22.4411, Calls: Applied Linguistics/ Current Issues in Language Planning (Jrnl)

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Date: 04-Nov-2011
From: Pauline Bryant [pauline.bryant at anu.edu.au]
Subject: Current Issues in Language Planning


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Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2011 13:29:10
From: Pauline Bryant [pauline.bryant at anu.edu.au]
Subject: Current Issues in Language Planning

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Full Title: Current Issues in Language Planning 


Call Deadline: 30-Jun-2012 

Current Issues in Language Planning is announcing a Call for Papers for a 
forthcoming issue on 'Language Planning and Medium of Instruction'.

The use of a language of wider communication in place of or in addition to a 
local or national language as the medium of instruction is increasingly 
becoming a common feature of language policy and planning in polities 
across the world. This dominant aspect of language in education planning has 
its origin in the European colonization of Asian, African and South American 
nations. Educating the colonized in the knowledge, values and norms of the 
West through the colonial language was an ideological imperative which 
served the practical needs required for continuing colonial rule. The end of 
colonial rule brought an opportunity for colonized nations to do away with 
colonial languages and introduce local/national languages as medium of 
education. However, although initial attempts to switch to local languages 
were made in a few polities, it was more common to adopt ex-colonial 
languages as medium of education. In continuing with colonial languages in 
the post-colonial period, many polities were driven by three major discourses: 
a) local/national languages were not modern or developed enough to take the 
role of medium of instruction; b) colonial languages were a neutral choice in 
the context of ethnolinguistic conflicts; c) using the target language as 
medium of instruction was an efficient model of second language pedagogy. 
While such discourses are prevalent across polities, globalization and the 
global spread of English have created more bottom-up pressure for adopting 
this language of wider communication as medium of instruction. In addition to 
developing national language ability to participate in the global economy, 
English is used as medium of instruction to internationalize local/national 
education and to attract overseas students which is a noteworthy feature of 
more recent medium of instruction policy in many polities. 
        The dominance of languages of wider communication in general and 
English in particular as medium of instruction raises a number of educational, 
linguistic, socio-economic, political and socio-cultural issues which have 
started receiving attention in the language planning literature. 
This special issue of Current Issues in Language Planning aims to contribute 
to this literature by inviting contributions on topics including but not limited to:
-	Medium of instruction at different levels and systems of education;
-	Effectiveness and outcomes of medium of instruction policy; 
-	Medium of instruction and materials development / availability;
-	Medium of instruction and bilingualism; 
-	Medium of instruction and social and community pressure;
-	Medium of instruction and national/social identity;
-	Social consequences of medium of instruction policy and planning;
-	Medium of instruction and internationalization of education; 
-	Medium of instruction and local linguistic ecology; 
-	Medium of instruction and 'mother tongue' education;
-	Medium of instruction and international schools; and
-	Medium of education and implications for teacher education.

Researchers are invited to submit abstracts (250-300 words) to the Editor, 
Prof. Richard B. Baldauf Jr, University of Queensland. 
richard.baldauf at bigpond.com 

Deadline for submission of abstracts: 30 June 2012.
Deadline for submission of final papers: 1 November 2012.





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