Book: Language centers of the world (fwd)

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LANGUAGE CENTRES: Their roles, functions and management
David Ingram, Griffith University

Language centres serve an important role in the development and
implementation of language policy and in supporting language teachers.
This book describes five language centres, the Centre for Information on
Language Teachers and Research (London), the European Centre for Modern
Languages (Graz), the Regional Language Centre (Singapore), the National
Foreign Language Center (NFLC, Washington, DC) and the Centre for
Applied Linguistics and Languages (CALL, Brisbane). These contrasting
centres provide the basis for a discussion of the roles, functions and
management of language centres and the challenges facing such centres
(and universities in general) arising from tensions between the pursuit
of academic excellence and the demands of commercialisation and economic
rationalism. The author holds a chair in applied linguistics in Griffith
University and has written extensively on language policy and its
implementation and on language assessment. He has established and
directed three language centres since the mid-1980s, including CALL
since 1990, and is an Adjunct Fellow of NFLC.

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