Language Planning and Policy: Issues in Language Planning and Literacy

Anthony J. Liddicoat is Associate Professor in Applied Linguistics at the Research Centre for Languages and Cultures Education in the School of International Studies at the University of South Australia. His research interests include: language and intercultural issues in education, conversation analysis, and language policy and planning

• 1. Introduction: Literacy and Language Planning - Anthony J. Liddicoat 2. Language Planning for Literacy: Issues and Implications - Anthony J Liddicoat3. Early Literacy Policy: National and Local Instantiations - Lisa Patel Stephens 4. Language Planning and Literacy in Kenya: Living with Unresolved Paradoxes - Margaret Jepkirui Mutthwi5. Conceptions of Literacy in Canadian Immigrant Language Training - Ellen Cray and Pat Currie 6. Singapore's Literacy Policy and its Conflicting Ideologies - Catherine Chua 7. Rethinking Language Planning and Policy from the Ground Up: Refashioning Institutional Realities and Human Lives - Vaidehi Ramanathan 8. Legislating Literacy for Linguistic and Ethnic Minorities in Contemporary China - Minglang Zhao 9. Vernaculars in Literacy and Basic Education in Cambodia, Laos and Thailand - Kimmo Kosonen 10. Literacy in Pidgin and Creole Languages - Jeff Siegal 11. The Consequences of Vernacular (Il)literacy in the Pacific - Terry Crowley12. Literacy in a Dying Language: The Case of Kuot, New Ireland, Papua New Guinea - Eva Lindström 13. Vernacular Literacy in the Touo Language of the Solomon Islands - Michael Dunn 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 15. Bridging the Gap: The Development of Appropriate Educational Strategies for Minority Language Communities in the Philippines - Diane Dekker and Catherine Young 16. Literacy and Language-in-Education Policy in Bidialectal Settings - Andreas Papapavlou and Pavlos Pavlou

This collection serves as a valuable resource that demonstrates local language planning for literacy in action. This timely collection makes a useful contribution to the growing body of language planning literature and will serve as a useful reference to illustrate the complex connections between literacy and language planning.