Language Planning and Student Experiences

Joseph Lo Bianco is Professor of Language and Literacy Education at the University of Melbourne and a noted language planning scholar and researcher. He is currently President of Tsinghua Asian-Pacific Forum on Translation and Intercultural Studies and Past President of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.Renata Aliani is an experienced researcher, programme manager and educator at the Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne.

• Introduction: Aims, Limitations and QuestionsChapter 1: Remaking a Nation through Language PolicyChapter 2: Australia’s Italian and JapaneseChapter 3: The Research Approach and the SchoolsChapter 4: Student SubjectivityChapter 5: Pushing Policy to be Real

This innovative book provides an excellent and critical overview of the intention, interpretation and implementation of Australian language policies. Educationalists and language policymakers in countries, like Japan, destined to depend on immigrants for a human power shortage, will find this book instructive and insightful.