Language Planning and Policy : Issues in Language Planning and Literacy

1. Introduction: Literacy and language planning Anthony J. Liddicoat; 2. Language planning for literacy: Issues and implications Anthony J Liddicoat; 3. Early literacy policy: National and local instantiations Lisa Patel Stephens (Lynch School of Education at Boston College); 4. Language planning and literacy in Kenya: Living with unresolved paradoxes Margaret Jepkirui Mutthwi (translation consultant, United Bible Societies, Kenya); 5. Conceptions of Literacy in Canadian Immigrant Language Training Ellen Cray and Pat Currie (Carleton University, Canada); 6. Singapore's literacy policy and its conflicting ideologies Catherine Chua (University of Queensland); 7. Rethinking Language Planning and Policy from the Ground Up: Refashioning Institutional Realities and Human Lives Vaidehi Ramanathan (University of California); 8. Legislating Literacy for Linguistic and Ethnic Minorities in Contemporary China Minglang Zhao (Dickinson College, USA); 9. Vernaculars in Literacy and Basic Education in Cambodia, Laos and Thailand Kimmo Kosonen (Payap University, Thailand); 10. Literacy in Pidgin and Creole Languages Jeff Siegal (University of New England, Australia); 11. The consequences of vernacular (il)literacy in the Pacific Terry Crowley; 12. Literacy in a Dying Language: The Case of Kuot, New Ireland, Papua New Guinea Eva Lindstrom (University of Stockholm, Sweden); 13. Vernacular Literacy in the Touo Language of the Solomon Islands Michael Dunn (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics); 14. Is it Aulua or Education Dressed up in Kastom?: A Report on the Ongoing Negotiation of Literacy and Identity in a Ni Vanuatu Community Martin Paviour-Smith (Massey University, New Zealand); 15. Bridging the Gap: The Development of Appropriate Educational Strategies for Minority Language Communities in the Philippines Diane Dekker and Catherine Young (SIL International, Philippines); 16. Literacy and Language-in-Education Policy in Bidialectal Settings Andreas Papapavlou and Pavlos Pavlou (University of Cyprus).