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Date: 12-Oct-2004
From: Susan Barker < Susan.Barker at erlbaum.com >
Subject: Medium of Instruction Policies: Tollefson, Tsui (Eds)


	
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Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 09:36:22
From: Susan Barker < Susan.Barker at erlbaum.com >
Subject: Medium of Instruction Policies: Tollefson, Tsui (Eds)

Title: Medium of Instruction Policies
Subtitle: Which Agenda? Whose Agenda?
Publication Year: 2004
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
	   http://www.erlbaum.com/
	
Editor: James W. Tollefson
Editor: Amy B.M. Tsui

Hardback: ISBN: 0805842772 Pages: 312 Price: U.S. $ 69.95
Paperback: ISBN: 0805842780 Pages: 312 Price: U.S. $ 32.50


Abstract:

Medium of instruction policies in education have considerable impact not
only on the school performance of students and the daily work of teachers,
but also on various forms of social and economic (in)equality.

In many multiethnic and multilingual countries, the choice of a language
for the medium of instruction in state educational systems raises a
fundamental and complex educational question: what combination of
instruction in students' native language(s) and in a second language of
wider communication will ensure that students gain both effective
subject-content education, as well as the second-language skills necessary
for higher education and employment? Beyond this educational issue of
choice of language(s) of instruction, medium of instruction policies are
also linked to a range of important sociopolitical issues, including
globalization, migration, labor policy, elite competition, and the
distribution of economic resources and political power. The contributors to
this volume examine the tension between the educational agendas and other
social and political agendas underlying medium of instruction policies in
different countries around the world, and unravel the connections between
these policies and the related, critically important educational, social,
political, and economic issues.

Medium of Instruction Policies: Which Agenda? Whose Agenda? is intended for
scholars and specialists in education, language policy, sociolinguistics,
applied linguistics, and language teaching, and is intended for use in
graduate and advanced undergraduate courses on language education and
language policy.



Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics
                     Applied Linguistics
                     Second Language


Written In: English  (Language Code: ENG)
	
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