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LANGUAGE EDUCATION LANGUAGE EDUCATION EDITED BY JILL BOURNE & EUAN REID First published in Great Britain and the United States in 2003 by Kogan Page Limited This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2005. “To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk.” A part from any fair dealing for the purposes of research or private study, or criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, this publication may only be reproduced, stored or transmitted, in any form or by any means, with the prior permission in writing of the publishers, or in the case of reprographic reproduction in accordance with the terms and licences issued by the CLA. Enquiries concerning reproduction outside these terms should be sent to the publishers at the undermentioned addresses: 120 Pentonville Road London N1 9JN UK www.kogan-page.co.uk 22883 Quicksilver Drive Sterling VA 20166–2012 USA The right of Euan Reid and Jill Bourne to be identified as the authors of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. © Euan Reid and Jill Bourne, 2005 British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A CIP record for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN 0-203-41670-8 Master e-book ISBN ISBN 0-203-44227-X (Adobe eReader Format) ISBN 0 7494 3613 1 (Print Edition) Contents List of contributors vi Series editors’ foreword ix Preface x PART I KEY ISSUES 1. Bilingual education Jim Cummins 3 2. Remedial or radical? Second language support for curriculum learning Jill Bourne 21 3. Mother tongue and mother tongue education Sjaak Kroon 35 4. The expansion of sign language education Carol A Padden 49 5. Foreign language education in context Michael Byram 63 6. Standard language education in transition Sigmund Ongstad 79 7. Initial literacy: extending the horizon Frances Christie 93 8. Adult literacy Mike Baynham 113 PART II LANGUAGE EDUCATION IN POLICY AND PRACTICE: REGIONAL AND NATIONAL CASE STUDIES 9. Language education in Japan: the multicultural challenge John C Maher and Akira Nakayama 131 v 10. Language education in the conflicted United States Carlos J Ovando and Terrence G Wiley 145 11. ‘Modern foreign languages’ across the United Kingdom: combating ‘a climate of negativity’ Joanna McPake 161 12. Language education in Australia: Italian and Japanese as symbols of cultural policy Joseph Lo Bianco 175 13. The languages of Spain and Spanish language education Clare Mar-Molinero 193 14. Language education in Russia Georgii Khruslov 207 15. Language education and ‘nation building’ in multilingual Malaysia Maya Khemlani David and Subra Govindasamy 219 16. Linguistic complexity and the Three Language Formula’: language education in India Amitav Choudhry 231 17. Language education in Brazil: a focus on raising attainment for all Luiz Paulo Moita-Lopes 245 PART III CITY CASE STUDIES 18. Hamburg Ingrid Gogolin 259 19. Singapore Anne Pakir 273 20. Cape Town Peter Plüddemann 287 Index 303 List of contributors Mike Baynham is currently Professor of TESOL at the University of Leeds, UK, where his publications and research focu