Language Planning from Practice to Theory examines and reviews the field of language
policy and planning. In the first section of the book language policy and planning definitions …

This text brings together two significant domains of educational practice: foreign language
education and critical pedagogy--linking them in a way that can help foreign language …

Well over thirty million people in the United States speak a primary language other than
English. Nearly twenty million of them speak Spanish. And these numbers are growing …

This book introduces pre-service and in-service foreign language teachers to the basic
concepts of critical educational study as applied to the sociological position occupied by …

This paper examines Nigeria's language policies in terms of (I) the historical, sociolinguistic,
political, educational, and ideological contexts in which they arose;(2) their impact on …

The 21st century provides unique sociolinguistic spaces that typify super-diversity,
globalization and movement, and alternation of languages to reflect social changes and …

Michel Foucault's concept of" archeological thinking" as a means of" making it possible to
think difference" is used in this article as an organizing framework for conceptualizing the …

That language planning should serve so many covert goals is not surprising. Language is
the fundamental institution of society, not only because it is the first human institution …

This volume offers the most comprehensive, up-to-date description of the wide array of
second language programs currently available to undergraduate students in the United …

A discussion of language focuses on the relationship between language learning and
culture learning. The first four chapters look at the cultural context of language learning …