Language Policies and the Politics of Language Practices

This edited volume consists of chapters celebrating the career of scholar Sjaak Kroon, who has produced ground-breaking work in the field of ethnography of education, immigrant minority language teaching and language politics. The chapters cover the use of immigrant minority languages in education and the development of policies at all levels and across the globe in this sometimes over-policed field. It particularly focuses on language policy analysis in which both the top-down institutional and the bottom-up ethnographic dimensions are blended, and in which globalization is the main macro-perspective. The chapters describe sensitive tools for investigating, unravelling and understanding the grey space connecting formal language policies to informal politics and practices of language on the ground.

Provides an integrated ethnographic approach to the study of language policy Includes a geographical spread of case studies avoiding a Euro-centric perspective Outlines the longitudinally development of a field

Inhalt

1. Introduction to Language Policies and the Politics of Language Practices.- 2. Sociolinguistic re-stratification in the online-offline nexus: Trump's viral errors.- 3. L2 learning while doing togetherness on You Tube: Exploring the role of a socio-technological platform in an asylum seeking centre.- 4. Colonial and Missionary Contributions in Tigrinya Reading Instruction in Eritrea.- 5. The Cuban literacy programme in Timor-Leste: 'magic' on the blackboard.- 6. Assessing Multilingualism at School.- 7. Creating Quarter for Doing Things with Language.- 8. Teachers in Training and the Policing of Language Variation.- 9. Preach or practise? Preach and practice! Sjaak Kroon's contributions to language practices and models for language policy.- 10. Afterword: The Kroonian paradigm: Sjaak Kroon's distinctive style of language work.