Language Policy across the Curriculum

Abstract

Part 1 Language policy across the curriculum: the diverse social and cultural contexts of modern schools. Part 2 Language planning in education: two directions in the sociology of language language planning. Part 3 Fact gathering for language policies across the curriculum: larger scale LPAC research large scale research methods teacher attitudes and stereotypes small scale LPAC fact gathering. Part 4 Policy making at school level: school policy, organizational theory and the ethics of school management teacher's personal realities, participation and commitment school policy making as a language activity a policy about policy making applying the stages of a social epistemology to school policy development stages in policy making. Part 5 Language across the curriculum (LAC): the meaning and place of language across the curriculum LAC's focus - the role of language in learning the teacher's role in language across the curriculum working with the below average and with mainstreamed children changing teacher attitudes - professional development and LAC assessing competence and mother tongue testing the development of reading - of writing watching and moving - improvisation and role play shaping and viewing - the media and other creative arts oral language across the curriculum extending language awareness. Part 6 National language policies, language projects and LPACs: language minorities language problems and policy in a pluralist society - Australia a policy for multiculturalism and language - Canada a successful indigenous language struggle - New Zealand language policy in a multinational/multilingual state - the USSR the majority language in a national policy the role of the schools. Part 7 Bilingualism and second language teaching (SLT) across the curriculum: bilingualism and bilingual education approaches to bilingual schooling - majority first language speakers - minority first language speakers variable factors in bilingual programmes for minority children bilingualism and minority first language maintenance - policy issues second language teaching and learning school organization for SLT the cultural characteristic of SL minority groups approaches to teaching an SL - assessing SL proficiency resources and materials for SLT. Part 8 FLT FLT policy items communicative competence and FLT cultural studies across the curriculum. Part 9 Social justice issues and language policy: language, education and power critical language awareness bilingualism and social justice gender, language and education differential treatment. Part 10 Concluding summary - what an LPAC might contain.

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