Current Issues in Language Planning <br>
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Call Deadline: 05-Nov-2012 <br><br>
Language planning and multilingual education <br>Editors for this issue: Kerry Taylor-Leech & Tony Liddicoat <br> <br>Rapid globalisation and mass migration have ensured that ethnic, religious, <br>linguistic and cultural diversity now characterises most societies; in fact only <br>
a handful can be described as ethnolinguistically homogenous. Many <br>societies can now be characterised by the phenomenon known as super- <br>diversity (Vertovec, 2007), a term describing a scale of transnational <br>migration, sociocultural complexity and ethnolinguistic identification that has <br>
never been seen before. <br> <br>Yet relatively few language education policies have attempted to <br>accommodate multilingualism. Despite research evidence pointing to social <br>and cognitive benefits that accrue from multilingualism, most language <br>
education policies are oriented towards standard languages and tend to serve <br>the interests of dominant groups rather than those of minorities. In post- <br>colonial contexts, most policies have focused on the promotion of proficiency <br>
in the former colonial language(s) and/or a dominant local lingua franca in <br>formal schooling. <br> <br>Recent overviews of the field emphasise the distinction between macro, <br>meso and micro level planning activities and stress the importance of human <br>
agency in language policymaking and planning. Others distinguish between <br>top-down to bottom-up planning. This special issue hopes to bring together <br>contributions from researchers in different geographic and linguistic contexts <br>
to explore how various actors have responded to linguistic diversity in <br>education at macro, meso or micro levels and from top down or bottom up <br>perspectives. <br> <br>We invite papers that discuss language policy and planning responses to <br>
multilingualism in different educational settings. Contributions that make <br>critical evaluations of language policy and its implementation in any sector of <br>education in any part of the world are welcome, as are papers that deal with <br>
standard, non-standard, heritage, indigenous, community and immigrant <br>languages, minority and/or contact languages in education. Topics may <br>include but are not limited to: <br> <br>- Education policy and planning approaches to language maintenance and <br>
the promotion of multilingualism <br>- Policy and planning relating to multilingualism and multiliteracies <br>- Educational policy and planning in officially multilingual countries and/or <br>regions <br>- The consequences of policies privileging dominant language(s) as subjects <br>
and/or medium of instruction on multilingual and literacy education <br>- Intended and unintended consequences of policies for multilingual learners <br>- Language attitudes and ideologies among policymakers, social actors and <br>
stakeholders <br>- Teachers' responses to language policy treatments of multilingual learners <br>- The educational impacts of medium of instruction policies on multilingual <br>learners <br>- The educational impacts of institutional language policies on multilingual <br>
learners <br>- Education for all and other global strategies and their impacts on <br>multilingual learners <br>- Multilingual education policy and planning and language rights <br>- The role of supra-national organisations in promoting multilingualism in <br>
education. <br>- The policy treatment of minority/ indigenous, community or immigrant <br>languages <br>- How actors and agents are taking on the notion of super-diversity in <br>education language planning <br> <br>Vertovec, S. 2007. Super-diversity and its implications. Ethnic and Racial <br>
Studies 30, 6, pp. 1024-1054. <br> <br>Please submit abstracts to k.taylor-leech<img src="http://linguistlist.org/images/address-marker.gif" align="absbottom"><a href="http://griffith.edu.au">griffith.edu.au</a> <br>Deadline for abstracts 5 November 2012 <br>
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