Table of Contents

Language policy in a democratic South Africa, Stanley G.M. Ridge; language policy in Australasia, Michael Herriman; language policy in New Zealand, Richard A. Benton; languages and language policy in Britain, Linda Thompson et al; language policy in the United States, Thomas Ricento; language policies in Canada, Barbara Burnaby.

About the Author

Michael Herriman is director of the Centre for ESL and Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics in the University of Western Australia. He has conducted several governmental reviews of ESL in Australia and has been a member of government inquiry bodies reviewing the teaching of languages other than English and Multicultural Education. Barbara Burnaby is a professor in the Department of Adult Education and the Modern Language Centre at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education in Toronto, Canada. Her research focuses on ESL for adult immigrants and on English and Aboriginal languages in education for Aboriginal peoples in Canada.