Gibson Ferguson is a Lecturer in the Department of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Sheffield, where he convenes the MA programme in applied linguistics.
Authors Preface
Acknowledgements
1 The discipline of language planning: a historical overview
1.1 The early years of the discipline of language planning
1.2 Criticisms of language planning
1.3 The resurgence of language planning and language policy
1.4 Changes in the discipline of language planning
1.5 Conclusion
2 The practice of language planning: an overview of key concepts
2.1 Language, nations and nationalism
2.2 The role of language planning in the construction of national languages and nations
2.3 Language planning in education
3 Educational and political dimensions of bilingual education: the case of the United States
3. I The context of bilingual education in the United States
3.2 Bilingual education in the United States: educational research and pedagogy
3.3 The politics of bilingual education in the United States
3.4 Conclusion
4 Minority languages and language revitalisation
4.1 Language endangerment: a brief overview
4.2 The theory and practice of language revitalisation
4.3 Language planning and language revitalisation: a case study of Welsh and Breton
4.4 Conclusion: implications of the Welsh/Breton case study
5 The global spread of English: cause, agency, effects and policy responses
5.1 Cause and agency in the global spread of English
5.2 Effects of the global spread of English
5.3 Conclusion: implications of the global spread of English for English language teaching
6 New Englishes and teaching models: the continuing debate
6.1 Sociolinguistic contexts of the global use of English
6.2 Defining the New Englishes
6.3 The genesis of New Englishes
6.4 New Englishes and models for teaching
6.5 A lingua franca coda
7 Language education policy and the medium of instruction issue in post-colonial Africa
7.1 Current policies on media of instruction: articulating the problem
7.2 Changing the media of instruction: constraints on policy
7.3 The medium of instruction issue and the role of the applied linguist
Discussion questions, exercises and further reading
References
Index