Language, Identities and Education in Asia examines the issues of language, education, and identity in the multilingual Southeast Asian nations of Brunei, Malaysia and Singapore. The authors' main focus is the ways in which local institutional forces are affecting macro and micro-level language choices and the evolution of local identities in the face of increasing political and economic globalization.
The writer considers language, education and identity and the inter-relationships between these in the four Southeast Asian nations of Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore and looks at how government policies, in particular those that relate to languages, affect members of society. He considers the ways in which people are influenced and make choices about languages as a result of institutional policies, both at home and beyond. Each of the four main chapters is accompanied by an introduction to these nations linking them thematically, ethnically, historically and in other ways [ where appropriate] and discusses challenges, faced by these nations, with regard to the main themes of the volume.
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For sociolinguists, this volume provides an excellent overview of the dynamic and complex interactions between language education and nation building projects in a vastly multilingual part of the world. The insights and rich discussion in this volume are further evidence of the lively intellectual contribution that a community of like-minded professionals across this vast space is able to produce. (Joseph Lo Bianco, Journal of Sociolinguistics, Vol. 19, 2015)
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'Ambitious and comprehensive in scope, this book presents the most up-to-date coverage of the tensions, dilemmas and social injustice resulting from the convergence of nationalism, neo-internal colonialism and neoliberal globalization in the diverse geopolitical and linguistic landscapes of Southeast Asia. The authors, however, also remind us of the creative agency of local social actors and how they craft out spaces for developing local language-based education programmes in the region.' Professor Angel Lin, Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong
Introduction--P.G.Sercombe * Political, Educational and Socioeconomic Reasons for Language Shift in Multilingual Peninsular Malaya--M.K.David * Language Choices of Metropolitan Sino-Indians in the Klang Valley, Malaysia--M.K.David * Globalisation: Assserting Ownership over Local Linguistic and Cultural Identities--V.Saravanan * Reversing Language Shift: Multilingual Communities' Responses to Language Maintenance--V.Saravanan * Brunei Darussalam: Issues of Language, Identity and Education--P.G.Sercombe * Language, Identity and Education and the Penan in Brunei--P.G.Sercombe * Postscript--M.K.David * References * Index
Introduction--P.G.Sercombe * Political, Educational and Socioeconomic Reasons for Language Shift in Multilingual Peninsular Malaya--M.K.David * Language Choices of Metropolitan Sino-Indians in the Klang Valley, Malaysia--M.K.David * Globalisation: Assserting Ownership over Local Linguistic and Cultural Identities--V.Saravanan * Reversing Language Shift: Multilingual Communities' Responses to Language Maintenance--V.Saravanan * Brunei Darussalam: Issues of Language, Identity and Education--P.G.Sercombe * Language, Identity and Education and the Penan in Brunei--P.G.Sercombe * Postscript--M.K.David * References * Index
Bao Dat, Monash University, Australia Angela Cincotta-Segi, La Trobe University, Australia Rommel A. Curaming, Universiti Brunei Darussalam Maya Khemlani David University of Malaya, Malaysia Freddy Kirana Kalidjernih, University of Tasmania, Austral Tim Frewer, University of Sydney, Australia Christian Giordano, University of Fribourg, Switzerland Khin Khin, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia. Kimmo Kosonen, Payap University, Thailand Beatriz P. Lorente, University of Basel, Switzerland James McLellan, Universiti Brunei Darussalam Simon Musgrave, Monash University, Australia Phan Le Ha, University of Hawaii, US Kirk R. Person, SIL International Vu Hai Ha, Vietnam National University, Hanoi Lionel Wee, National University of Singapore
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