Overview
An up-to-date overview of multilingual and multicultural policies in the Australian education system is given in Professor Michael Clyne's paper on how the Australians manage language diversity and second language programs. The other papers in the book (written by British academics from a variety of disciplines: language, education and sociology), are comments on the Australian situation and Professor Clyne's interpretation of it.Synopsis
An up-to-date overview of multilingual and multicultural policies in the Australian education system is given in Professor Michael Clyne's paper on how the Australians manage language diversity and second language programs. The other papers in the book (written by British academics from a variety of disciplines: language, education and sociology), are comments on the Australian situation and Professor Clyne's interpretation of it.
Booknews
A paper by Michael Clyne, director of the Language and Society Center at Monash University, provides a view of how multilingual and multicultural policy is developing in Australia and gives results of recent research. Other contributors from various disciplines comment on the Australian situation and Clyne's interpretation of it. Also available as vol. 4, no. 2 of the journal . Distributed by Taylor & Francis. No index. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.