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Book SynopsisThis book explores the difference between languages that children learn in the home and the languages valued by society and established as the medium of instruction in schools is an almost universal problem in educational systems. In this book, researchers discuss practice and theory in various parts of the world.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
1. Bernard Spolsky: Introduction
2. D. P. Pattanayak: Educational Use of the Mother Tongue
3. Melanie Mikes: Towards a Typology of Languages of Instruction in Multilingual Societies
4. M. N. Guboglo: Factors Affecting Bilingualism in National Languages and Russian in a Developed Socialist Society
5. Barry Mclaughlin: Multilingual Education: Theory East and West
6. Richard A. Benton: Schools as Agents for Language Revival in Ireland and New Zealand
7. Robert Phillipson, Tove Skutnabb-Kangas and Hugh Africa: Namibian Educational Language Planning: English for Liberation or Neo-colonialism?
8. J. J. Smolicz: National Language Policy in the Philippines
9. Christina Bratt Paulston: Linguistic Consequences of Ethnicity and Nationalism in Multilingual Settings
10. Tove Skutnabb-Kangas: Who Wants to Change What and Why - Conflicting Paradigms in Minority Education Research
11. Bernard Spolsky: Overcoming Language Barriers to Education in a Multilingual World
