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Assimilation or Pluralism? Changing Policies for Minority Languages Education in Australia

Traces the effects on Australian language policy of a changing sociolinguistic situation--increasing multilingualism--and a weakening of a monolingual ideology. Analyzes the country' s emergence from an assimilationist past to its embracement of a more multicultural approach with special reference to young Cambodian-Australian's educational achievements that show the vital importance of school support for minority language literacy and students' subsequent professional advancement. (VWL)

• Author/Creator: Smolicz, Jerzy J., Secombe, Margaret J.
• Journal/Secondary Title: Language Policy
• Number: 1
• Volume: 2
• Year: 2003

This resource is cataloged under:

• Network/channel: NCCRESt: People: Students
• Subject: Cultural Pluralism
• Subject: Language Minorities
• Subject: Public Policy

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