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1. Language Policies in Education

   Critical Issues, 2nd Edition

   Edited by James W. Tollefson

   How do language policies in schools create inequalities among learners? How do policies marginalize some students while granting privilege to others? How do language policies in education serve the interests of dominant groups within societies? How can linguistic minorities further their interests...

   Published August 24th 2012 by Routledge
2. Language Policy, Culture, and Identity in Asian Contexts

   Edited by Amy B.M. Tsui, James W. Tollefson

   Bringing together scholarship on issues relating to language, culture, and identity, with a special focus on Asian countries, this volume makes an important contribution in terms of analyzing and demonstrating how language is closely linked with crucial social, political, and economic forces,...

   Published October 10th 2006 by Routledge
3. Medium of Instruction Policies

   Which Agenda? Whose Agenda?

   Edited by James W. Tollefson, Amy B.M. Tsui

   Medium of instruction policies in education have considerable impact not only on the school performance of students and the daily work of teachers, but also on various forms of social and economic (in)equality. In many multiethnic and multilingual countries, the choice of a language for the...

   Published August 31st 2003 by Routledge
4. Language Policies in Education

   Critical Issues

   Edited by James W. Tollefson

   How do language policies in education serve the interests of dominant groups within societies? How do policies marginalize some students while granting privilege to others? How do language policies in schools create inequalities among learners? How can schools further the educational, social, and...

   Published June 30th 2001 by Routledge