Language Policy and Planning in Universities

Anthony J. Liddicoat is Professor in the Centre for Applied Linguistics at the University of Warwick, UK, and Adjunct Professor in the School of Communication, International Studies and Languages at the University of South Australia. His research interests include language and intercultural issues in education, and language policy and planning.

• Introduction – Language policy and planning in universities: teaching, research and administration 1. Language policy, planning, and enactment: the necessity and empowering potential at the local level 2. English-medium instruction in Japanese universities: policy implementation and constraints 3. Language policies in Puerto Rican higher education: conflicting assumptions of bilingualism 4. Language policy and planning: challenges for Latin American universities 5. Language planning at a cross-border university in Swaziland: the case of teaching and learning, research and institutional administration 6. Examining the English language policy for ethnic minority students in a Chinese university: a language ideology and language regime perspective 7. Towards reconciliation through language planning for Indigenous languages in Canadian universities 8. Carving out institutional space for multilingualism in the world’s most multilingual region: the role of Linguistics at the University of the South Pacific 9. Academic literacy as language policy in community college developmental writing 10. Fractionating English language proficiency: policy and practice in Australian higher education 11. Language, identity, and citizenship in a U.S. University: immigrant English learners’ identity (re) positioning 12. Conflicting views on language policy and planning at a Colombian university 13. Learner autonomy in foreign language policies in Vietnamese universities: an exploration of teacher agency from a sociocultural perspective 14. University administrators as forced language policy agents. An institutional ethnography of parallel language strategy and practices at the University of Copenhagen