Global Perspectives on Language Education Policies [Paperback]

Presenting research on language policy and planning, with a special focus on educational contexts in which English plays a role, this book brings readers up-to-date on the latest developments in research, theory, and practice in a rapidly changing field. The diversity of authors, research settings, and related topics offers a sample of empirical studies across multiple language teaching and university contexts. The fifth volume in the Global Research on Teaching and Learning English series, it features access to both new and previously unpublished research in chapters written by TIRF Doctoral Dissertation Grant awardees and invited chapters by respected scholars in the field.

Foreword by Joseph Lo Bianco.  Preface  1. Introduction  Part 1: The Teacher as Language Planner and Policy Maker  2. Whither Mother-tongue (in) Education?: An Ethnographic Study of Language Policy in Rural Primary Schools in Pakistan  3. Agentic Responses to Communicative Language Teaching in Language Policy: An Example of Vietnamese English Primary Teachers  4. Examining Brazilian Foreign Language Policy and its Application in an EFL University Program: Teacher Perspectives on Plurilingualism  5. Refugee Women in the United States Writing Themselves into New Community Spaces  Part 2: Adoption or Adaptation of Educational Language Policies by/in Institutions  6. Policy Borrowing in University Language Planning: A Case of Writing Centers in Japan  7. Economic Markets, Elite Multilingualism, and Language Policy in Nepali Schools  8. Linguistic Diversity and the Politics of International Inclusion: Challenges in Integrating International Teaching Assistants at a University in the United States  9. Official and Realized Hiring Policy of Assistant Language Teachers in Japan