of English have created more bottom-up pressure for adopting <br>this language of wider communication as medium of instruction. In addition to <br>developing national language ability to participate in the global economy, <br>
English is used as medium of instruction to internationalize local/national <br>education and to attract overseas students which is a noteworthy feature of <br>more recent medium of instruction policy in many polities. <br>
The dominance of languages of wider communication in general and <br>English in particular as medium of instruction raises a number of educational, <br>linguistic, socio-economic, political and socio-cultural issues which have <br>
started receiving attention in the language planning literature. <br>This special issue of Current Issues in Language Planning aims to contribute <br>to this literature by inviting contributions on topics including but not limited to: <br>
- Medium of instruction at different levels and systems of education; <br>- Effectiveness and outcomes of medium of instruction policy; <br>- Medium of instruction and materials development / availability; <br>- Medium of instruction and bilingualism; <br>
- Medium of instruction and social and community pressure; <br>- Medium of instruction and national/social identity; <br>- Social consequences of medium of instruction policy and planning; <br>- Medium of instruction and internationalization of education; <br>
- Medium of instruction and local linguistic ecology; <br>- Medium of instruction and 'mother tongue' education; <br>- Medium of instruction and international schools; and <br>- Medium of education and implications for teacher education. <br>
<br>Researchers are invited to submit abstracts (250-300 words) to the Editor, <br>Prof. Richard B. Baldauf Jr, University of Queensland. <br>richard.baldauf<img src="http://linguistlist.org/images/address-marker.gif" align="absbottom"><a href="http://bigpond.com">bigpond.com</a> <br>
<br>Deadline for submission of abstracts: 30 June 2012. <br>Deadline for submission of final papers: 1 November 2012.<br><br><a href="http://linguistlist.org/issues/22/22-4411.html">http://linguistlist.org/issues/22/22-4411.html</a><br clear="all">
<br>-- <br>=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+<br><br> Harold F. Schiffman<br><br>Professor Emeritus of <br> Dravidian Linguistics and Culture <br>Dept. of South Asia Studies <br>University of Pennsylvania<br>
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305<br><br>Phone: (215) 898-7475<br>Fax: (215) 573-2138 <br><br>Email: <a href="mailto:haroldfs@gmail.com">haroldfs@gmail.com</a><br><a href="http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/">http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/</a> <br>
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