Current Issues In Language Planning
Polity Editors: Robert B. Kaplan (University of Southern California), Richard B. Baldauf Jr. (University of Queensland) and Nkonko Kamwangamalu (Howard University)Bob and Dick are also editors of the book series Language Policy and Planning
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Volume: 5 Number: 4 Page: 438–454
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Promoting Diversity through Language-in-Education Policies: Focus on Australia and the European Union
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Anikó Hatoss
Centre for Language Learning and Teaching, University of Southern Queensland, Australia
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Promoting diversity has become a prominent goal in language-in-education policy discourse in two broad contexts. On the one hand, language policies take on the challenge of maintaining and developing de facto linguistic and cultural diversity through language acquisition planning; on the other hand, they portray themselves as active agents of social change and aim to develop positive cross-cultural attitudes through language education. This paper discusses these two main aspects of language-ineducation policies. The discussion is focused on the Australian and the European policy discourses. These two contexts offer an interesting point of comparison as they represent Western democracies with a highly multicultural and multi-ethnic population.
Keywords: language-in-education policy, Australian and European language policy, linguistic and cultural diversity, cross-cultural attitudes, minority languages
©2004 A. Hatoss
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