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Multilingual language policy and school linguistic practice: globalization and English‐language teaching in India, Singapore and South Africa
Nancy H. Hornberger,Viniti Vaish +1 more
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This article explored the paradoxical role of and demand for English as a tool of decolonization for multilingual populations seeking equitable access to a globalizing economy, and depicted tensions between multilingualism and English across three national cases, at both policy and classroom level.Abstract:
This paper explores tensions in translating multilingual language policy to classroom linguistic practice, and especially the paradoxical role of and demand for English as a tool of decolonization for multilingual populations seeking equitable access to a globalizing economy. We take an ecological and sociolinguistic approach, depicting tensions between multilingualism and English across three national cases, at both policy and classroom level. Despite India's egalitarian Three Language Formula (TLF) of 1968, many Indian children are being educated in a language which is not their mother tongue. Singapore's bilingual education policy with English medium of instruction and mother tongues taught as second languages nevertheless leaves the linguistic capital of multilingual children who speak a pidginized variety of English called ‘Singlish’ out of the equation, since the school medium is standard English. South Africa's Constitution of 1993 embraces multilingualism as a national resource, raising nine major...read more
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Imagined communities: Reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism
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Masks of conquest: Literary study and British rule in India
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At the Crossroads of TESOL and English Medium Instruction
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A public policy perspective on English medium instruction in China
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Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
TL;DR: In this paper, Anderson examines the creation and global spread of the 'imagined communities' of nationality and explores the processes that created these communities: the territorialisation of religious faiths, the decline of antique kingship, the interaction between capitalism and print, the development of vernacular languages-of-state, and changing conceptions of time.
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Imagined communities: Reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism
TL;DR: In this paper, Imagined communities: Reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism are discussed. And the history of European ideas: Vol. 21, No. 5, pp. 721-722.
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The McDonaldization of Society
Stephen R. Sharkey,George Ritzer +1 more
TL;DR: McDonald's as an American and a global icon has been the long arm of McDonaldization as mentioned in this paper, from the Iron Cage to the fast-food factory and beyond Bureaucratization: Making Life More Rational The Holocaust: Mass-produced death Scientific Management: Finding the One Best Way The Assembly Line: Turning Workers Into Robots Levittown: Putting Up Houses? Boom, Boom, boom, Boom? Shopping Centers: Malling America McDonald's: Creating the "Fast-food Factory" McDonaldization and Contemporary Social Changes.
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Orientations in language planning
TL;DR: This article proposed three orientations for language planning in the United States: problem-solving, language-as-right, and language as-resource, and the first two currently compete for predominance in the international literature.
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The McDonaldization of Society
TL;DR: McDonald's has been a global icon for decades as mentioned in this paper and has been widely recognized as one of the most successful fast-food chains in the world, despite the fact that McDonald's has a reputation for irrationality of rationality.