Language Planning and Policy in Africa, Vol 1: Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique

Edited by: Richard B Baldauf Jr, Robert B Kaplan

Format:
Hardback
Related Formats:
Ebook(PDF)
ISBN:
9781853597251
Published:
Publisher:
Multilingual Matters
Number of pages:
288
Dimensions:
248mm x 168mm
Availability:
Available
Price: £69.95
Price: $99.95
Price: €84.95
US & Canada

All Other Locations

This volume covers the language situation in Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique and South Africa 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 have been participants in the language planning context.

Richard B. Baldauf, Jr. is Associate Professor of TESOL in the School of Education at the University of Queensland and a member of the Executive of the International Association of Applied Linguistics (AILA). He has published numerous articles in refereed journals and books. He is co-editor of Language Planning and Education in Australasia and the South Pacific (Multilingual Matters, 1990), principal researcher and editor for the Viability of Low Candidature LOTE Courses in Universities (DEET, 1995) and co-author with Robert B. Kaplan of Language Planning from Practice to Theory (Multilingual Matters, 1997) and Language and Language-in-Education Planning in the Pacific Basin (Kluwer, 2003).

Robert B. Kaplan is Emeritus Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of California. He has published numerous books and articles in refereed journals and written several special reports to government both in the US and elsewhere. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Annual Review of Applied Linguistics and is a member of the editorial board of the 1st and 2nd editions of the Oxford International Encyclopedia of Linguistics. Additionally, he edited the Oxford Handbook of Applied Linguistics. He has served as President of the National Association for Foreign Students Affairs, of TESOL, and of the American Association for Applied Linguistics.

Series Overview
Richard B. Baldauf Jr and Robert B. Kaplan: Language Policy and Planning in Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique and South Africa: Some Common Issues
Lydia Nyati-Ramahobo: The Language Situation in Botswana
Edrinnie Kayambazinthu: The Language Planning Situation in Malawi
Armando Jorge Lopes: The Language Situation in Mozambique
Nkonko M. Kamwangamalu: The Language Planning Situation in South Africa
Biographical Notes on Contributors

Postgraduate
« Back