Multilingual Australia

Multilingual Australia
Author: Michael G. Clyne
Publisher: Melbourne, Australia : River Seine Publications
Total Pages: 196
Release: 1982
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

Language in Australia

Language in Australia
Author: Suzanne Romaine
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 446
Release: 1991
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780521339834

Linguists and non-linguists will find in this volume a guide and reference source to the rich linguistic heritage of Australia.

Multilingualism in the Australian Suburbs

Multilingualism in the Australian Suburbs
Author: Ruth Fielding
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2015-04-25
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9812874534

This book introduces a framework for examining bilingual identity and presents the cases of seven individual children from a study of young students’ bilingual identities in an Australian primary school. The new Bilingual Identity Negotiation Framework brings together three elements that influence bilingual identity development – sociocultural connection, investment and interaction. The cases comprise individual stories about seven young, bilingual students and are complemented by some more general investigations of bilingual identity from a whole class of students at the school. The framework is explained and supported using the students’ stories and offers readers a new concept for examining and thinking about bilingual identity. This book builds upon past and current theories of identity and bilingualism and expands on these to identify three interlinking elements within bilingual identity. The book highlights the need for greater dialogue between different sectors of research and education relating to languages and bilingualism. It adds to the increasing call for collaborative work from the different fields interested in language learning and teaching such as TESOL, bilingualism, and language education. Through the development of the framework and the students’ stories in this study, this book shows how multilingual children in one school in Australia developed their identities in association with their home and school languages. This provides readers with a model for examining bilingual identity in their own contexts, or a theoretical construct to consider in their thinking on bilingualism, language and identity.

Multilingual Sydney

Multilingual Sydney
Author: Alice Chik
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019
Genre: English language
ISBN: 9780815379546

Through a selection of 18 multidisciplinary case studies on multilingualism in Sydney, Australia, this book examines how multilingualism permeates institutional and everyday practice in the city, raising important questions about what a 'multilingual city' can and should be.

Visualising Multilingual Lives

Visualising Multilingual Lives
Author: Paula Kalaja
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Total Pages: 431
Release: 2019-03-08
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 178892262X

Shortlisted for the 2020 BAAL Book Prize This book brings together empirical studies from around the world to help readers gain a better understanding of multilinguals, ranging from small children to elderly people, and their lives. The chapters focus on the multilingual subjects’ identities and the ways in which they are discursively and/or visually constructed, and are split into sections looking specifically at the multilingual self, the multilingual learner and multilingual teacher education. The studies draw on rich visual data, which is analysed for content and/or form and often complemented with other types of data, to investigate how multilinguals make sense of their use and knowledge of more than one language in their specific context. The topic of multilingualism is addressed as subjectively experienced and the book unites the current multilingual, narrative and visual turns in Applied Language Studies. It will be of interest to students and researchers working in the areas of language learning and teaching, teacher education and bi/multilingualism, as well as to those interested in using visual methods and narratives as a means of academic research.

Community Languages

Community Languages
Author: Michael G. Clyne
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 310
Release: 1991
Genre: Australia
ISBN: 9780521397292

Without even considering the 150 Aboriginal languages still spoken, Australia has an unparalleled mix of languages other than English in common usage, languages often described by the term 'community'. Drawing on census data and other statistics, this book addresses the current suitation of community languages in Australia, analysing which are spoken, by whom, and whereabouts. It focuses on three main issues: how languages other than English are maintained in an English speaking environment, how the structure of the languages themselves changes over time, and how the government has responded to such ethnolinguistic diversity. At a time of unprecedented awareness of these languages within society and a realisation of the importance of mutlilingualism in business, this book makes a significant contribution to understanding the role of community languages in shaping the future of Australian society.

Family Language Policy in the Polish Diaspora

Family Language Policy in the Polish Diaspora
Author: Piotr Romanowski
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2021-04-06
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 100037386X

This book explores language practices, beliefs and management across a group of Polish immigrant families in Australia, drawing on these case studies as a lens through which to unpack dynamics of Family Language Policy (FLP) and their implications for future research on FLP. The volume begins by outlining the historical context of Polish immigration in Australia, charting two key waves of Polish migration in the 20th century and the subsequent unfolding of issues around language and culture maintenance in these families. This discussion paves the way for exploring key themes of language socialization, language ideologies and heritage language maintenance and the affordances of FLP research in elucidating these dynamics at work in the lived experiences of a group of Polish immigrant families in Melbourne. The book highlights the importance of a triangulated approach, integrating qualitative and quantitative methods, in offering nuanced insights into parental approaches and children’s experiences of a bilingual upbringing and the wider impact of FLP on transnational families. Opening up avenues for future research on Family Language Policy and a better understanding of the language practices of specific communities in a globalised world, this book will be of interest to scholars in multilingualism, sociolinguistics and applied linguistics.

Australia's Language

Australia's Language
Author: Australia. Department of Employment, Education and Training
Publisher:
Total Pages: 152
Release: 1991
Genre: Aboriginal Australians
ISBN:

Goals; to improve spoken and written English skills of Aboriginal students and adults; provide funding for Aboriginal Language Initiatives Program, develop vernacular curriculum materials and assist in training in language education programs.

New Perspectives and Issues in Educational Language Policy

New Perspectives and Issues in Educational Language Policy
Author: Robert Leon Cooper
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2001
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9789027225610

This formidable selection of papers reflects the psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic underpinnings of the interface between language and education. Following an introduction that positions the field of educational linguistics historically and conceptually, the volume presents 15 contributions by leading scholars that cover the four areas most central to the field: - Language teaching, language learning and literacy (Widdowson, Bialistok, Cohen & Allison); - Language testing (Bachman, Davies, and Shohamy); - Multilingualism, minority languages and language planning (Bratt-Paulston, Fishman, Lambert, Amara, de Bot & van Els); - Language policy (Clyne, Tucker, Donato & Murday, McNamara & Lo Bianco, and Hornberger). New Perspectives and Issues in Educational Language Policy is published in honour of Bernard Dov Spolsky and reflects his impact on applied linguistics in general and educational linguistics in particular. The breadth and coverage makes this an indispensable title for future research in the field of educational linguistics.