Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Notes on Contributors; 1. Why educational language plans sometimes fail; 2. Singapore's E(Si)nglish-knowing bilingualism; 3. English in primary education in Malaysia: policies, outcomes and stakeholders' lived experiences; 4. Compulsory 'foreign language activities' in Japanese primary schools; 5. Shaping socialist ideology through language education policy for primary schools in the PRC; 6. Parents' perspectives on the effects of the primary EFL education policy in Taiwan.
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7. Primary English language education policy in Vietnam: insights from implementation8. Linguistic capital: continuity and change in educational language polices for South Asians in Hong Kong primary schools; 9. Beyond the façade of language planning for Nepalese primary education: monolingual hangover, elitism and displacement of local languages?; 10. Timor-Leste: sustaining and maintaining the national languages in education; 11. Success or failure of primary second/foreign language programmes in Asia: what do the data tell us?; Index.
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In foreign language education, decisions must be taken on what languages to teach, who will teach them, in which schools (i.e. all, only urban, only rural), in which grades, the number of hours a week, and the cost involved. This book explores the answers to these questions across a number of Asian polities. It illustrates why some of the efforts undertaken are successful and why some are not, why - despite significant investments of time and resources - some students do not seem to acquire the languages being taught, and why some teachers responsible for instruction in the designated foreign.
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Language Planning in Primary Schools in Asia.
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9780415520843
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