Language Planning and Student Experiences

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Language Planning and Student Experiences is written by Joseph Lo Bianco and published by Multilingual Matters. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1783090065 (ISBN 10) and 9781783090068 (ISBN 13).

This book is a timely comparison of the divergent worlds of policy implementation and policy ambition, the messy, often contradictory here-and-now reality of languages in schools and the sharp-edged, shiny, future-oriented representation of languages in policy. Two deep rooted tendencies in Australian political and social life, multiculturalism and Asian regionalism, are represented as key phases in the country’s experimentation with language education planning. Presenting data from a five year ethnographic study combined with a 40 year span of policy analysis, this volume is a rare book length treatment of the chasm between imagined policy and its experienced delivery, and will provide insights that policymakers around the world can draw on.