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Literature Education in the Asia-Pacific
Author: Chin Ee Loh
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-03-29
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 1351968807
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The continual rise of English as a global lingua franca has meant that English literature, both as a discipline and as a tool in ESL and EFL classrooms, is being used in varied ways outside the inner circle of English. This edited collection provides an overview of English literature education in the Asia-Pacific in global times, bringing to international attention a rich understanding of the trends, issues and challenges specific to nations within the Asia-Pacific region. Comprising contributions from Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Vietnam, the collection addresses the diversity of learners in different national, cultural and teaching contexts. In doing so, it provides insights into historical and current trends in literature education, foregrounds specific issues and challenges in policymaking and implementation, presents practical matters concerning text selection, use of literature in the language classroom, innovative practices in literature education, and raises pressing and important questions about the nature, purpose and importance of literature education in global times.
Language Planning and Policy in the Pacific
Author: Richard B. Baldauf
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 1853599212
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume covers the language situation in Fiji, The Philippines and Vanuatu explaining the linguistic diversity, the historical and political contexts and the current language situation including language-in-education planning, the role of the media, the role of religion, and the roles of non-indigenous languages. The authors are indigenous and/or have been participants in the language planning context.
Language Loyalty, Continuity and Change
Author: Rakhmiel Peltz
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Published: 2006-01-01
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 1853599026
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This short volume provides a comprehensive and synoptic view of Joshua A. Fishman's contributions to international sociolinguistics. The two integrative essays provide readers with the essential understandings of Fishmanian sociolinguistics and his contributions to Yiddish scholarship. An up-to-date comprehensive bibliography prepared by Gella Schweid Fishman, as well as Fishman's own concluding sentiments, complement the integrative essays.
English Language as Hydra
Author: Vaughan Rapatahana
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Published: 2012-06-22
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 1847697526
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In far too many places, the worldwide trade in English-language teaching, testing and publishing has become a self-perpetuating, self-congratulating, neocolonial monster ... a veritable multi-headed Hydra. Too often the English language industry aggressively promotes itself as some sort of “uplifting”, “essential”, “proper” or even “better” means of communication than any other language. Unfortunately, its relentless global outreach is taking place at the direct expense, and the active denigration, of local and regional languages – not to mention individual identities. English Language as Hydra brings together the voices of linguists, literary figures and teaching professionals in a wide-ranging exposé of this monstrous Hydra in action on four continents. It provides a showcase of the diverse and powerful impacts that this ever-evolving, gluttonous beast has had on so many non-English language cultures - as well as the surreptitious, drug-like ways in which it can infiltrate individual psyches.
Philippine English
Author: MA. Lourdes S. Bautista
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Published: 2008-11-01
Total Pages: 425
ISBN-13: 9622099475
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An overview and analysis of the role of English in the Philippines, the factors that led to its spread and retention, and the characteristics of Philippine English today.
Language, Youth and Identity in the 21st Century
Author: Jacomine Nortier
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-03-19
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 1316194280
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The language of young people is central in sociolinguistic research, as it is seen to be innovative and a primary source of knowledge about linguistic change and the role of language. This volume brings together a team of leading scholars to explore and compare linguistic practices of young people in multilingual urban spaces, with analyses ranging from grammar to ideology. It includes fascinating examples from cities in Europe, Africa, Canada and the US to demonstrate how young people express their identities through language, for example in hip-hop lyrics and new social media. This is the first book to cover the topic from a globally diverse perspective, and it investigates how linguistic practices across different communities intersect with age, ethnicity, gender and class. In doing so it shows commonalities and differences in how young people experience, act and relate to the contemporary social, cultural and linguistic complexity of the twenty-first century.
Philippine Journal of Linguistics
Philippine Journal of Education
Philippine national bibliography
